Ticket designs for the 16th Asian Games feature Games Mascots, the Five-Ram Sculpture of Guangzhou and kapok flowers, highlighting the local Lingnan elements of South China.
According to Yuan Yue, Director of the Main Ticketing Center of GAGOC, there are five categories of designs for the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games tickets including tickets for the Opening Ceremony, the Closing Ceremony, accredited personnel and ordinary spectators as well as thermal tickets.
Four of the designs are commemorative tickets booked by the public in Phase I and II. Thermal tickets will be available in the final phase of real-time ticket sales, produced by thermal printers upon purchase.
The 2010 Asian Games tickets contain a variety of anti-counterfeiting security features such as micro-printing, OVI (optically variable ink), dual-polarisation liquid crystal ink, three-color luminescent ink and DMC (dynamic model certification) automatic identification technology, for which the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation owns a patent. This marks the first time that DMC technology is being used to prevent counterfeiting of tickets in a major international sporting event.
Meanwhile, Yuan said that ticket sales have gone smoothly from July 26 to August 15. There are already 20,000 tickets applications for the Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies, 16,000 of which are for the Opening Ceremony.
The GAGOC will conduct a ticket lottery within a month to select the owners of the 5,000 tickets available for the Asian Games Opening Ceremony. The lottery process will be closely monitored by the Guangzhou Notary Public Office and the media. The lottery results will be announced in September.
Tickets for the Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies will be delivered in October and those for the Asian Para Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies will be delivered in November.
