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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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Three Travel and Hospitality Customer Journey Tracking Examples

Kitewheel

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. But even these leading travel brands can do better. Things are improving for the travel industry, but the biggest multipliers of customer satisfaction seem largely to be left behind. There is huge market pressure to make great deals. This makes sense in some capacity.

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

BlueOcean

Salesforce reports that 55% of members would use their loyalty programs more if the rewards were personalized to reflect their unique needs. McKinsey agrees, saying that “earn and burn” transactional rewards programs aren’t enough to retain loyal members. Will you have senior leadership involved in your account?

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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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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. For airlines and hotel groups, frequent customers are business travelers, so their partner mixes are heavily biased toward fellow travel brands. The value can be immediate.

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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. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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10 Key Insights from 15 years of Customer Journey Mapping

SuiteCX

It was hard to boil these down to just 10, but we think these are the most important insights to emerge from over 100 client engagements. 10 Key Insights from 15 Years of Customer Journey Mapping Case Studies January, 2015. Click here to view SlideShare. Yep, we’ve been at this a while.