Event Ticketing Done Right
Choice Group Asia, a media company with a focus on expatriate communities in Thailand, has added B-Concept Media Entertainment Group’s ticketing platform, TixTaQ, as its partner. Choice Group owns expat community website ASEAN NOW and brands such as Inspire Bangkok, an e-magazine, and Pattaya. Dan Cheeseman, Choice Group Asia managing director, commented that adding a …
Theatres across the UK have struggled over the last two years due to the pandemic, which brought with it closures, capacity restrictions and of course, a lack of confidence from traditional, regular theatregoers who are worried about catching COVID-19. Just last week, the UK’s Royal National Theatre announced that its income was almost halved during …
The Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA) and campaign group #WeMakeEvents have released results from a survey, detailing the global impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on aspects such as work force and equipment. Around 1,948 respondents completed the survey for the trade association between November 1 and December 21 and included businesses in the …
British organisation LIVE, which describes itself as the collective voice of the live music and entertainment industry, has found that the perfect mixture of COVID-19 and Brexit has already resulted in a quarter of live music shows being cancelled in the first quarter of 2022. Some 26% of UK shows have already been cancelled and …
Ticketek New Zealand has integrated its mobile ticketing technology with COVID check-in and vaccination status apps, allowing event goers to enter venues safely and without delay. The integrated solution will also allow fans to verify their vaccination status easily with a few taps on their mobile, while meeting the requirements of the COVID-19 Protection Framework. …
Data analysis by sports marketing agency Two Circles has found that sports attendances in the UK between September and November last year reached 20.2 million – two million more than the equivalent period in 2019. A total of 35.2 million people attended sports events in the UK in 2021. The figure was reached despite the …
Adele fans have until mid-February to claim their refund for tickets to the singer’s cancelled Las Vegas residency, according to reports. Last week, Adele left some fans feeling frustrated after cancelling her shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace just 24 hours before the first concert was due to start. The concert series, Weekends with …
The US-based National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) has said that independent venues across the country are facing no-show rates of almost 50%. A NIVA representative made the claim in a US House Small Business Committee hearing, called ‘The Power, Peril, and Promise of The Creative Economy’. The organisation was originally formed in March 2020 during …
Ireland’s sports clubs and stadiums will receive a major €72m (£60.3m/$81.5m) ticket boost over the next year, after capacity limits were removed for events. Most of the restrictions that were in place due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have been removed in the country, with Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin announcing that capacity limits for …
New Zealand has moved to its ‘red’ level of restrictions following an outbreak caused by the Omicron variant of COVID-19. The country uses the ‘traffic light’ system to detail its restrictions to limit the spread of infection. Moving to ‘red’ means that both indoor and outdoor event attendances are limited to 100 people in a …