Навчальний посібник для студентів ос «Бакалавр» галузі знань 03 «Гуманітарні науки»

over half a million tickets online by 2005. In the following year, a Half Price 
Ticket Tent was added in association with Metro, offering special ticket prices 
for different shows each day, selling 45,000 tickets in its first year. 
Several venues use their own ticketing systems; this is partly due to 
issues of commissions and how ticket revenue is distributed,
and was 
reinforced by the 2008 failure of the main box office. 
 
In 2008 the Fringe faced the biggest crisis in its history when the 
computerised ticketing system failed. The director of the Fringe resigned and 
the Board decided that the post of "Director" (invented in 1992 after years of 
being called "Fringe Administrator") would be abolished and replaced by a 
Chief Executive, thus reinforcing the Fringe chief's basic administrative 
function. A report into the failure was commissioned from accountancy firm 
Scott-Moncrieff.
The events surrounding the failed box office software led to the 
resignation of Fringe Director Jon Morgan after only one full year in post. 
The resultant financial loss suffered by the Fringe Society has been estimated 
at £300,000 which it was forced to meet from its reserves.These events 
attracted much comment from the UK and world media. More debts emerged 
as the year went on, and an independent report criticised the Board and the 
current and previous Fringe Directors for a failure of management and an 
inability to provide the basic service.
To make matters worse, Fringe Sunday – a vast free showcase of events 
held on the Meadows – was cancelled as a sponsor could not be secured.
After an interim period, when Tim Hawkins from Brighton held the reins, 
established Edinburgh Book Festival and Fringe manager Kath Mainland was 
appointed in February 2009 to stabilise the situation, and became the Fringe's 
first Chief Executive. 

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