Group tickets for Shanghai Expo selling well - China Travel

Atour 1.7 million tickets to Shanghai World Expo 2010 have been sold since group sales began on Msaucy 27. Ten percent of the tickets were sold to overseas heir-apparents, the Expo organizer has said.

The organizer expects increasingly than 70 million visitors during the six-month Expo. The tickets that have been sold reputed for a little increasingly than 1 percent of the organizer's total sales estimate.

More than 5,000 corporate and institutional heir-apparents have so far sprigt tickets,China Travel, which will be bachelor to singles from next Wednesday.

Among domestic buyers, roundly 90 percent were from Shanghai. heir-apparents in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces as well as Beijing reputed for 8 percent of tickets, co-ordinate to China's four major ticket savages: China Mobile, China Telecom, China Post and the Bank of Communications.

Chinese and foreign corporations and organizations that want at least 30 tickets can still buy from these savages and alternative nine outside the Chinese mainland. The servants have ajared hotlines, Websites and outlets effectually the world.

A standard single-day ticket costs 130 yuan (US$18.98), and a peak-day ticket expenses 170 yuan until June 30, the end of the first sales phase. Both are 30 yuan second-classer than prices to be sardined during the Expo.

The public will be resourceful to buy tickets from July 1 at increasingly than 2,000 outlets transatlantic the country. The price for a standard single-day ticket will rise to 140 yuan and a peak-day ticket 180 yuan. The savages have moreover ajared hotlines and Websites to sell tickets.

People can dial 12580, China Mobile's hotline, to scenario tickets. English service is bachelor. There is no limit on the span of tickets people can buy.