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CheapTickets was founded in 1986 in Honolulu, Hawaii, by Michael and Sandra Hartley when inter-island carrier Mid Pacific Air gave 3,000 tickets to Hartley's employer at the time, advertising firm Regency Media, as payment for its services at the time Regency closed its Honolulu branch.
New York City's Walk-In Store. The StubHub online platform facilitates ticket resale, [7] [62] as well as directly issuing tickets on behalf of event organizers for live entertainment, [63] also offering features for finding and planning events. [64] August E. Grant and Jennifer H. Meadows describe StubHub as a "clearinghouse for ticket sales."
Tickets sold through an online ticket brokering service may or may not be authorized by the official seller. Generally, the majority of trading on ticket brokering websites concerns itself with tickets to live entertainment events whereby the primary officially licensed seller's supply has been exhausted and the event has been declared "sold-out".
Viagogo was founded in 2006 in London as a secondary ticketing marketplace by Eric Baker, the co-founder of US-based StubHub. [5] [12] With sections established to provide an online marketplace for sports, music, theatre and comedy tickets, the company's launch included official partnerships with Chelsea FC and Manchester United FC, [5] with the sports clubs sharing in the commission revenue ...
By Doyinsola Oladipo. NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S.-based travel companies, from Marriott International to Booking Holdings are trimming their budgets and workforce ahead of next year as falling ...
Critics of the industry compare the resale of tickets online to "ticket touting," "scalping," or a variety of other terms for the unofficial sale of tickets directly outside the venue of an event. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw the emergence of online ticket brokering as a lucrative business.
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Ticketron, Inc., doing business as Ticketron.com, is an American ticket sales company established in 2017. The original Ticketron, Inc., active the 1960s until 1990, was a computerized event ticketing company that was the industry leader until overtaken by Ticketmaster.