Mobile Ticketing Becoming More Popular With UK Festivals
Mobile ticketing company, Trinity Mobile has revealed that its cell phone ticketing service is enabling UK festival organizers to sell tens of thousands of tickets thus easing the ticketing process and minimizing fraud. The service is virtually eliminating the number of fake tickets presented on the day of the show.
Leading events across the UK will be using Trinity Mobile’s Easy Ticket technology to enable concertgoers to receive tickets on their mobile phones, and will allow festival organizers to make use of the data generated from the ticket sales to promote future events to fans.
According to D James Busby, Head of Detonate Productions, and a convert to Trinity Mobile’s ticketing process, more and more people are attending their events and it is imperative that they sell tickets as quickly and efficiently as possible, without having to issue thousands of paper tickets or worry about counterfeit passes.
Another festival, whose ticketing is set to be handled by Trinity Mobile include Nottingham University’s planned October 2010 festival. This is a major tented festival which expects to attract over 10,000 visitors.
Mobile ticketing becomes popular in UK
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Over 600,000 mobile boarding passes has been processed by mobile ticketing supplier, Trinity Mobile, sent out via mobile text messages in 2009, up from 50,000 in 2008. Mobile phone technology to scan barcodes directly off all mobile phone screens is used by the company and is customers include Austrian Airlines and British Midlands Airways (BMI).
According to Rob Clegg, Commercial Director at Trinity Mobile, the massive growth in mobile ticketing is completely driven by the consumer’s need for the fastest, easiest and most affordable way to get tickets and the company’s technology has proven to deliver these enhanced customer services efficiently, securely and cost effectively, and has the added benefit of being environmentally friendly.
Besides delivering more quickly with cancellations, mobile ticketing also reduces the costs related to issuing paper boarding passes and even the cancellations and re-issues are managed almost instantly.
