Some of the continent's leading concert and festival promoters unite in the formation of an organisation that seeks to fight ticket-touting and establish ethical mechanisms for event-goers to resell tickets they cannot use.
FEAT, the Face-value European Alliance for Ticketing, will lobby both national governments and the European Union (EU) to introduce legislation to regulate the resale sector and educate music fans into only buying tickets from safe, authorised outlets.
A not-for–profit organisation, FEAT will focus predominantly on the live music business and says it will "build alliances with the full scope of the live entertainment industry including performing arts and sport".
"The growth and effectiveness of grassroots movements against industrial ticket touting in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland in recent years has been invigorating," says FEAT director Sam Shemtob, who is based in the UK and also heads Name PR.
"The time has come for these movements to connect, collaborate and speak as one at a European level, where we know MEPs [members of the European Parliament] are listening."
Posted on: 14/02/2019Categories: News from Audience Magazine
