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How to create loyal customers and brand evangelists in the travel and hospitality industry

Up Your Service

This post makes the same point, but for the travel and hospitality – one of the most traditional “service” industries on the planet. Read on… Customer loyalty is a powerful marketing force that travel and hospitality businesses are always chasing. By David Harrington. The rise of white-glove customer service.

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How Important is Customer Service in Travel and Tourism?

Bold360

Travel and tourism can be difficult areas for retaining customer loyalty, with websites set up exclusively to pit brands against one another on the best deals for hotels and rock-bottom prices on flights. Many businesses in the travel industry have tried out loyalty schemes and reward programs with varied success.

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Tapping Into Real-Time Customer Input

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to interview Amy Jackson, Senior Director of Brand Strategy and Consumer Marketing for TripIt from Concur while I was at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas back in March. If you travel a bit, as I do, this app can be a lifesaver. Vocal customers offer valuable ideas.

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Building a Better Loyalty Program (and the Reward for Getting It Right)

BlueOcean

Your customers don’t view your CRM and marketing separately–they view all your communication as your brand, so it is imperative that your CRM and loyalty program are cohesive and send the same message. McKinsey agrees, saying that “earn and burn” transactional rewards programs aren’t enough to retain loyal members.

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The Impact of Casino Loyalty Programs on Satisfaction, Emotional Binds, Loyalty, and Price Sensitivity

CSM Magazine

There is hardly any online or land-based casino that doesn’t offer some kind of a loyalty program, like the iRush Rewards program or any other like this. But do those programs really work, and how? These programs not only aim to keep the dice rolling but also to decode the preferences of the diverse casino audience.

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Are You Delighting Customers on an Emotional Level?

CSM Magazine

It explains in detail how deeply the advertisement content or different modes of customer connections influence the emotional response of the consumer and their decision making. However, the rewards and gifts shouldn’t be limited to occasions only. For happy customers, keep rewarding them from time to time. Create Memes.

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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

Currency Alliance

They’re a low-cost incentive compared to other forms of incentives such as discounts, cashback, affiliate marketing offers, or paying for search traffic from Google. Nobody with $100 in pesos leftover from a recent trip would travel back to Mexico just to spend them, but they might exchange them back into dollars.