Updated：2007-10-27
View the Phase 2 policies
(BEIJING, October 27) -- The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) announced on Saturday that the second phase of domestic ticket sales for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games would start at 9:00 am, October 30 (GMT+8).
Differing from the Phase 1 sales, which relied on lottery drawings, the sales in this phase will use a "first come, first-served" policy within the scheduled time frame until the tickets are sold out.
1,850,000 tickets available
Roughly 1.85 million tickets to the Olympic sports competitions will be on sale in this phase, which will end in late January 2008. During the Phase 1 sales period from April 15 to June 30, all tickets to the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies and 1,590,000 tickets to the Olympic sports competitions were sold.
Outstanding payments from phase I, not qualified for phase 2
The eligibility requirements for Phase 2 remain unchanged from Phase 1. Any natural person who has an address in the territory of the People's Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macau Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province) and meets the ID requirements is eligible to request Olympic tickets through the designated channels.
Children aged two and under will enjoy free access to the venues but will have to share a guardian's seat.
Individuals who reserved tickets in Phase 1 but did not fulfill the payment obligation must first pay the outstanding amount before their Phase 2 ticket request can be processed.
Sales channels
The tickets will be sold through the following three channels: the Beijing Olympic Official Ticketing website; 1,000 BOCOG-designated Bank of China (BOC) branches; and the Beijing Olympic Ticketing Call Center, +8610 952008.
Applicants can choose to reserve the tickets through any of the three channels, as all three channels will be connected to the same database. According to the policy, paper application forms will not be valid for this phase.
Two-day payment deadline
Ticket reservations will be held for two days; a valid payment must be made for the tickets within two days, either online using a Visa card or in person at a BOC outlet. Otherwise, the ticket reservation will expire two days after the reservation was made, and the tickets will become available again in the ticket pool.
Those who successfully pay for the tickets will be notified to pick up the paper tickets in June 2008.
50-ticket max for each individual
Each individual is allowed to request two to five tickets for 10 competitions per order, depending on the demand for the competition. The bar is set at two tickets for competitions with the highest demand and three to five tickets for other competitions, with a maximum of 50 tickets per request in this phase.
To prevent ticket scalping, BOCOG will monitor the ticketing system and lock the accounts of suspected scalpers. Owners of locked accounts will only be able to view the status of the accounts and will not be allowed to purchase additional tickets.
Paralympic tickets sales
The Paralympic ceremony and sports tickets will also be available following the release of the policy regulating the sales of these tickets.
For further information, please contact +8610 952008, or visit the official ticketing website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games http://tickets.beijing2008.com.
