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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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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. Your members will thank you—and so will your agents.

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9 Ways You Can Spring Clean your CX

Kitewheel

For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers. For example, many retailers send a welcome email after you sign up for their rewards program. Brand your omnichannel journey. Connect channel activities and customer experiences.

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Top 6 Loyalty Trends for 2020: digital transformation for an open future

Currency Alliance

Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty. Reward programs are changing, but they are not going away. To incentivize customers to progress through purchase funnels, brands are recognizing that additional touchpoints should be rewarded. Good omnichannel experience continues to get more budget.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. This past summer, the supermarket decided to offer reward points to customers who bring their own re-usable carrier bags. A useful set of segments might include: For Travel. Segmentation.

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Loyalty Tech: Migrate to Microservices, or Get Left Behind

Currency Alliance

If that CRM is independent of your other loyalty modules, that will unlock much greater agility in setting up and driving omnichannel campaigns. At its most fundamental, the Points Bank records earning and redemption transactions – so it’s more likely to be required if you have a points/miles based rewards program.

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