Monday, January 4, 2010

INTRUST Bank Arena and Select-A-Seat Now Offer Mobile Phone Tickets

Ticketing gets easier with ProVenueMobile™

(WICHITA, KS) – Chris Presson, General Manager of the INTRUST Bank Arena, proudly announced that tickets for Arena events can now be purchased and accessed via mobile phones. Tickets.com has partnered with top developers to bring Select-A-Seat, the Arena’s authorized ticketing agency, two revolutionary new technologies, ProVenueMobile™ and Tickets@Phone®.

Presson commented, “Mobile ticket purchasing and delivery will be available for all INTRUST Bank Arena events through www.selectaseat.com in 2010. As a modern venue, we’re pleased to be able to offer the latest technology for ticket purchasing and delivery, allowing patrons to buy tickets in real-time and receive a secure, digital ticket on their phones in mere minutes. This is an added customer convenience – one of our top priorities – and we’re hopeful that this option will be embraced by our customers.”

As the leading global provider of high-tech ticket solutions, Tickets.com enabled ProVenueMobile™ and Tickets@Phone® to cater to the growing consumer demand to use mobile phones to do everything home computers do. Tickets.com is the first to offer both ticket purchases and delivery via mobile phone in the United States.

“We focus on bringing tangible value to our clients by partnering with the best of the best technology developers, who create intuitive, easy-to-use, services that meet the needs of today’s on-the-go customer,” said Steve DeMots, Senior Vice President of Business Development for Tickets.com.

Tickets.com mobile partners include Usablenet Inc. and U.K. based Mobiqa.

While not all venues for which Select-A-Seat provides ticket purchases will allow ticket delivery to mobile phones, this option is available for all INTRUST Bank Arena events. After Arena customers purchase their tickets via the mobile site, they will be offered options for ticket delivery: will call, mail, print at home or mobile delivery to their cells phones where they can receive the secure, digital bar-coded picture message that serves as their ticket.

For additional information on the INTRUST Bank Arena, please visit www.intrustbankarena.com.