Travel & tourism

Ryanair Check-in Kiosks

A Flying Start

As of October 2008, Stansted Airport in the UK now boasts 80 new IBM checkin kiosks for Ryanair customers to grab up to 180 flights a day.
 

Electronics Vending

Passenger Pilot

Best Buy, a leading American consumer electronics retailer, is installing twelve Best But Express kiosks in major airports across the USA, as part of a new pilot programme carried out in collaboration with ZoomSystems.

Foreign Currency at ATMs

Changing Gear

With over 320 branches in 20 countries worldwide, International Currency Exchange (ICE) handles an average of one transaction every six seconds.

Baggage Handling Kiosks

Best Case Scenario

The departure terminals of airports across Europe are already populated by check-in kiosks, but kiosks are also a solution well-suited to the arrivals hall as a tool for baggage handling, allowing customers to report, monitor, track and even reclaim their lost baggage through self-service.
 

Wincor World 2009

Part of the Process

At Wincor World 2009, subtitled ‘Moving ahead through Innovation’, Wincor Nixdorf will be presenting IT solutions that retail banks and retail companies can use to achieve process improvement.

Hungary's Own Kiosks

Hungary for a Change

Cost-effectiveness, especially in the current economic situation, has become a particularly important issue for banks and financial service providers. We are now seeing an increasing number of tiny, automated bank branches opening up, or 24-hour lobby zones appearing in the forefronts of current ones.

WiFi Access Point

A Spot of Business

While it doesn’t take much to set up a WiFi access point to offer unencrypted internet access to everyone, providing such a service without any monetary benefit does not really offer much of an incentive.

Airport Wayfinding Solution

Lost in Translation

Kiosks are already a familiar feature of many airport checkins, but kiosks have recently been installed in Hyderabad International Airport and Delhi Terminals 1 and 2 to help travellers find their way around the airports.

Advertising on DS and Kiosks

Doubling Up

By Martin Mengler, Polygon
 
All too often, the use of digital signage is still closely allied to the concept of classical poster / hard copy signage, leading to an underutilisation of the new medium’s core strengths and potential.

Review: KIOSK EUROPE EXPO 2008

Repeat Business

KIOSK EUROPE EXPO 2008 and DIGITAL SIGNAGE EXPO 2008 opened in May 2008 at Messe Essen, near Düsseldorf in Germany, to great acclaim from visitors and exhibitors alike.

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