Scandic Hotels won the award for its digital-out at Grand Travel Award, the travel industry's big gala at the Grand Hotel. The big winner at this year's gala was the SAS who took home no less than three prices.
Before the 650 guests were awarded Scandic Hotels for the inaugural Year award Digital Performance for its digital out with the motivation: "Scandic shows the way by doing away with the dull checkout. Via an SMS or email, the guest can check it out with a few clicks and even pay for the mini bar. "
- Scandic out was arguably the most innovative service that the travel industry created last year. Moreover, it has practical significance for the traveler who can easily check out and beat the queues, says Urban Lindstedt, editor of Travel News and president of the digital jury.
Then in November, Scandic has launched the service at all its hotels in the Nordic region and is thus the first hotel chain in the world to introduce digital checkout on all their hotels in a region.