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Percy Tucker (10 July 1928 – 29 January 2021) was a South African ticket booking agent and author. He launched the first electronic theatre booking system in the world in 1971. [1] He was regarded as a pioneer in the entertainment industry of South Africa. He was also nicknamed as South Africa's ticket master. [2]
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. In 1990, the majority of Ticketron's assets and business were sold and the ...
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.
The MARS-1 train ticket reservation system was designed and planned in the 1950s by the Japanese National Railways' R&D Institute, now the Railway Technical Research Institute, with the system eventually being produced by Hitachi in 1958. [6] It was the world's first seat reservation system for trains. [7]
The former AFC barrier gates at Southern Cross station in the Melbourne Metcard AFC System. An automated fare collection (AFC) system is the collection of components that automate the ticketing system of a public transportation network – an automated version of manual fare collection. An AFC system is usually the basis for integrated ticketing.
Following the Tickets.com acquisition in 1999, the entire company was rebranded as Tickets.com. [2] In November 1999 Tickets.com made an IPO led by Morgan Stanley and its Internet analyst Mary Meeker , which raised $75 million, with the price rising 60% on its first day of trading. [ 3 ]
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ClickBus is a price comparison and online booking website for long-distance bus routes. The company was founded in 2013 by co-founders Eduardo Madeiros and Marcos Sterenkrantz. [1] [2] ClickBus is a global chain of bus ticket resellers, founded by German start up accelerator Rocket Internet. As of today, ClickBus has websites setup and running ...