Optimove

JULY 19, 2022

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. Who took them?

Hotels 52

Hotels Marketing Guest Experience Travel 52

Bill Quiseng

AUGUST 10, 2015

Micah Solomon is a customer service and marketing speaker, strategist, and author of the book, High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service. Ever since reading his book, I have been following his customer experience articles on Forbes. Micah even discusses how technology has and will change the guest experience.

Hospitality 149

Hospitality Culture Hotels Guest Experience 149

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 5, 2017

Ryan Hamilton’s and my latest book, The Intuitive Customer. The personal touch of the experience had gone, been lost and missed. People who stay at boutique hotels often choose them because of the service and personal interactions they provide. Can robots help the hotel guest experience? What do you think?

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Hotels Travel Books Guest Experience 143

LoyaltyPlus

JUNE 12, 2022

There are opportunities to be had by implementing a loyalty programme to establish a direct relationship with guests. Using information about people’s interactions and preferences, accommodation purchases and amenity rewards can significantly enhance the overall guest experience and result in return visits.

Hotels 52

Hotels Tourism Guest Experience Social Media 52

Stella Connect

JANUARY 18, 2022

In the early stages of my career I analyzed my interactions with brands, products or services, looking for common themes — a crazy-making activity that eventually led to my first book, The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences. Three Things Every Business Needs to Create Great Customer Experiences.

Customer Experience 102

Customer Experience Contact Center Guest Experience Culture 102

inmoment

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Guest experiences don’t exist in siloes. From marketing to HR and operations, your entire organization plays a role in delivering memorable customer experiences (CX) and interactions that lead to increased customer loyalty. . Finance: Think finance is removed from guest experiences? Think again.

Feedback 40

Feedback Guest Experience Webinar Interaction 40

ENGAGE.cx

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Before booking the room, you want to check a few details about the property, so you make a call to the company’s customer service department. She answers your questions about the property, puts the booking through for you with the discount applied. A Connected Customer Engagement solution like ENGAGE.cx

Engagement 40

Engagement Guest Experience Hotels Hospitality 40

delighted

JANUARY 28, 2020

If surveys are sent too long after a purchase/interaction, customers will more than likely forget the critical details of their experiences. Transactional feedback is prompted just a short time after a customer engages with a company, typically following a purchase or support request to measure the quality of that specific interaction.

NPS 44

NPS Hotels Net Promoter Score Retail 44

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While I can go on and on about Ed’s visionary leadership, ability to inspire teams to greatness, top-drawer guest experience delivery and his ability to manage in a crisis, I want to talk about Ed Mady’s signed baseballs. In any case, the arrival experience was memorable and a signature for the brand. Ok, where is this going?

Brands 45

Brands Hotels Magazine Leadership 45

Qualtrics

JULY 2, 2019

That insight, combined with customer feedback, is why we launched Online Reputation Management which enables brands to amplify, analyze and interact with customers and the reviews they leave on major review sites like App Store and Yelp. Book a demo to see how it all works. Book a Demo. Faster, simpler in-app reviews.

Innovation 39

Innovation Social Media Download NPS 39

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

But in reality, many customers do not book direct. Beyond the booking process, and to complement the digital guest experience, hotels stand to make the greatest gains by becoming better resellers of local services and experiences. Restive guests: understanding hospitality loyalty.

Hotels 40

Hotels Hospitality Loyalty Travel 40

ENGAGE.cx

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Before booking the room, you want to check a few details about the property, so you make a call to the company’s customer service department. She answers your questions about the property, puts the booking through for you with the discount applied. A customer-experience driven B2C CRM like ENGAGE.cx

Guest Experience 72

Guest Experience Hospitality Hotels B2C 72

Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I got suckered into cold calling newspaper subscriptions and really, I mean, I just kind of, I got, I never tried to actually try to steer away from it, but I somehow kept getting sucked back into customer experience and contact center types of roles. It was built around incredibly transactional types of interactions, often, very basic.

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Metrics Measurement Customer Experience 98

Martin Hill-Wilson

JULY 23, 2016

His organisation has just installed a hotel bot using interactive text response. Booking a hotel room – see Expedia’s early experiments. Being served as a hotel guest – experience Edward at the Radisson Blu Edwardian in London. Heard of MyWave , Mindmeld , creativevirtual , myclever and x.ai ?

Hotels 40

Hotels Guest Experience Brands Banking 40

Comm100

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sephora is using its presence on messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger not only to connect users around the world to the right customer service team, but also to help customers book makeover appointments and even “test” beauty products. It’s really magic to experience.”. It takes little to no time to get an update on your card.

Exceptional Customer Service 40

Exceptional Customer Service 2018 Customer Service Hotels 40

ENGAGE.cx

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The key to building loyalty and providing great customer experiences to increase customer engagement starts with collecting and optimizing guest data: Mapping the Guest Lifecycle: A guest’s journey, or “Guest Lifecycle,” is made up of each and every touch point a guest has with a brand or property.

Customer Engagement 65

Customer Engagement Engagement Guest Experience Hospitality 65

Michel Falcon Experience

APRIL 13, 2023

It was four years before he wrote the book. Michel Falcon: My last question, Cameron, it actually has to do with the guest experience. So you go to a fast casual restaurant, how do you define a brilliant guest experience within a fast casual restaurant? Michel Falcon: Cameron, you’ve written four books.

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Culture 2003 ROI Leadership 60

Avaya

JUNE 27, 2017

Technology is no longer part of the guest experience; it is the guest experience. Today, 40% of guests now regularly use hotel mobile apps. Over 80% prefer automatic notifications for such things as booking confirmations and room readiness. And 67% would sign up for location-based coupons and alerts.

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2017 Hospitality Guest Experience Hotels 53