The Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, unveiled the designs of the tickets on Friday.
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An additional 9,600 members of Brazil’s national security force will be responsible for overseeing security within Rio’s Olympic sports venues.
Ticket director Donovan Ferretti also unveiled the ticket designs on Friday, saying new technology will make them hard to counterfeit. Staff at the company, which has 30 years of experience in ticket production, “live to produce tickets” said Donovan Ferreti, the Rio 2016 ticketing director.
“This group has had some successes already, one of these was the indictment of 10 people who were reselling tickets illegally over social media”. This will probably be the most important preparation for us as we will be acclimatizing as well as getting over any jetlag that we might have right before the event. Ferreti could not comment on how numerous four million tickets were sold domestically instead of internationally.
“Here in Brazil we have the culture to buy the tickets very close to the event”, Ferretti said.
He also said sales outside Brazil were on track although he could not give specific numbers. Organizers remain confident they will sell out all of the remaining tickets in the final 78 days until the Olympic Games.
“We can only release the tickets if we can guarantee the seats are going to be there”, he said.
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Of the two million unsold tickets, about 800,000 are for football.
