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3/9/10 6:49 PM | Johan Lindahl
A 2009 plan to lower the boom on Wimbledon ticket touts has been quietly dropped to the amazement of the All England club.
The organisation which runs the Championships with an iron grip had been hoping to regain control over all ticketing and cut out the scalpers who discreetly ply their trade both on the internet and in the tree-lined vicinity of the club grounds.
But Parliament put paid to a proposal to regulate tennis tickets in the same manner in which football tickets are controlled. Therefore, touting, worth an estimated $1.5 billion per year, remains legal.
Parliament had been considering banning the resale of tickets for events deemed to be of “outstanding national significance." But the plan was dropped as "confusing and unworkable."
Touts are still banned from football matches and the upcoming London 2012 Olympics
“It is deeply disappointing that the Government has turned away a golden opportunity to introduce an effective regulatory solution to the problem of unauthorized secondary ticketing,” read a statement from the All England Club.
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