(BEIJING, April 15) -- More than seven million very affordable tickets
are now on sale for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Beijing Organizing
Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) announced today. About 75%
of the tickets will be sold domestically and the rest will be available to the
overseas public.
Late last year, BOCOG announced that ticket prices for the Games will be in
keeping with its efforts to host Games accessible to the broadest spectrum of
people.
Anticipating a high level of demand, BOCOG Executive Vice President and
Secretary General Wang Wei reiterated that the ticketing process will be
conducted in the most efficient, fair and open manner possible and will follow
internationally-accepted practices.
BOCOG will initiate a three-phased ticketing process for domestic sales. In
each phase, residents on the Chinese mainland will be able to order tickets
through the official ticketing website (http://tickets.beijing2008.com), calling the BOCOG ticketing
call center (+86-10-952008), or through designated Bank of China branches.
For overseas sales, the process will be determined in each country and
territory by its National Olympic Committee and its ticketing
agent.
