Visa adds voice to calls for paperless Olympic ticketing

October 30 – Leading Olympic sponsor Visa has added its voice to calls for paperless ticketing.

Colin Grannell, a senior Europe-based executive with Visa, the payment company that is a longstanding member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s TOP worldwide sponsorship programme, says he would like to see “the ticket infrastructure be developed electronically rather than paper tickets”.

He told iSportConnect: “It does remove things, such as ticket touts, from the equation far easier if [we] are using electronics not only for payments, but also for information and data.”  Read More >