Tickets to Hong Kong Disneyland will be offered to the public through other channels besides online sales after the park opens on September 12.
Group managing director Don Robinson said yesterday that contracts were being finalised with various sales outlets, but declined to give details. Mr Robinson said caution must be taken to guard against fake tickets.
'In future, we will look at all sales outlets,' he said. Individual tickets are now only for sale online.
A spokesman for the MTR Corp denied that there were plans to sell park tickets at stations.
No dates for the park's first three months of operation have been sold out yet, though Mr Robinson said the 12,000 opening-day tickets were 'very close' to being sold. He said wholesalers and travel agents, who are allocated tickets for tour groups, still held many tickets.
Polytechnic University assistant professor of hotel and tourism management Norman Au said the apparent lack of a rush for tickets may be due to people's fears about internet credit card fraud and their overly high expectations of opening-day crowds.
