a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/Szx3xrHavvI/AAAAAAAADuc/lUbBA3Kbipo/s1600-h/rwc-2011-ticket-sales.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/Szx3xrHavvI/AAAAAAAADuc/lUbBA3Kbipo/s400/rwc-2011-ticket-sales.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421339746718367474" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"The first round of ticket sales for the upcoming 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand will be available from tomorrow, January 1st 2010. /spanbr /br /Fans worldwide will initially only be able to book tickets in the form of official travel packages, which in a nutshell means accommodation, travel, and match tickets. br /br /The two agencies in New Zealand that have the franchise are House of Travel and Seasonz Travel, and they're expecting an overwhelming response.br /br /"There's absolute demand from all parts of the world right now and we expect (the packages) to sell out very quickly," says Brent Thomas of House of Travel.br /br /He says the packages will sell out rapidly, as they've already had enquiries from places like Argentina, South Africa, Europe and the US.br /br /On February 1st corporate packages will go on sale, with venue and team packs becoming available in April. Individual tickets and the ballot for the semi-finals and final will be available later in the year.br /br /centerobject width="400" height="288"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FIFp5F9BpWMamp;hl=en_GBamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FIFp5F9BpWMamp;hl=en_GBamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="288"/embed/object/centerspan style="font-size:85%;"br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span01:53br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Note: /spanWith thanks to tvnz.co.nzbr //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-657907185125072701?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=pTjCIdjrcjw:pShNq9x0_20:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/pTjCIdjrcjw" height="1" width="1"/ More...