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As admission is generally described as the money that you pay has to a particular building or event to be allowed to enter.

entrance fee

As admission is called for journeying or to visit certain facilities necessary fee. It is usually requested at the entrance in a small ticket booth, occasionally also in a machine with a turnstile. In most of the facilities that charge an entry fee, you have to pay for entry again when you leave the area that is subject to entry fees. Especially at events or in discos, after paying the entrance fee, visitors receive a stamp on the surface of their hands, which entitles them to multiple admission.

Admission ticket

Entrance ticket (not torn off) for the Berchtesgaden spa cinema

An admission ticket , also known as an English ticket , is a bearer paper usually provided with serial numbers or other features, made of printed paper and paid for with an entrance fee , which is mostly used at larger events. Occasionally, even after paying the entrance fee, the visitor receives a cardboard, chip or magnetic card, with the help of which he can buy other things, such as drinks, within the area subject to the entrance fee.

pre sales

For events with a high entrance fee, tickets can often be purchased in advance, far away from the event site. Some major events sell out long before the actual event. An example of large-scale advance ticket sales is the 2006 World Cup . Advance sales are usually also carried out for concerts or similar events. A presale fee is usually charged in advance sales . This is usually between ten and 15 percent of the basic price.

Box office

Remaining items of admission tickets can be purchased directly at the box office, provided that it is an evening event. The term box office is synonymous with day events. These tickets mostly result from returned tickets if no replacement could be found for the event participant and you want to avoid cancellation fees. In addition, tickets that have not been picked up from advance sales and tickets that have been returned on pre-order if the cost of picking them up would have been prohibitively high.

Safeguards

CeBIT Home 1998 admission ticket with barcode

Modern tickets have other technical features, such as: B. a magnetic strip , an integrated chip ( RFID ) or a machine-readable barcode to speed up the technical reading process. They are produced, sold and distributed using modern e-ticketing processes, including the Internet. Some open source projects are working on it. This is primarily intended to prevent counterfeiting . The tickets for the 2006 World Cup in Germany were tied to the names of the customers. This should serve both to avoid so-called hooligans and to prevent black market business . In the meantime, many providers also offer print @ home the option of printing out admission tickets at home on a PC printer. These tickets usually contain a 2-dimensional barcode , which is checked for validity when scanners enter . In addition to securing the tickets, the event area is usually also secured. Examples are fences or emergency exit doors that can only be opened from inside the building. This is to prevent someone from entering the area who has not paid entry.

Hard ticket

The hard ticket has the function of a normal concert or festival ticket, but in contrast to the computer-generated advance sale tickets, it is usually decorated with colored sponsor logos and other images and therefore looks more attractive than the advance sale tickets. The hard ticket is often used as a special souvenir and is therefore often bought by concert ticket collectors. In contrast to on-demand tickets (which are only printed after purchase, directly on site), hard tickets are printed in advance and are not available in personalized form at the relevant sales outlets.

Affected institutions

Typical examples where you usually have to pay an entrance fee are listed below:

In some cases, entry is also charged for the following facilities:

In some countries (such as Great Britain) and more recently in Germany (such as the Berlin Cathedral ), entry is also required for visiting churches of particular tourist interest. Attending church services, however, is almost never affected.

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