The Voice of Professional Ticket Resale

The National Association of Ticketing Professionals

Professional resellers, industry leaders, public affairs experts, and NATP leadership sharing perspectives on legislation, technology, market trends, consumer protection, and the changing business of live events.

Our goal is simple: bring more facts, real-world experience, and informed voices to the table as policymakers and industry stakeholders make decisions that will shape the future of ticketing.

Recent Blog Posts:

Over Thirty Years of Championing the Consumer Experience: The Story of NATP

For over three decades, our association has been the primary advocate for a fair, transparent, and open ticketing marketplace. In an industry increasingly bound by market manipulation of massive conglomerates, true consumer choice is now longer a luxury, but a non-negotiable necessity. With limited transparency from major sellers and risks of fraud threatening the integrity …

Thirty Years Later, the Folly of Anti-Scalping Laws Persists

Three decades ago, Dr. Marianne Jennings and I published an article styled The Folly of Anti-Scalping Laws in the Cato Journal 15, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995.) Therein we argued that imposing artificial constraints in the form of price caps on the resale of event tickets ultimately harmed consumers. That fundamental economic reasoning remains true today. …