Tourists complain it is often impossible to find regular tickets as big tour companies scoop them up weeks in advance. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ROME - Italy’s antitrust authorities are going into combat over Rome’s Colosseum, opening an investigation into ticketing operations that have seen tourists paying inflated prices to visit the ancient Roman arena where gladiators once fought.But tourists complain it is often impossible to find regular tickets as big tour companies scoop them up on the official website weeks in advance and then repackage them as much more expensive guided tours.
“CoopCulture seems not to have put in place appropriate systems to avoid the hoarding of tickets...thus depriving consumers of the possibility to buy tickets at the ordinary price,” the authority said. CoopCulture “has systems in place to counter purchases in bulk”, the group’s Director General Letizia Casuccio said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
Mr Carlo Rienzi, the head of consumers rights body Codacons, said “secondary ticketing” was costing Italy millions of euros.
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