If the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee is having difficulty selling its 2.8 million tickets for the Paralympic Games (only 900,000 have been purchased), the State, for its part, is having difficulty generating interest with people with disabilities, and their caregivers, to whom he wishes to distribute free of charge part of the approximately 400,000 tickets he purchased for the Olympic Games (100,700) and the Paralympic Games (298,600).
“It’s not very easy. We did not have the results we hoped for”, declared the interministerial delegate to the Games, Michel Cadot, on Wednesday March 27 in front of the deputies. As part of this operation, known as “popular ticketing”, which will cost 11 million euros in total, the government plans to offer 17,400 tickets to people with disabilities and their caregivers, relying on on medical-social establishments and services, on the para-sport movement and on associative networks.
While guaranteeing “access capabilities” at the test sites for people with disabilities, Mr. Cadot stressed that the question of travel could pose problems. “It takes a long time to come when you live in a distant department” of the test sites which, for the most part, are located in Ile-de-France, illustrated the interministerial delegate, while adding that“work with associations” was rehired.
70,000 young people will come by train, a little over 40,000 by bus
Mr. Cadot also assured that ” it went well “ with regard to the public of children and young people (students from CM1 to final year, young people protected by child welfare or benefiting from a support program for the holidays), which constitutes the main target of this free ticketing program (258,800 places are intended for them).
“We have to bring them in, welcome them, this system is being finalized”explained Michel Cadot, while specifying: “We have confirmation that 70,000 [d’entre eux] will come by train and a little more than 40,000 by bus, particularly from the first ring of the Ile-de-France region, that is to say from Centre-Val de Loire, Normandy or Hauts-de-France..