Youthstream announces new official Ticketing Partner Platinium Group

FUNCHAL
(Portugal), 20 March 2012 – Youthstream is very pleased to announce
a new partnership with the international company Platinium Group in
order to centralize the ticketing system of the FIM Motocross World
Championship. The main goal of this collaboration is to foster the
promotion of the series and support the organizers to boost the Grand
Prix ticket-sales and facilitate fans’ ticket bookings and
purchases. 

Thanks to this new partnership, Youthstream
is offering the organizers the opportunity to use this new
professional system at the best conditions on the market. The
promoters and fans will benefit from having a fully integrated
multilingual and multicurrency Ticket-shop on the Grand Prix’s
website as well as on the Championship’s official
page www.motocrossmx1.com,
which will enable the national and international fans to conveniently
book their tickets within a few clicks. Platinium Group offers an
international distribution network, comprised of major sports media
and ticketing operators, allowing the promoters to access millions of
potential extra customers worldwide. 

Steve Sasportas,
Vice President of Platinium Group, attended the annual meeting
between Youthstream, the FIM and the Organizers in Monaco at the
beginning of March, so he had the opportunity to present the new
ticketing system to the organizers and establish the first contact.
All the parties were very enthusiastic on this new partnership, as
Platinium Group has a long and successful experience in Sports
Ticketing and with their support the FIM Motocross World Championship
will reach wider audiences in the near future. 

Giuseppe
Luongo, President of Youthstream Group, said: ‘Platinum Group is a
fantastic tool for organizers and also for our fans worldwide. This
is another good step towards developing the FIM Motocross World
Championship. From now, all our fans will be able to reserve their
tickets easily and discover all their other advantages at our Grand
Prix events, they will have all the information in their own language
and in their own currency at the end of their fingertips. Platinum
Group has great experience via other major sports and now they will
be at our disposal. We thank Mr. Steve Sasportas and Platinum Group
for believing in the FIM Motocross World Championship and for
becoming our partner.’

Dr. Wolfgang Srb, FIM/CMS Director,
added: ‘The presentation of the new ticketing system of the FIM
Motocross World Championship on the occasion of the annual meeting
between Youthstream, the FIM and the Organizers was indeed very
impressive. On and off the track, in all aspects: the FIM Motocross
World Championship offers simply the best!’

Steve Sasportas,
Vice President of Platinium Group, explained: ‘It is with a lot of
enthusiasm that our company enters the world of Motocross. Platinium
Group will now be offering race Organizers the latest technologies
and trends for online and on-site Ticketing, which has considerably
evolved over the last years. I sincerely thank Mr. Luongo and his
team for their trust in selecting our company as Official Ticketing
Partner.’

Platinium
Group S.A.M.
Platinium
Group (PG) was founded in 1985, on the belief that business
intelligence should be about customer experience. 

The
Group incorporates two main activities: Travel & Sports
➡ A
Travel Company specialized in high-end leisure travel.
➡ An
e-commerce business specialized in Sports & Entertainment
ticketing.

With its own R&D Lab, PG has focused on
simplifying the online booking process related to sports ticketing,
while offering the ability to track results and manage in depth
settings. The core objective is to offer an alternative solution to
traditional online ticketing systems, which have become inflexible,
technologically inappropriate and financially unattractive. 

We
pioneered new approaches to accessing, managing, and interacting with
data.
Our Ticketing Solution is recognized as a groundbreaking
technology. With a focus on customer satisfaction, the company
operates globally in over 30 countries for sports events such as
Formula One, MotoGP, Tennis, Golf...

LINKS
Youthstream
FIM
Platinium
Group

Photo:
From left to right: Srb, Sasportas, Luongo

FOR
MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 

Ms.
Marionna Leiva | Youthstream Media Manager | Mobile: +34 629 20 97 83
| Email: media@youthstream.org 

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