BirdEye

JANUARY 24, 2025

Travelers now rely on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok to discover and book their next trip. Therefore, hotels must do more than exist on these channelsthey need a tailored approach to connect with guests, build trust, and showcase their unique selling points.

Social Media 52

Social Media Hotels Marketing Travel 52

Bill Quiseng

AUGUST 10, 2015

Micah Solomon is a customer service and marketing speaker, strategist, and author of the book, High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service. Ever since reading his book, I have been following his customer experience articles on Forbes. Micah even discusses how technology has and will change the guest experience.

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Hospitality Culture Hotels Guest Experience 133

Eptica

JULY 15, 2020

Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Author: Guest author: Jeanne Bliss Does your customer experience pass the #MakeMomProud test? Author: Guest author: Jeanne Bliss The latest book from customer experience expert Jeanne Bliss is based on a simple idea. Published on: July 15, 2020.

Customer Experience 119

Customer Experience Guest Experience Hotels Hospitality 119

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 5, 2017

Ryan Hamilton’s and my latest book, The Intuitive Customer. The personal touch of the experience had gone, been lost and missed. People who stay at boutique hotels often choose them because of the service and personal interactions they provide. Can robots help the hotel guest experience? What do you think?

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Hotels Travel Books Guest Experience 143

InMoment XI

JUNE 7, 2024

Positive reviews and glowing recommendations can drive bookings, while negative reviews can deter potential guests. Download the Report Hotel Reputation Management Strategies for Success There are various ways to improve the hospitality experience for your guests, but every great hotel reputation is built upon similar strategies.

Hotels 195

Hotels Management Social Media Hospitality 195

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2025

Instead, they operate on a global scale, interacting with customers from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. AI-driven tools improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, enabling companies to handle multilingual interactions seamlessly. Businesses are no longer confined to local or regional markets.

2025 52

2025 E-support Customer Satisfaction E Commerce 52

Eptica

JULY 29, 2020

Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Author: Guest author: Jeanne Bliss Does your customer experience pass the #MakeMomProud test? Author: Guest author: Jeanne Bliss In our latest guest posts, CX expert Jeanne Bliss has been sharing case studies from her new book Would You Do That To Your Mother?

Customer Experience 98

Customer Experience Airlines Guest Experience Hotels 98

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With the introduction of artificial intelligence, the way restaurants interact with their guests is evolving rapidly. From automated order processing and personalized recommendations to optimized feedback systems, AI is not only streamlining operations but also enhancing the customer experience in profound ways.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Social Media Competitive Advantage Customer Satisfaction 52

ENGAGE.cx

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The key to building loyalty and providing great customer experiences to increase customer engagement starts with collecting and optimizing guest data: Mapping the Guest Lifecycle: A guest’s journey, or “Guest Lifecycle,” is made up of each and every touch point a guest has with a brand or property.

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Customer Engagement Engagement Guest Experience Hospitality 65

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.

Hotels 52

Hotels Hospitality Guest Experience Books 52

Stella Connect

JANUARY 18, 2022

In the early stages of my career I analyzed my interactions with brands, products or services, looking for common themes — a crazy-making activity that eventually led to my first book, The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences. Three Things Every Business Needs to Create Great Customer Experiences.

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Customer Experience Contact Center Guest Experience Culture 102

Avaya

JUNE 27, 2017

Technology is no longer part of the guest experience; it is the guest experience. Today, 40% of guests now regularly use hotel mobile apps. Over 80% prefer automatic notifications for such things as booking confirmations and room readiness. And 67% would sign up for location-based coupons and alerts.

2017 53

2017 Hospitality Guest Experience Hotels 53

ENGAGE.cx

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Before booking the room, you want to check a few details about the property, so you make a call to the company’s customer service department. She answers your questions about the property, puts the booking through for you with the discount applied. A Connected Customer Engagement solution like ENGAGE.cx

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Engagement Guest Experience Hotels Hospitality 40

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. Who took them?

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Hotels Marketing Guest Experience Travel 52

CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Casinos are increasingly harnessing technology to elevate customer service, revolutionizing their interactions and support for patrons. By adopting advanced technologies, casinos strive to deliver a more personalized, efficient, and engaging experience.

Technology 52

Technology Customer Service Innovation Guest Experience 52

inmoment

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Guest experiences don’t exist in siloes. From marketing to HR and operations, your entire organization plays a role in delivering memorable customer experiences (CX) and interactions that lead to increased customer loyalty. . Finance: Think finance is removed from guest experiences? Think again.

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Feedback Guest Experience Webinar Interaction 40

Magellan Solutions

MAY 10, 2024

However, this success comes with challenges for hosts, who often find themselves overwhelmed with tasks such as responding to inquiries, managing bookings, and ensuring seamless guest communication. Improved Guest Experience A dedicated VA can communicate with guests promptly and professionally, addressing their queries and concerns.

Hospitality 52

Hospitality Competitive Advantage Guest Experience Books 52

Happy or Not

APRIL 1, 2025

While ai-driven customer feedback software, tools, and chatbots can streamline processes, excessive automation can lead to impersonal interactions, frustrating customers and reducing customer retention. At the same time, the experience remains fresh in the customers mind. What makes real-time feedback so effective?

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Feedback Net Promoter Score Customer Satisfaction Customer Retention 36

LoyaltyPlus

JUNE 12, 2022

There are opportunities to be had by implementing a loyalty programme to establish a direct relationship with guests. Using information about people’s interactions and preferences, accommodation purchases and amenity rewards can significantly enhance the overall guest experience and result in return visits.

Hotels 40

Hotels Tourism Guest Experience Social Media 40

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While I can go on and on about Ed’s visionary leadership, ability to inspire teams to greatness, top-drawer guest experience delivery and his ability to manage in a crisis, I want to talk about Ed Mady’s signed baseballs. In any case, the arrival experience was memorable and a signature for the brand. Ok, where is this going?

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Brands Hotels Magazine Leadership 45

delighted

JANUARY 28, 2020

If surveys are sent too long after a purchase/interaction, customers will more than likely forget the critical details of their experiences. Transactional feedback is prompted just a short time after a customer engages with a company, typically following a purchase or support request to measure the quality of that specific interaction.

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NPS Hotels Net Promoter Score Retail 44

Qualtrics

JULY 2, 2019

That insight, combined with customer feedback, is why we launched Online Reputation Management which enables brands to amplify, analyze and interact with customers and the reviews they leave on major review sites like App Store and Yelp. Book a demo to see how it all works. Book a Demo. Faster, simpler in-app reviews.

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Innovation Social Media Contact Center Download 39

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

But in reality, many customers do not book direct. Beyond the booking process, and to complement the digital guest experience, hotels stand to make the greatest gains by becoming better resellers of local services and experiences. Restive guests: understanding hospitality loyalty.

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Hotels Hospitality Loyalty Travel 40

Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I got suckered into cold calling newspaper subscriptions and really, I mean, I just kind of, I got, I never tried to actually try to steer away from it, but I somehow kept getting sucked back into customer experience and contact center types of roles. It was built around incredibly transactional types of interactions, often, very basic.

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Contact Center Metrics Measurement Customer Experience 85

Martin Hill-Wilson

JULY 23, 2016

His organisation has just installed a hotel bot using interactive text response. Booking a hotel room – see Expedia’s early experiments. Being served as a hotel guest – experience Edward at the Radisson Blu Edwardian in London. Heard of MyWave , Mindmeld , creativevirtual , myclever and x.ai ?

Hotels 40

Hotels Guest Experience Brands Banking 40

Comm100

AUGUST 23, 2018

Sephora is using its presence on messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger not only to connect users around the world to the right customer service team, but also to help customers book makeover appointments and even “test” beauty products. It’s really magic to experience.”. It takes little to no time to get an update on your card.

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Exceptional Customer Service 2018 Customer Service Hotels 45

Michel Falcon Experience

APRIL 13, 2023

It was four years before he wrote the book. Michel Falcon: My last question, Cameron, it actually has to do with the guest experience. So you go to a fast casual restaurant, how do you define a brilliant guest experience within a fast casual restaurant? Michel Falcon: Cameron, you’ve written four books.

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Culture 2003 ROI Leadership 60

Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The guest experience could be the difference between whether a guest returns or not. Explore the ways that organizations can use guest experience as a key factor of their success. What is guest experience? The guest experience is the cumulative effect of every interaction your guests have with you.

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Guest Experience 2021 Hotels Hospitality 49

BirdEye

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The right hospitality digital marketing approach, whether through engaging social media marketing, personalized email campaigns, or exceptional guest experiences, can turn a one-time visitor into a loyal customer. It involves strategies like online advertising, branding, loyalty programs, and direct guest engagement.

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Hotels Hospitality Marketing Guest Experience 84

BirdEye

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Australians trust Facebook recommendations because they often include real experiences, user-generated photos, and direct interactions between businesses and customers. Customers trust these platforms for specialised insights and recommendations, whether choosing a dentist, finding a tradesperson, or booking a hotel.

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