Magellan Solutions

JANUARY 19, 2024

The front desk is the heart of a hotel, managing guest experiences and providing 24/7 hospitality. The front desk always prioritizes guest needs. It makes every moment memorable and elevates the customer experience. It makes guests feel genuinely appreciated and looked after. Your success is our commitment.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 16, 2024

Specifically, the world’s leading brands have begun using contact center AI to create a more efficient and effective customer service experience. By integrating these advanced technologies, these companies aim to streamline customer interaction, automate routine tasks, and optimize their overall operations. What is Contact Center AI?

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Avaya

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

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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Customer Bliss

APRIL 19, 2019

“The expectations of people, thanks to technology, are different. You want it now, you want it fast, you want good service, you want it with no friction,” says Fernando Machado, Global Chief Marketing Officer at Burger King, regarding the company’s transformation to improve its guest experience and meet customer needs.

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Magellan Solutions

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Essence of 24/7 Hotel Management 24/7 hotel management takes center stage, creating exceptional guest experiences. Significance in the Hospitality Tapestry At the core of exceptional guest experiences lies ongoing management. It connects every step of a guest’s journey. Read along!

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ShepHyken

JUNE 25, 2019

They discuss pursuing your passion, creating convenience, and balancing technology with a human connection. Even if they’re not your direct competitors, companies like Amazon and Uber have created an expectation of a certain level of guest experience thanks to technology and convenience. A Passion for Convenience.

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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.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

In an age where digital convenience is no longer a luxury but a basic expectation, the hotel industry faces the challenge of constantly evolving to meet and exceed guests’ needs. One innovation leading this transformation is the rise of chatbots, designed not only to streamline processes but to enrich the overall guest experience.

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ReviewTrackers

MAY 11, 2018

Technology is shaking up the restaurant and foodservice industry. The end-to-end guest experience — from research and reservations to ordering, delivery, consumption, and payment — can now happen in a handful of screen taps or mouse clicks. Focus on Guest Experience = Increase Customer Satisfaction.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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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Alida

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Before acquiring the Marvel and Star Wars universes, Walt Disney had established a long history of obsessing about great guest experiences, so a focus on its bricks-and-mortar presence is nothing new to the entertainment company. Make it magical.

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Forrester

JUNE 4, 2015

a truly enhanced guest experience, powered by technology and enabled by ops excellence. We looked for the ways that technology could transform the guest experience vs. focusing on the latest gadgets for the sake of being "first" or "cutting edge." If you look at the way we approached 2.0,

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

How teaching your employees to provide great guest experiences increases sales by Alyssa Hanson . Fast Casual) A restaurant’s strongest competitive differentiator is the experience they offer their guests. Build A 5-Star Customer Experience With Artificial Intelligence by Alston Ghafourifar and Michael Evans.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 1, 2022

Inspired by the company’s namesake, Cesar Ritz (who said “the customer is always right”), the brand continues to be synonymous with luxurious and nurturing guest experiences. So let’s explore five lessons on fostering service excellence and elevated experiences.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 28, 2023

Embrace innovation and emerging technologies: Stay abreast of technological advancements and innovations that can enhance the customer experience. Hence, this innovation saves time for guests and improves operational efficiency.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 5, 2017

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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inmoment

JANUARY 28, 2020

Auntie Anne’s understands that the guest experience and the employee experience are closely connected. The implementation of an intelligent tool such as the XI Platform directly increased Auntie Anne’s bottom line, more than justifying the technology investment for skeptical, higher-up business executives.

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Avaya

MARCH 13, 2017

From international chains to cruise lines to boutique inns and B&Bs, the hospitality industry has hundreds of millions of individuals checking in, checking out and expecting next-generation guest experiences in between—so front office operations are crucial for growth and continuity.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

(CX360Service) In the last decade, humanity has achieved a significant number of technological advance which are bound to make a huge impact in our lives and the way we do business. Tom Reilly Training) Hilton is known for their award-winning guest experience. How to Add Unexpected Value by Paul Reilly.

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Bill Quiseng

AUGUST 10, 2015

Their collective insight focuses on all the key ingredients to deliver an exceptional guest experience – hiring the right people, developing the necessary internal systems and hospitality standards, creating the proper service culture, and defining steps for service recovery.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

As such, a virtual contact centre was created to support its stores in managing the booking experience, which extended its PCI compliance requirements. As a result, we created a virtual contact centre to support our 85 UK stores, to help reduce administrative burdens on staff in our stores so they can instead focus on the guest experience.

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inmoment

JANUARY 28, 2020

Auntie Anne’s understands that the guest experience and the employee experience are closely connected. The implementation of an intelligent tool such as the XI Platform directly increased Auntie Anne’s bottom line, more than justifying the technology investment for skeptical, higher-up business executives. .

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Totango

JUNE 25, 2020

SevenRooms is a hospitality platform designed to help operators maximize profits, build customer loyalty, and create truly exceptional guest experiences. They’re going to have to invest in more training, more health investment technologies. Restaurants are going to have to invest in more PPE.

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CSM Magazine

APRIL 11, 2023

According to research by Hubspot, 93% of guests have higher expectations than they did before the pandemic – and guest experience is king. Voice Search Technology Virtual assistants have made voice searches the norm, so it makes sense to incorporate this tech into both your website and your in-room facilities.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 30, 2023

Limited Resources and Budget: Implementing effective customer experience design often requires investments in technology, training, and resources. They are driven by technological advancements, industry trends, and the experiences they have had with other brands.

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BirdEye

JUNE 21, 2023

Knowing how your competitors are reacting to new technology will help you forecast your industry’s, along with your own, future. Airbnb monitors guest feedback without taking on the burden of hundreds of guest rooms. Instead, they hold property owners accountable for improving the guest experience.

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Thematic

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I hope you can learn from these customer experience best practices as well. David Garcia (VP of Guest Experiences @ Atlanta Hawks)?. Getting an equal understanding of content and technology. Get embedded with the technology teams to enact faster change. Crystal Collier (Customer Experience Consultant)?.

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ReviewTrackers

AUGUST 30, 2017

A report from EY suggests that banks should segment their customers by technological and financial knowledge as opposed to basic demographic information, such as age and profession. The good news is that restaurants can create better guest experiences with data. Segment Customers by Knowledge.

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Storyminers

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Last week’s post predicted that customers won’t stand for technology that constantly sells to them. It predicted 2016 as the year predictive analytics and other ‘sensing’ technologies will be used to serve customers first. It naturally aligns the many clues (experience details) in the experience to be on brand.

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NetBase

MARCH 2, 2020

He explained that Social Media Intelligence is the result of applying the right mix of technology, expertise, methodology and process to derive focused, and business relevant insight from digital and social media data. Social Media Intelligence vs Listening, what the difference and why does it matter? Nick Love is happy to tell you.

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Smith+co CX

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The third had a notice informing guests that due to Covid they had suspended their usual breakfast buffet but were using this as an opportunity to enhance the guest experience by providing a full hot and cold breakfast service at the table. link] Reboot your organisation and rethink your Employee Experience.

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Clarabridge

MAY 4, 2017

Later in the day, Adam Lamb, Guest Experience Manager of The Restaurant Group, led a session about the creative and unexpected ways the Restaurant Group is going above and beyond to delight customers using social media. The Restaurant Group Spills on How They Go Above and Beyond for Their Customers.

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Kayako

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Humanistic experience is achieved when employees are armed and enabled to deliver on the brand promise. The technology and tools can’t replace real-time passion, or a genuine commitment to the organization, brand, and customers”. They are authorized to spend up to $2,000 per guest per day to ensure guest satisfaction.

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Storyminers

APRIL 24, 2018

Vacasa delivers a great guest experience. These are what enable them to economically thrive while delivering consistently good experiences across 8,000 properties around the world. The unique aspects of Vacasa’s business design include: Yield management technology that helps owners optimize pricing. TAKE-AWAYS.

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inmoment

APRIL 22, 2019

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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Storyminers

APRIL 24, 2018

Vacasa delivers a great guest experience. These are what enable them to economically thrive while delivering consistently good experiences across 8,000 properties around the world. The unique aspects of Vacasa’s business design include: Yield management technology that helps owners optimize pricing. TAKE-AWAYS.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Intelliflo’s technology truly changed the game in the FinTech industry. ReviewPro won the Experience Maker Award, which honors an organization’s ability to improve the experience of customers and personalize relationships at scale. They quickly won their spot as the market-leading specialized financial platform in the UK.

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