Surreal, a Melbourne-headquartered provider of live entertainment management software, has revealed that an entertainment offering positively affects where Brits choose to go out. According to its latest report ‘Understanding Consumer Sentiment Towards Live Entertainment’, 61% said entertainment offerings are key to choosing a destination. Some 98% of the respondents also said that they would pay …
Softjourn expands into Brazil with new office
Softjourn, a software development company that specialises in ticketing, has announced that it has opened a new office in São Paulo, Brazil. The new office in Brazil will provide enhanced delivery centres for new and existing clients, offer new career opportunities for local IT professionals and expand Softjourn’s global footprint within Latin America. Emmy Gengler, …
Ice Cream Farm opts for Vennersys attraction management and ticketing solution
The Ice Cream Farm, a Cheshire, UK-based attraction, has partnered with Vennersys to utilise the attraction management and solution provider’s VenposCloud system. The attraction and farm is recognised as the largest ice cream shop in the world and welcomes more than 400,000 visitors annually. Prior to its partnership with Vennersys, the Ice Cream Farm operated …
RocketRez closes $15m Series B funding round
All-in-one ticketing and operations platform for tours and attractions, RocketRez, has closed a $15m (£12.2m/€13.8m) Series B funding round with growth capital firm, Level Equity. RocketRez will use the new funding to extend its capabilities for new clients, as well as tours and attractions already in its portfolio including Maui Ocean Center, Xtreme Xperience, Aquarium …
Ideas and Innovations to introduce new ticketing kiosk platform
Ideas and Innovations (I&I) has revealed a new retail ticketing platform in conjunction with its strategic ticketing partnerships for live events and theatre. I&I is a physical and digital technology marketing company that works alongside retail partners to create, develop and implement retail consumer kiosk programmes. The ticketing kiosk platform will offer I&I’s retail partners …
ECHL names Vivenu as preferred ticketing partner
The ECHL has announced that primary ticketing software provider, Vivenu, has been made the hockey league’s preferred primary ticketing partner. Vivenu’s platform will enable teams to manage all aspects of their ticketing in one place and is also fully customisable. As part of the new partnership, Vivenu will waive all onboarding fees for ECHL teams. …
Vivenu opens new tech hub and doubles headcount
Primary ticketing software provider Vivenu has opened a new tech hub in Darmstadt, Germany, as part of its growth aspirations. The company has also ramped up its hiring strategy, as a result of high demand for its primary ticketing solution across the US and Europe. Vivenu’s headcount has subsequently doubled over the last year. Vivenu …
Northumberland Zoo utilises N-gage tech to boost visitor experience
Northumberland Zoo in the UK has partnered with County Durham-based N-gage to implement the company’s audience engagement platform and attraction management software. The partnership with the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) developers and audience engagement specialists aims to creative an improved visitor experience. The technology will also help the zoo and aquarium sector to create strategies surrounding development …
Tix Ticketing becomes Tixly – TheTicketingBusiness News
Icelandic ticketing software company Tix Ticketing has rebranded to become Tixly. The company hopes that the new moniker will boost its global growth ambitions, with the cloud-based event ticketing system already utilised in nine European countries and North America. Tixly has also announced that founder Sindri Finnbogason (pictured left) is switching roles to become the …
Secutix Americas begins hunt for new chief
Secutix Americas has started its global search for a new leader, which will be led by outgoing chief executive Eric Rozenberg and Switzerland-based parent company ELCA CEO, Cèdric Moret. Rozenberg joined the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform in January 2018 and has agreed to stay until his replacement is found, in order to ease the transition. Secutix …