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How Hospitality and Entertainment Brands Can Future-Proof the Guest Experience

inmoment

Last week, I led a roundtable discussion at the Future Guest Experience 2019 conference, where I had a chance to chat with executives and CX experts who are searching for ways to future-proof their guest experiences. Here are a few strategies to get you started: Improving Experiences Today.

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4 Guest Experience Trends in the Restaurant Business: Engaged Employees, Third-Party Delivery and More!

inmoment

While these statistics may seem grim, focusing on guest experience can help to revitalize the numbers. The first trend that stood out was how important frontline employees continue to be in the guest experience. A leader of a large Mississippi-based franchise group noted: “we have two businesses: people and pizza.”.

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Five Ways Hotels Can Build a Successful Digital Strategy for Improving Guest Experience

Avaya

With the right technology, organizations can even build learning algorithms to bring intelligence into the last mile of routing selection, enabling them to match customers based on several deeper variables such as personality, emotion and call outcome.

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Great hotel experience? Think More Proximity Marketing and Less Bubbly Soaps 

Optimove

Savvy hoteliers are on standby, ready to elevate and optimize the guest experience, cultivating valuable, long-term connections, and boosting the bottom line – and doing a substantial chunk of it through, you guessed it, their mobile app! billion in 2021 to a whopping $4.5 billion this year. We love our hotel apps.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of September 4, 2023

ShepHyken

The five ideas in this article are exactly what he uses when leading his team to deliver a great guest experience. Customer Service as Experience: Fast, Consistent Comms Boost Customer Lifetime Value by Andy Farmer (The Drum) Is it me or do we seem to be stuck in a customer experience (CX) time warp?

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Be Prepared – Will Your Robotic Experience Work For You?

Beyond Philosophy

Wes has a compartment big enough to hold a couple of towels, and an array of cute sounds and blinking lights that endear him to guests the way Star Wars fans fawn over R2-D2 and BB-8. West Wing’s director of revenue says that he was looking for technology that would be unique and memorable for guests but also helpful to hotel staff.

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HITEC 2017 is Happening Now: What You Need to Know

Avaya

Technology is no longer part of the guest experience; it is the guest experience. Today, 40% of guests now regularly use hotel mobile apps. Overall, two-thirds say they have a better hotel experience when brands leverage the latest technologies. That’s exactly why HITEC 2017 exists.

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