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You could soon be checking into hotels with just a QR code

The Jurys Inn Hotel Group is to pilot a new system where customers collect their keys from a mobile kiosk.

A NEW METHOD of checking into hotels using just a QR code is to be piloted by the Jurys Inn Hotel Group.

The scheme, already active at one of the group’s hotels in the United Kingdom and in other hotel around the world, allows guests to “bypass the front desk entirely” by picking up their keys from a mobile kiosk in the hotel.

Guests do this by scanning a QR code which has been sent to their phone, having confirmed their arrival times via text or email ahead of their arrival.

The move is a response to a large increase in the number of bookings made on mobile devices.

“Our customers are increasingly using mobile devices to make bookings so it is important we adapt our services in line with this changing consumer behaviour,” Group Marketing Manager Suzanne Cannon said.

Between 2012 and 2013, the hotel group saw the number of customers making bookings from mobile devices increase by 80 per cent, with visits to the hotel’s website increasing by 110 per cent in the same period.

The hotel group aims to roll this service out to 31 hotels in across Ireland, the United Kingdom, and in Prague.

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    Jun 12th 2015, 11:09 AM

    Ya wouldn’t get it anywhere else only Ireland

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    Jun 12th 2015, 11:06 AM

    That man in no way looks fit or athletic…. If anything he looks malnourished and devoid of any muscle tone what so ever.

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    Jun 12th 2015, 11:11 AM

    Like a lot of crossfit “atheletes”

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    Jun 12th 2015, 12:12 PM

    It’s a joke Drew.

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    Jun 12th 2015, 12:26 PM

    jaysus drew we can’t bring ye anywhere!

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    Jun 12th 2015, 12:58 PM

    Mad Bogstards!

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    Jun 12th 2015, 1:02 PM

    I get that… What I don’t get is if his body is part of the joke?

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    Jun 12th 2015, 1:17 PM

    @Rob, i now defo agree with you.

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    Jun 12th 2015, 11:55 AM

    Too funny !!!!

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    Jun 12th 2015, 11:04 AM

    Boggers.

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    Jun 12th 2015, 1:17 PM

    Concrete jungle bunny.

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    Jun 12th 2015, 12:40 PM

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    Jun 12th 2015, 1:11 PM

    Come around to my gaff and chop some wood,whilst I drink wine.I promise it will make you fit

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    Jun 12th 2015, 2:21 PM

    Brilliant he should bring it to the dragons den

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    Jun 12th 2015, 12:31 PM

    Bog fit will be taxed in coming budget , will be seen as a fauna and flora protection measure…. FFS Michael we cant let the boggers back on the bog ! The Ming will be up roaring again!

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    Jun 12th 2015, 6:19 PM

    it won’t catch on there is no mirrors.

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    Jun 12th 2015, 3:16 PM

    Hero

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