March 27, 2002
TULSA, Okla. - New interactive kiosks will help Dollar Rent A Car customers obtain travel information at Atlanta, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Las Vegas and Los Angeles airports.
The kiosks, called Dollar Travel Centers, are located at the Dollar pickup and return areas at each airport.
Using a touchscreen, customers can make air, hotel and Dollar car rental reservations; obtain U.S. weather forecasts, driving directions and event information; access their Web-based e-mail accounts, browse the Web for free, and view the day's top headline news.
Dollar partnered with the Official Kiosk Group Inc. (OKG), based in Miami, Fla., to create the Dollar Travel Center.
Dollar Rent A Car, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. (NYSE: DTG), has a fleet of 78,000 vehicles in approximately 430 worldwide locations in 26 countries, including Australia, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America. The car rental company has 260 locations in the United States.
The Official Kiosk Group Inc., a subsidiary of Advanced Multimedia Group Inc.,
specializes in kiosk deployment and custom kiosk systems. The company offers project planning, monitoring and maintenance, enclosures, integration of hardware and software, site modification, interface design, installation, networking, data collection, and analysis reporting. OKG has been operating Internet kiosk systems in convention centers, stadiums, corporate centers and hotel properties since 1999.