All posts belonging to the Winter Olympics tag can be found in the list below.
The Olympics should embrace the ticketing resale market if it wants to avoid empty seats at its major events, according to business expert Christopher Balding. Poor attendances plagued the Winter O...
Tags: Empty Seats, IOC, Pyeongchang 2018, Resale, Restrictions, Winter OlympicsAround 94 per cent of tickets for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics have now been sold as the competition hits the half way mark. Around 1,068,000 tickets have been sold to date, according to Su...
Tags: Lunar New Year, Olympics, Pyeongchang 2018, Sales, Sales Target, South Korea, Winter OlympicsPyeongchang 2018 has set a marker as the most technology-intensive Olympics ever, with facial recognition ticketing, cashless wearables, 5G, AR and robots among the innovations at this year’s Winter...
Tags: 5G, AR, Cashless, Facial Recognition, Fan Experience, Olympics, Pyeongchang 2018, Robots, South Korea, Technology, VR, Wearable, Winter OlympicsOrganisers for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have shifted more than two thirds of tickets with less than three weeks until the Opening Ceremony. Despite long-term concerns about attendance d...
Tags: Alpine Skiing, Attendance, opening ceremony, Pyeongchang 2018, Sales, South Korea, Winter OlympicsATPI Sports Events has targeted a gold medal year following the Pyeongchang Olympics after an “exceptional” 2017. The global travel management and events company is preparing support to a host ...
Tags: ATPI Sports Events, Hospitality, Pyeongchang 2018, Travel, Winter OlympicsSeoul’s metropolitan government has purchased 42,000 tickets for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to donate to low-income families in the South Korean capital. An additional 20,000 passes to ...
Tags: Donate, Free Tickets, Pyeongchang, Pyeongchang 2018, Seoul, Winter OlympicsChina has given a boost to 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organisers by ending its ban on sales of online tourist group packages to South Korea. The nine-month group travel ban had a major impact...
Tags: China, Pyeongchang 2018, South Korea, Tourism, Travel Ban, Winter OlympicsOrganisers of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics are aiming to sell more than 90 per cent of the 1.07 million available tickets prior to the start of the event. Christophe Dubi, International Oly...
Tags: IOC, LOC, opening ceremony, Pyeongchang 2018, Sales, South Korea, Winter OlympicsMore than half of the tickets to the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang have been sold with just over two months to go before the international event kicks off. In spite of slow moving sales figures...
Tags: KTX, LOC, Pyeongchang, Pyeongchang 2018, Sales, South Korea, Winter OlympicsPayment services company Visa has introduced wearable payment devices for fans attending next year’s winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Visa is the exclusive payment...
Tags: Payment Technology, Pyeongchang, Pyeongchang 2018, Technology, Visa, wearables, Winter Olympics
