Hong Kong should implement a real-name system for buying tickets to ward off scalpers, the head of the city’s consumer watchdog has said, as ones for concerts by Cantopop star Nicholas Tse Ting-fung are going for as much as HK$200,000 (US$25,700) on the secondary market. Consumer Council chief executive Gilly Wong Fung-han said on Saturday…
Hong Kong should implement a real-name system for buying tickets to ward off scalpers, the head of the city’s consumer watchdog has said, as ones for concerts by Cantopop star Nicholas Tse Ting-fung are going for as much as HK$200,000 (US$25,700) on the secondary market. Consumer Council chief executive Gilly Wong Fung-han said on Saturday…
Ticket touts may well be cheering their improved prospects for cashing in on the “concert economy” that Hong Kong hopes can help boost its post-pandemic recovery. Authorities, meanwhile, have drawn jeers from lawmakers after it emerged there have been no convictions for scalping in years, despite a decades-old law against it. Lawmakers accused the government…