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Hospitality Brands: Facing the Pressure with Digital Solutions

Lithium

Everyone has had those horrid travel days. Nothing seems to top off a bad travel experience than a flight getting canceled or having a hotel lose your room reservation. Unfortunately for millions of people in recent memory, having a flight canceled is practically baked into the travel plans. Everything seems to go wrong.

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

Currency Alliance

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. Many people who travelled regularly (until overseas card payments became the norm) collected coins and banknotes from dozens of different countries, holding them for decades.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. voucher-based. Great service in unexpected places.

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Guest Post: Combine Customer Service and Customer Experience to Grow Your Business

ShepHyken

However, Julie goes one step further as it combines effective CX with customer service to help travelers book their rail travel and assist them by pre-filling forms. As Julie’s usage grew by 50%, Amtrak saved $1 million in customer service costs and realized an 800% ROI. Give Personalization with Live Chat.

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Get 57% Purchase Growth Rate with Outsource Live Chat

Magellan Solutions

This is based on Statista’s survey before the pandemic. Whether for business growth, sales or ROI increase. Provides customer with vital human support. Clear up doubts and tailor deals and financial options for customers based on their website activity. Travel with 0.72%. Manufacturing. Healthcare.

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8 Insightful Customer Journey Analytics Examples and Use Cases

Pointillist

Customer Journey Analytics Example #2: Measure and Improve CX Customer experience, analytics and marketing professionals across industries report that measuring CX is one of the top five biggest challenges encountered today. For that reason, customer churn rate is a key business metric for enterprises across industries.

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Next-Generation Loyalty Marketing (for experts)

Currency Alliance

The slide below shows these spending categories arranged from the perspective of a supermarket loyalty program , but the same theory also applies to a loyalty program in the travel sector. But I still would ensure the points that the customers collect in this open network of partners could be spent on travel.

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