Patent ID: 8775244

Claim:
A method for managing attraction attendance levels through tracking current attendance levels and notifying patrons of incentives to alter their attraction selections in real-time, the method comprising: identifying a queue of an attraction of a plurality of attractions that has a customer wait time that exceeds a threshold maximum wait time; in response to identifying that the queue has the customer wait time that exceeds the threshold maximum wait time, a processor automatically: determining that a tracking device is associated with a registered customer and is located within the queue; creating, from metadata that is associated with the registered customer, an incentive comprising a discount redeemable at an alternative attraction of the plurality of attractions; offering, to the registered customer, the created incentive in association with an expiration time period; and conditioning acceptance of the offer upon determining that the registered customer exits the queue and redeems the discount at the alternative attraction prior to a lapse of the offer expiration time period.