Huge demand overwhelms Beijing ticket sale system
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Huge demand for the second tranche of Beijing Olympics tickets overwhelmed the booking system, jammed telephone lines and caused lengthy queues when sales started on Tuesday morning.
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The first wave of tickets for the Diana memorial concert sell out within minutes of going on sale.
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With the growth of small-business and independent employee travel, booking sites are scrambling to serve this market.
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Description: In the weeks leading up to the Olympic games in Athens, hotels were expecting huge crowds to flood the city. Lagging ticket sales at Olympic venues seem to have trickled into the hotel business as well, as crowds have failed to show up as ...
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Millions of Chinese workers battled for a precious train ticket home Sunday as authorities flew in emergency supplies to areas stranded by the worst weather in 50 years.
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The perennial Olympics pariah, commonly known as the ticket scalper, is having a hard time in Athens. Scalpers normally buy hard-to-get tickets, with hopes of selling them later at highly inflated prices.
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Two big numbers: $330 million, nearly 1-in-176 million. You can guess which one people were thinking about as they waited in line for Mega Millions tickets.
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LONDON -- The NFL's first regular-season game outside North America already looks like a big hit. More than 500,000 tickets were requested by about 160,000 fans in the three days following Friday's official announcement, the NFL said Wednesday.
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InfoWorld - Chinese sport fans have embraced an online lottery for tickets to the&#160;2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Over 420,000 tickets sold for Pan American Games    RIO DE JANEIRO, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Over 420,000 tickets have been sold for the Rio de Janeiro 2007 Pan American games' competitions, opening and closing ceremonies, the organizing committee said on Friday.
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China's fiercest winter in half  a century brought renewed misery for millions of travelers on  Sunday as they struggled to make their way home for the year's  most important holiday.
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Ticket prices at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will range from $3.82 to $638 when they go on sale next year.
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On Aug. 8, when the Beijing Olympics begin in promised splendor, a few may reflect on how far or how fast China has come to host this high mark of international prestige.
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Baseball fans trying to snap up Colorado Rockies World Series tickets overwhelmed computers set up for the online-only sale on Monday, forcing the club to temporarily suspend transactions.
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A registration system for Glastonbury Festival tickets, designed to frustrate touts, is to open later.
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Trans-Atlantic business-class fares are about to become even more complicated as competition grows and demand holds up.
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Beijing Olympic Games organizers allocated just one-quarter of 1.8 million tickets available in the latest lottery sale of seats, officials said on Sunday, creating a new ticketing headache for the event.