About 1.85 million tickets for the 2008 Olympic Games will go on sale as the second round of booking starts this week.

Rong Jun, head of BOCOG’s ticketing center, said, ‘The tickets will be sold on the ‘first come, first serve’ basis in this stage.’
Rong said that each person is allowed to buy a maximum of 50 tickets, while a limit of two tickets at most is applied for the high-demand events.

Excluding those reserved for the Olympic Family, sponsors and rights-holding broadcasters, more than seven million tickets are available for sale, with about 40% being reserved for domestic sale.

According to BOCOG, the 63,000 tickets to the opening and closing ceremonies at the 91,000-seat National Stadium, dubbed the ‘Bird’s Nest’, and over two million tickets for sports events were sold out during the first stage between April and August this year.

To make the Olympics affordable to average Chinese residents, about 58% of the tickets are priced at RMB100 (about $13.3) or below, and 14% will be reserved for Chinese students for RMB10 or less.

Income from ticket sales is expected to reach about $140 million and BOCOG is confident of reaching the target.
Source: China View