Abstract: Currently pre-printed signs are used for many functions and are not always appropriate or attractive. The present invention provides an electronic display with multiple pre-programmed messages. A particularly useful application is for preprogrammed messages to be displayed by a hotel guest on the corridor side of the hotel room door.

Abstract: Currently pre-printed signs are used for many functions and are not always appropriate or attractive. The present invention provides an electronic display with multiple pre-programmed messages. A particularly useful application is for preprogrammed messages to be displayed by a hotel guest on the corridor side of the hotel room door.

Abstract: Currently at airports, cruise ship terminals and the like disembarking travellers are met by travel personnel such as travel agents, taxi drivers etc. who have been hired to transport a particular traveller to a destination but do not personally know their target traveller and so display a hand-written sheet or sign with the traveller's name written thereon so that the target traveller will see his/her name and identify himself/herself to the travel personnel. Such greeting signs are often difficult to read due to poor lighting and are unprofessional looking. The present invention provides an illuminated greeting sign on which the greeting message can be easily changed, in particular by using a translucent back-lit panel, illuminated by a battery-powered light, on which erasable marker messages may be written.