Security concern hampers tickets sales for Athens
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-04-09 09:33

U.S. tickets sales for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens suffered severely drop because of concernsof security and economy, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

The tickets sales are down about 30 per cent and travel packages are down 20 per cent compared with the 2000 Games in Sydney, according to Cartan Tours, the only agency licensed by the U.S. Olympic Committee to sell Olympic tickets.

Don Williams, head of Cartan Tours, cited the security concernsthe biggest reason for the dip, with the sluggish economy and the poor value of the U.S. dollar against the Euro also contribution.

Williams said projects sales of the Athens Games are just 125,000, a great drop to 180,000 tickets of the Sydney Games, which also be less than the 140,000 tickets sold for the 1992 Barcelona Games.

Estimated 12,000 Americans would travel to Athens for the Games between Aug. 13-29, compared with about 18,000 to Sydney.

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