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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

Voxi is the ‘youth brand’ of Vodafone, whose highly successful VeryMe rewards program has previously been praised by Currency Alliance. 15,000 members participated before the Loyalty Magazine Awards submission deadline (February 2020), and by March, the trial had been rolled out permanently to stores UK-wide[i].

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

The best-known loyalty programs are made up of many partnerships – such as United Airlines and Hilton Hotels, or Emirates and Marriott. The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. Vueling is similar.

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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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10 Cool Chatbot Examples to Inspire Your Project

Inbenta

Tourism, hospitality, and leisure companies have been extremely touched by the Covid pandemic, with thousands of canceled flights, hotel bookings, and more. In 2020, the chatbot received almost 900,000 inquiries and handled 90% of them on its own. . TravelClub is the leader reward program in Spain with over 6 million subscribers.

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

Currency Alliance

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty. So, with that context, what will be the top loyalty trends in 2020? Some stars are sticks.

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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. Choice Hotels’ Smart Privilege scheme is another good example.

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It’s (almost) never 1%: how to price loyalty rewards

Currency Alliance

On the cusp of 2020, 1% is almost never the right amount. Rewards are transactional; loyalty is emotional. Loyalty programs are effectively a value exchange, in which there ought to be both emotional and transactional forms of value. This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board.

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