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The organizers of the Paris-2024 Olympic Games detailed on Monday the operation of the ticket office, which is intended to be simplified and offers 10 million tickets, with a first phase of sales which will begin on December 1 with a draw.
It’s getting closer! Three days before the draw to obtain the first tickets for the Paris Olympics in 2024, the organizers detailed, Monday, November 28, the device and the procedure to follow to obtain the precious sesames.
“It’s an important moment, which makes the Olympics concrete. There must be as many people as possible who come”, explains Paris-2024, which chose the Eiffel Tower as the setting to present the device on Monday.
Beyond this important step, ticketing is a major challenge with nearly 1.2 billion euros in expected revenue, almost a third of the budget of the Organizing Committee (Cojo). This overall amount is also likely to be revised upwards, as the organizers recently announced without being able to quantify it precisely.
Specifically, from 1is December at 11 a.m., people wishing to buy tickets will have two months (until January 31, 2023) to register for the draw on a single site: tickets.paris2024.org. “It’s not a speed race,” Paris-2024 general manager Étienne Thobois explained on Monday.
Once registered, you will have to “watch your emails carefully”, from the beginning of February 2023, warned Étienne Thobois. For the lucky ones, it is actually in their mailbox that a letter will notify them of their sales window, which will take place from February 15 to March 15.
A 100% digital ticket office
The members of Club Paris 2024 – nearly one million according to the Cojo on this date – will be able to benefit from the first four days to choose their tickets, from February 15 to 19. All successful applicants will be given a 48-hour slot to compose their Olympic three-session packs for all sports except for surfing in Tahiti, which has no ticket office. The limit is set at six tickets per session and a maximum of 30 tickets.
This sale by “pack”, is a “novelty”, explains Paris-2024, which should theoretically “fluidify” access, and which allows “nearly sixty million combinations”, assured Étienne Thobois.
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Nearly 80% of the sessions will be open for sale, the remaining 20% being made up of tickets for highly demanded finals (basketball, 100m in athletics, etc.). The ticket office will be entirely digital to avoid fraud as much as possible.
The promise of “Games accessible to all”, as Cojo boss Tony Estanguet has often repeated, will result in a first access price of 72 euros for a pack of three sessions (i.e. 24 euros per ticket). For the wealthiest, the most expensive pack will amount to 1,150 euros.
“Half of the tickets on sale will be at 50 euros and less”
“Half of the tickets on sale will be 50 euros or less, it’s very important for us,” recalled Tony Estanguet on Monday.
Nearly 100,000 tickets will also be financed by the Cojo to give access to the Olympics to a public “who is not lucky enough to be able to afford them”, assured Tony Estanguet. There will also be the option for buyers to donate tickets while shopping.
In total, nearly three million tickets will sell during this first sales phase out of the 10 million available for the Olympic Games (3.4 million for the Paralympic events).
For those who have not been lucky enough to be drawn, a second phase of sales, but this time individually, will begin in May 2023, again with a draw. Tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies will also be available for sale during this second phase. And finally, at the end of 2023, a last chance will be offered to try to come to the sites of the Olympic Games, with a final phase of unit sales.
With AFP
