Box Office Tickets Partners with Travel Salem on AbsolutelyTix™
Third Oregon community can now promote local events and sell tickets online
PORTLAND, OREGON, USA — April 7, 2009 — Box Office Tickets Inc., the first ticketing company to bring Web 2.0 to local arts and cultural communities, announces AbsolutelyTix™ (www.absolutelytix.com)—a new ticketing network for Salem and Marion and Polk counties.
AbsolutelyTix™ is a free service offered by Box Office Tickets in partnership with Travel Salem, which promotes area tourism. The new AbsolutelyTix™ network makes it easy for local arts, non-profit, and other community organizations to promote events, sell tickets and transact other business over the Internet. It also provides a single source of online information about upcoming local shows and events.
"We're pleased to partner with Travel Salem to create a local ticketing network that will help connect people to events and support the local economy," says George Domurot, President/CEO of Box Office Tickets Inc. "Our online ticketing and transaction capabilities combined with Travel Salem's marketing and visitor outreach enables local organizations to promote their events and sell tickets to a much broader audience through the network."
Angie Morris, Chief Executive Officer of Travel Salem says, "AbsolutelyTix™ furthers our mission to be a comprehensive resource for visitors through our Travel Café, which will now serve as a centralized ticketing outlet. It also gives us the opportunity to support our local nonprofit organizations and partners by providing a much-needed service for ticketing. We partnered with Box Office Tickets because of its state-of-the-art ticketing, access to services and local focus." What's more, notes Morris, five cents from each ticket sold on www.absolutelytix.com will be donated to an area non-profit organization each year.
"Giving movie-goers the ability to quickly select a film and conveniently buy tickets online has long been part of our strategy," says Loretta Miles, Executive Director of Salem Film Festival. "Box Office Tickets has made that happen for us. The timing is perfect for the Salem Film Festival, which runs from April 17-26, 2009."
Opportunities for State-Wide Efficiencies
AbsolutelyTix™ is the third local ticketing network built for an Oregon community by Box Office Tickets. The PDX Ticket Network™ (www.pdxtix.net), launched in February 2008, serves the Portland metro area and the Rogue Ticket Network™ (www.roguetix.net), launched last month, serves the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon. Growth in all three communities also creates new state-wide opportunities for the sharing of resources among arts and non-profit organizations. Since its founding last year, for example, the PDX Ticket Network™ has grown to include more than 245 organizations.
AbsolutelyTix™ for Partners: Connecting to Audiences
The AbsolutelyTix™ network is open to all theaters and groups with ticketing needs in Salem and Marion and Polk Counties. There are no fees for network partner organizations. For example, groups selling a $20 ticket through the network get $20 back for each sale. Customers pay a small service fee of $1 and five percent of the ticket price for the convenience of using the online network.
AbsolutelyTix™ for Members: Connecting to Events
Individuals can register for free on www.absolutelytix.com, where they can also indicate which organizations and types of local performances, shows and other events are of interest to them. Members receive a weekly personal digest with information on upcoming shows, events and promotions that match their interests.
For more information, visit www.absolutelytix.com, www.boxofficetickets.com, or www.travelsalem.com.
About Box Office Tickets
Box Office Tickets Inc. has been empowering the event and entertainment industry through innovative "back of the house" services since 1993. Known for the quality of its customer service and technology, boxofficetickets.com® is a national brand with proven experience in handling all types of events — the arts, sports, business conferences and non-profit fund-raisers. Through its boxofficetickets.com® and RoBOT® technologies, Box Office Tickets provides a complete range of reliable and affordable solutions for order processing, admission control and data management services.
About Travel Salem
Travel Salem is a nonprofit organization that promotes Salem and Marion and Polk counties for leisure tourism and convention and event business. The local annual economic impact of the greater Salem area visitor industry is $511.8 million. Travel Salem manages the Official Salem Area Visitors Center called the Travel Café located at 181 High Street NE, Salem, Oregon and online at the Official Salem Area Website www.TravelSalem.com.
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