Hi Barry,
Thanks for the response. Your plugins do a really great job and I totally understand that the plugins themselves are unable to modify the WooCommerce templates. I appreciate your help on this and that you offer advice on how to modify WooCommerce templates even though they aren’t your responsibility.
I’ll check out the plugin you suggested. In the meantime the solution I have decided upon is to name the tickets with as much info as possible such as:
Event name, 10am-2pm, Wed 27 nov 2013 – Adult Ticket
This obviously requires a bit more data entry for the person setting up tickets but it’s an interim solution for the issue I was facing before.