Rugby World Cup Organizers Confident On Sell-Out Of Tickets

The organizing committee of the upcoming Rugby World Cup are unfazed by the number of unsold tickets for the event. The Rugby World Cup kicks off in ten days and there are still 170,000 tickets left unsold. Rugby World Cup organizers though remained confident that they would reach the figure and achieve the target on time. The Rugby World Cup, to be held in New Zealand, will go on for 44 days, and the special feature for this years edition, 'The Cloud' was unveiled in Auckland last month. Rugby NZ 2011 chief executive Martin Snedden said that $26 million-worth of tickets were waiting to be sold, and expressed confidence that the tickets would sell out by the time the matches begin.