Corporates offered use of VIP lanes for London 2012 Olympic Games against LOCOG rules
It has been recently revealed that businesses are being given the chance of buying the right to use VIP road lanes during the time that the Olympic Games will take place in the capital of England.
However, the opportunity to buy access to the VIP lanes has not been advocated publically so that negative attention may not be attracted to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
This offer to use the lanes at a premium price is available to the corporates only if they pay up a total of £20,000 per head for the usage.
Thomas Cook, the famous travel company has come into the limelight for offering its clients the window of making use of the VIP routes that would provide easy access to the Olympic venues. However, while making the deals with its clients, the company expressed
its wishes of not being vocal about the opportunity to use the VIP lanes.
Thomas Cook has ownership of a total of 300,000 tickets after paying an amount of £25 million to the LOCOG. Despite the fact that Thomas Cook is a hospitality organization, it is not allowed to offer the use of the VIP lanes to the Olympic venues to their
clients under the rules put down by the LOCOG. However, Thomas Cook itself is allowed to make use of the special lanes itself.
Pete Moore, who is the Head of Olympic Trip Packages for Thomas Cook, expressed himself in the following words, “There have been so many issues with these Olympic lanes and to be honest with you we need to keep it really quiet because we can’t really be
saying that we have access to it... people will say, ‘Oh well, you can buy your own way on to the Olympic lanes.’”
A spokeswoman of the London Organising Committee of the London Olympics made the following statements on the issue at hand, “We have been very clear with our authorised ticket resellers that the right to purchase our tickets does not include the right to
access the Olympic lanes. Any evidence that suggests they are trying to sell access to the lanes will be immediately investigated.”
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