The Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel has become the first hotel in the world where guests and visitors can check-in to their Facebook wall, share photos and update their status just with the touch of their fingerprints, thanks to new PayTouch technology.
PayTouch returns this season to Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel with new developments. Thanks to the identification and fingerprint payment system implemented last season at Palladium Hotel Group’s flagship property, The Ushuaïa Club (part of Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel), it became the first hotel worldwide to offer biometric payment – giving guests and partygoers a secure, cash-free holiday experience.
This season PayTouch returns with a new Facebook application allowing Ushuaïa guests to share their holiday experiences on their Facebook page with just the touch of their fingerprints.
Visitors to the hotel and venue can publish photos, status updates and check-in by linking their fingerprints to their Facebook profile. Once linked, each Facebook totem dotted around the venue recognises the unique fingerprint and links straight through to the users’ Facebook account.
So for 2013, PayTouch not only offers guests the possibility to access and pay for purchases with their fingerprints, it also allows instant updates on Facebook, with just a touch.
About Palladium Hotel Group
The newly re-branded Palladium Hotel Group (formally Fiesta Hotel Group) is a Spanish hotel chain with over forty years of experience. The chain has 47 hotels in six countries and operates seven brands: The Royal Suites by Palladium, Palladium Hotels & Resorts, Fiesta Hotels & Resorts, Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel, Ayre Hoteles, Agroturismo Sa Talaia and Mallorca Rocks Hotel.
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About PayTouch:
PayTouch is a technology-based startup that has developed a biometric system of identification and fingerprints payment. It was founded in 2009 and is now on its second investment round. The system is comfortable, efficient and safe.
The users can be identified and pay with the fingertips. In addition, they can obtain priority access or benefit from discounts and promotions. This technology can be used wherever and whenever, without the need to carry cash or cards.
PayTouch offers to the establishments an efficient system that allows them to speed up and optimize the process of identification and payment of their customers: making payments easier and faster thus avoiding waiting times or queues. This enables them to offer a more personalized service to their customers. PayTouch allows the segmentation of customers, real-time monitoring of transactions which can be either segmented by terminals or monitored as a whole, Business Intelligence reports, management tools for loyalty schemes, etc.
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