CENTAMAN Systems, a leader in ticketing, reservations, point of sale and CRM solutions for the attractions industry won the best new product award for its ticketing, retail and restaurant point-of-sale system at the IAAPA Expo in Las Vegas last month.

CENTAMAN was evaluated by IAAPA based on a comprehensive implementation at Sahara Sam's Oasis Water Park in West Berlin, NJ, USA that includes CENTAMAN's innovative cashless payment system.

Ilya Girlya, president of Sahara Sam's, said "I'm very pleased that CENTAMAN won the award. They have a great product and were the only company that had a complete solution that was flexible enough to meet our needs. The support is great and I think it's the best solution of its type to be offered in North America."

CENTAMAN won first place for the category Revenue and Admission Control/Wristbands/RFID. Entries for the Best New Product Awards are judged on the benefit of the product to the customer, originality or uniqueness of the product and the quality of the product's design.

John Hancock Observatory in Chicago also won an award for its website - which is based on CENTAMAN web technology products.

Photograph: Photo is Michael Pacey, State Manager, CENTAMAN Systems Pty and Daniel Thomas, General Manager of the John Hancock Observatory.