If the organizing committee of Paris 2024 is having trouble selling its 2.8 million tickets for the Paralympic Games (only 900,000 have been bought), the state, for its part, is having trouble generating the interest of people with disabilities and their carers, which it wants to give away free portions of the approximately 400,000 tickets he bought for the events during the Olympic Games (100,700) and the Paralympic Games (298,600).
“It’s not very easy. We didn’t get the results we hoped for”, the interministerial delegate to the Games, Michel Cadot, declared on Wednesday March 27 in front of deputies. As part of this operation, known as “popular ticket sales”, which will cost 11 million euros in total, the government plans to offer 17,400 tickets to people with disabilities and their caregivers, based on medical-social institutions and services, on the paragraph. – sports movement and on associative networks.
While you guarantee “accessibility” at the test sites for the disabled, Cadot stressed that the issue of travel could present problems. “It takes a long time to arrive when you live in a remote ward” of the test sites mostly located in Ile-de-France, the inter-ministerial delegate illustrated, while adding that“work with associations” was rehired.
70,000 young people come by train, just over 40,000 by bus
Mr. Cadot also assured that ” it went well “ with regard to the audience of children and young people (students from CM1 to final year, young people protected by child welfare or benefiting from a support program for the holidays), who constitute the main target of this free ticket program (258,800 seats are intended for them).
“We need to bring them in, welcome them, this system will be completed”explained Michel Cadot, while specifying: “We have confirmed that 70,000 [d’entre eux] will come by train and a little more than 40,000 by bus, especially from the first ring of the Ile-de-France region, that is from Centre-Val de Loire, Normandy or Hauts-de-France..
Paralympic Games: selling tickets is ‘a collective challenge’
Heard on March 27 by the deputies, Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee (Cojop), declared that succeeding in selling the 2.8 million available places for the Paralympic Games (from August 28 to September 8) constitutes “a collective challenge”. To date, only 900,000 tickets have found takers. “It is difficult to project oneself onto this event, less known, with less media exposure, fewer incarnations” on the athletes’ side, Mr. Estanguet said to explain the low sales. “We are working on a communication strategy at home” before the event he added, stressing that “ it is on the last line, and even after the Olympic Games [du 24 juillet au 11 août]that half of the tickets usually sell ». However, Cojop intends not to find itself in London’s situation in 2012, where 40% of Paralympic tickets were sold from the start of the Olympics. Especially for the sake of securing the ticket revenue as soon as possible.
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