The Chief of the Brisbane Olympic Games has promised “affordable” tickets for the 2032 Games, and wants guaranteed places for residents in the opening and closing ceremonies.
In an interview with the president of ABC of the Organizing Committee of 2032, Andrew Liveris said that the Paris Games sold one million tickets for about 40 euros ($ 70) each.
A new stadium of 63,000 seats in Victoria Park for Brisbane 2032 will be built. Already a dozen sports have requested to join the alignment. (Supplied)
He said it was “very important” that the tickets were available for Brisbane residents, with tickets or lotteries to determine the assignment.
“We will have affordable ticket prices for the demographic group that matters to us, which is the citizen who is not the elite VIP, oriented to hospitality,” Liveris said.
‘No for tourists’
When asked if a family could attend the swimming finals for an affordable price, Liveris highlighted Sydney games as an example that Brisbane wanted to follow.
“One thing that Sydney did well, what we will learn … is to make sure the tickets put aside like that, so there were not only the rich and the elite that can go to them,” he said.
“We will see what Sydney did. They did some of that … assign the main events for school children and others to go.“
He also said that it was his “objective” to have a guaranteed assignment of tickets so that Brisbane residents attend the opening and closing ceremonies.
“Certainly, we would work on that,” he said.
“This is not an event for tourists. This is an event for the nation. This is an event for the State. It is an event for the region. It is an event for the city.”
Brisbane 2032 organizers will analyze what Sydney’s Olympic Games did well. (AAP: Dave Hunt)
Liveris said that tickets with “very high” advantages would still be available, but this would compensate for the cost of other tickets to make them more affordable.
He suggested that an affordable price would be between $ 30 and $ 50.
“You will not hug me, but something like that,” Liveris added.
It is expected that approximately one third of the income will be generated during the Brisbane multimillionaire games that come from the sale of tickets and goods.
It is projected that the cost of delivery for the games will be approximately $ 5 billion.
Extatic for Victoria Park stadium
Liveris said he was ecstatic when he heard that a new stadium would be built in Victoria Park.
“One of the best things in Paris was the experience of athlete and fans,” he said.
“Now I can see an experience of fans and an athlete experience in the new enclosure in Victoria Park, with the nearby aquatic center and the people potentially right next to each other, as something very commercialized for people to come and visit, be part and then have a legacy.”
Charging…
Reflecting on the proposal of former Steven Miles Prime Minister to use QSAC, Liveris said that a lot of work would have been needed to be easy to use for a large -scale event.
“To be honest, I had to know where Qsac was,” he said, when he was asked what went through his mind when Miles proposed to use the site in Nathan.
“I met Brisbane Commonwealth Games ’82. When I was here, that’s what I knew.
“The fact that I had been renamed Qsac had escaped my attention. Five minutes later I discovered what it was, so it was not new to me in that.”
More sports request Brisbane games
The 2028 Los Angeles Games are adding six new sports: Cricket, Squash, Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball and Flag Soccer.
Liveris said that more than a dozen new sports had also requested to join the Brisbane Games.
He said that any sport added to the games should have a “financial positive.”
They also need an international gender and popularity balance, with multiple countries involved in sports.
“What sports import a) the Australian consumer, b) the global consumer, to obtain more television income. I think you should think about it that way,” he said.
“I want income because this is a commercial activity. We are financed in private.
“If I am going to add things, it cannot be the criterion that is a fantasy flight.”
Brisbane 2032 will announce its sports line in the first half of next year.
