Apple’s new payment method Apple Pay is not introduced at Nordic Choice Hotels. The first is Comfort Hotel Xpress Central Station in Oslo. During the year the technology will arrive at all of the hotel chain’s hotels. This makes Nordic Choice Hotels the first hotel chain in the Nordics, and one of the first outside of the US, that provides their guests with a cashless payment through Apple Pay.

– We have the guest in focus in everything we do. We look at their needs and how we cam make their stay at us as good as possible. This is why it has been natural for us to provide our guests with a cash free payment method through Apple Pay. It’s a convenient, safe and quick way to handle payments which is why we now quickly have adjusted our system so that Apple Pay can be used, says Oscar Edholm, CIO Nordic Choice Hotels.

The Apple Pay service is based on the used swiping their smartphone or Apple Watch over a card reader to complete their payment. The service was launched in the US in the fall of 2014 and is now being introduced in many markets around the world.