SAM Magazine - Stevens Pass, Wash., September 8, 2008 - Washington resort Steven's Pass will be adding RFID technology to the ski area's lift tickets this season. The system will use technology from RTP and SKIDATA.

Stevens Pass will be one of the first resort-wide deployments of the new RTP-SKIDATA integrated ticketing, RFID access control and point-of-sale system that manages all resort operations, including lift access control, ticketing and season pass sales, ski and snowboard school, retail and rental operations, and eCommerce.

The new system will allow Stevens Pass to offer a variety of ticket and pass options, all of which will be issued on ticket or pass media with embedded RFID chips.

RTP's eCommerce capabilities allow guests to reload the media online with additional tickets or products, so guests can use one piece of media for several seasons. Guests can also purchase at select local retail locations which will allow the guests to go "direct to lift" and avoid the ticket sales lines. Once at the lift, the guests will experience "hands free" access to the lifts, since they will no longer need to have an operator manually check or scan their tickets.

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