London 2012 Olympics Tickets Tours Hotels: 2 Million Register for Summer Olympics Tickets

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As Spyns clients gear up for the London 2012 summer games, our London package clients can rest assured there will be plenty of tickets going around. Two million people have signed up for tickets for the London 2012 Olympics, chief executive Paul Deighton said on Christmas Day. Organisers are steeling themselves for the "mind-boggling" task of masterminding the ticket sales, as well as planning and managing seats for the 8.8 million tickets, which are vital to raising £2 billion from the private sector to stage the Games. The London 2012 organisation needs to get 25% of its revenue from ticket sales. London 2012 tour operators like Spyns will purchase tickets through the regular channels and then via re-sales of tickets through British consolidators.

The 6.6 million tickets for the public go on sale in March and, according to Deighton: "The sheer scale of this is mind-blowing. Just the operational stuff is mind-blowing." The real pressure will come when the application system goes live in what London 2012 chairman Lord Coe has described as the "daddy of all ticketing strategies". Mr Deighton said: "One of the key things for us in March is to make sure that things go smoothly. Making sure that everyone understands there is no advantage in submitting applications on the day.

"With two million people (on the database now), and probably nearer 2.5 million by March, it is also about making sure they are transferred into the ticketing system. "It is a year of extraordinary demands in getting ready for the Games and in terms of operational delivery. "Don't forget most of our venues are not yet built. Work is being done on how many games of volleyball are in one session, how many television channels there will be and where are the televisions going to go. And all this is given that we still have to get our licences.

"The showjumping venue in Greenwich and the beach volleyball venue in Horse Guards is just a diagram on a page at the moment and we are figuring out if it is A4 or A3. We have to figure out how many seats there are. e (London 2012) have been around for five years now and this process (ticket sales) is really an important part of a project."