UK parliament recommends fresh ticketing inquiry
The CMS Committee says an investigation is needed into "far-ranging and disturbing factors in the market", including alleged collusion between primary ticketers and touts
News By IQ | 16 November 2016
The British parliament’s Culture Media and Sport (CMS) Committee, which yesterday heard evidence from managers, artists and ticketing companies in a session on ‘ticket abuse’, has…
recommended a fresh investigation into “the whole area of ticketing” in response to “far-ranging and disturbing factors in the market”.
In a statement, issued this morning, the committee says it was “aware of the distortion of the ticketing markets caused by the use of technology (bots and software) to ‘harvest’ large numbers…
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