Ticket touts are increasingly working the ferry terminals between Hong Kong and Macau, cashing in on the tourism boom in the territory that has revealed the inadequacy of ferry services, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported yesterday.
The public recently complaint about both the lack of ferries and associated ticket scalpers, when Venetian Macao held the exhibition matches between tennis stars Pete Sampras and Roger Federer as well as the basketball games involving Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic and Team China All-Stars.
Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management, whose TurboJet fleet operates most of the Hong Kong-Macau sailings, was cited by the newspaper as saying it was worried about scalping and vowed to protect passengers from rip-offs.
A handful of scalpers can often be seen hanging about near ticket windows at the Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal in Macau and the Shun Tak Centre in Hong Kong, especially on weekends and holidays.
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