Kilimanjaro Live/DEAG partner with Twickets
The UK promoter is the latest to join forces with Twickets, directing MyTicket.co.uk customers to the face-value resale site for sold-out shows
News By IQ | 8 December 2016
MyTicket.co.uk, the in-house UK ticket agency for promoter Kilimanjaro Live and parent company Deutsche Entertainment AG (DEAG), has become the latest company to sign a partnership with face-value ticket exchange Twickets.
The deal will see MyTicket.co.uk customers redirected to Twickets for sold-out shows, which Kilimanjaro says will “help to protect its customers from overpricing on the secondary market”.
Kili founder and CEO Stuart Galbraith was one of the most prominent critics of June’s Waterson report into secondary ticketing in the UK, telling IQ of his “bitter disappointment” that Professor Michael Waterson “[came] to the conclusion the consumer doesn’t need protection in the form of [new] legislation”.
Commenting on the new partnership, he says: “This is a hugely positive move…