Ticketing center of Beijing Organizing Committee of Olympic
Games (BOCOG) announced Friday to give applications on Oct. 30 the
priority.
It means that the center will firstly deal process applications
from people who registered authentic ID information at any Bank of
China outlets or the Ticketing Call Center on October 30th.
According to a statement released by the BOCOG, The Bank of
China outlets and the Ticketing Call Center will contact every
individual who on October 30th registered with valid ID information
and contact numbers from November 24th to 26th.
These applicants can submit ticket applications and payments by
the time of 5:00 p.m. on November 30, rather than waiting for a
random draw.
The organizers had kicked off the sale of the second batch of
Olympic tickets at the end of last month, but the Oct. 30 sales on
a first come, first-serve basis was suspended after the booking
system crashed due to overwhelming demand.
Only 43,000 tickets were sold last week before the sale windows
were shut off.
Olympic ticket sales will resume next month and tickets will be
allocated by a random draw. The first batch of 1.6 million tickets
were allocated by lottery earlier this year.
A total of seven million tickets for the Aug. 8-24 Games are
available to the general public with nearly three quarters reserved
for domestic sales.
(Xinhua News Agency November 24, 2007)