TICKET touts hoping to profit from the UK's biggest rock festival have been routed by a Huddersfield firm.
Majestic Design has devised a new online booking system to ensure tickets for this summer's Glastonbury Festival don't fall into the hands of touts.
The new system requires would-be festival-goers to register their details online during February to get a unique registration ID.
This ID can then be used to order tickets online on April 1.
As part of the security measures, people registering will have to submit a passport-sized photo, which will be printed on their ticket.
The registration system has been developed by Majestic, which is based at the former Majestic Cinema on Green Street/Viaduct Street.
The system has been specially set up to cope with the massive demand from festival fans.
Majestic collaborated with online ticketing company See Tickets for the last Glastonbury event two years ago, when all 112,000 tickets sold out within three hours of going on sale.
Referring to this latest collaboration Majestic managing director Julien Balmforth said: "Majestic and See Tickets worked together over several months to ensure that the online registration process would provide satisfactory for all users.
"We are extremely pleased with the results achieved."
He added: "The registration process has attracted extremely positive feedback on numerous Glastonbury Festival forums.
"It has already succeeded in processing a significant number of registrations."
Majestic, formed in 1991, is one of the North's leading providers of internet services, offering consultancy, web hosting and design, systems testing and marketing.
It has set up and handled online ticketing systems for major events, including sell-out tours by Robbie Williams and the Arctic Monkeys.
It has provided internet services for clients such as retail buying group Nisa-Today and online mapping business Geographer's A-Z Map Co.
