Pia launches Japan’s first ticket exchange site
Working with four industry associations, Japan's biggest ticketer has unveiled Tiketore, a homegrown face-value ticket resale site
News By | 18 May 2017
Pia Corporation, the company behind Japan’s largest primary ticket agency, Ticket Pia, has established the country’s first face-value ticket exchange.
The launch of Tiketore (チケトレ), which went live on 10 May, comes after several industry groups, festivals and artists took out newspaper ads in support of #ResaleNO, an initiative aimed at ending the “huge profits” being earned from the secondary ticketing market, last October.
The new site is endorsed by the four industry associations – the Japanese Federation of Music…