QuestionPro Audience

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

HOTEL/MOTEL/RESORT DESK CLERK. There are currently 125,000 people employed as front desk clerks working in hotels, motels and resorts, with millennials making up 52% of the total amount. from 2016 to 2026. A recent report from LiveCareer looked into the most popular jobs among millennials. and millennials comprise 55.2%

Hotels 102

Hotels Banking Course Report 102

Forrester

JULY 18, 2016

Between our Q3 2015 report and our 2016 report we saw modest but clear progress among many of those brands, as 58 out of 319 had a significant improvement in their experiences. We use this methodology to create an annual benchmark of CX quality at large US brands. Twenty-eight brands gained 5 points or more. Five industry averages rose.

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Wireless Customer Experience Government Hotels 40

ReviewTrackers

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

They wrote, “While these gains may seem modest, TripAdvisor rounds average ratings to the nearest half star: A hotel with a rating of 4.26 while a hotel with 4.24 Approximately one-third of the hotels we studied increased their rounded ratings by half a star or more within six months of their first management response.”.

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Study Hotels Feedback Financial 78

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 31, 2016

CNBC) Jillali “Jim” Elidrissi started working for New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel as a bellman shortly after arriving from Morocco in 1966. The post 5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of October 31, 2016 appeared first on Shep Hyken. My Comment: What can we learn about customer service from a bellman?

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Customer Service Hotels Customer Service Training Leadership 48

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I am delighted to have known Ed for years and am honored (beyond words) that he listed me as a member of his trusted personal board of directors in a recent article for Hotels Magazine. This week Ed Mady is being recognized as Hotelier of the World by Hotels Magazine at an awards ceremony at The Lotte New York Palace.

Brands 113

Brands Hotels Leadership Guest Experience 113

Martin Hill-Wilson

JANUARY 29, 2016

In April 2016, there is the first chance for UK service leaders to become fully immersed in the intelligent assistance opportunity. I can imagine robots scooting up and down the shop floor or greeting travellers arriving in a Tokyo hotel reception. Some of that is 2016 capability. Putting Intelligent Assistance On The Radar.

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Omni-Channel Roadmap Self Service Customer Journeys 40

ShepHyken

JULY 11, 2016

Or when a hotel charges separate WiFi fees for each device that’s used. The post 5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of July 11, 2016 appeared first on Shep Hyken. One of my favorites is the convenience fee that’s levied when ordering concert or other types of entertainment tickets online. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

Customer Service 48

Customer Service Loyalty Programs Loyalty Tips 48

Customer Enthusiast

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Last week, I read perhaps the best article that has come across my screen in 2016 on the topic of customer service: The Secret Lives of Hotel Doormen by Noam Scheiber. Contrast this performance with the subtlety and nuance displayed by Gary Sykes, the hotel doorman profiled in the article.

Hotels 67

Hotels Airlines Retail Customer Service 67

ReviewTrackers

JUNE 27, 2019

Managing online reviews and customer feedback is one of the biggest investment priorities for hospitality brands and organizations in 2016. Wrote Anderson and Han: “Responding to reviews, particularly negative reviews, appears positively related to the consumer’s view of the hotel, as measured by increases in the TripAdvisor score.”.

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Management Hospitality Hotels Net Promoter Score 85

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Hotel giant Hilton recently dropped the H from its rewards program , replacing the linguistically puzzling Hilton HHonors with an easier to pronounce version, Hilton Honors. The new rewards program will be the first in the industry to allow members to combine points and money for a hotel visit. The change is more than cosmetic.

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Rewards Programs Hotels Travel Chief Customer Officer 60

Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

You booked a plane ticket and an overpriced hotel room, and now you are ready to come to the SaaS Disneyland known as Dreamforce ’16 in San Francisco. The post 10 Ways to Escape the Conference Food during Dreamforce 2016 appeared first on Talkdesk. Here is an insider tip: The best food in San Francisco is not right around Dreamforce.

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Conference Tips Hotels Innovation 40

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Ricky Nowak, shares a customer experience she had recently with a hotel that didn’t exactly go well. On a recent business Roadshow, I inadvertently left a brand new PowerPoint clicker in a hotel room but didn’t realize it until I returned home several weeks later.

Hotels 48

Hotels Handbook Conference Policies 48

ReviewTrackers

MARCH 1, 2019

Home to over 730 million reviews and opinions covering the “world’s largest selection of travel listings worldwide,” TripAdvisor is an essential platform for every hotel or hospitality executive. For example, 2019 Certificate of Excellence recipients qualify for the Hall of Fame if they were recognized in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

How To 86

How To Hotels Travel Hospitality 86

Ann Michaels and Associates

DECEMBER 27, 2018

I love reading reviews…whether it’s booking a hotel, trying out a new restaurant, buying a new laptop, or even renting a movie. 94% of customers read online reviews (Fan and Fuel, 2016). • 97% of shoppers say reviews influence buying decisions (Fan and Fuel, 2016). • Customers are reading reviews.

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B2B Hotels Consumers Brands 73

Verint

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Earlier this month, we wrapped up Verint’s global Engage customer events for the year at the amazing Savoy Hotel in London.

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Engagement Customer Engagement Hotels Customers 39

Blake Morgan

MARCH 13, 2023

Progressive Insurance ( Tricia Griffith , President and CEO) Since becoming CEO in 2016, Tricia Griffith has more than quadrupled the company’s stock price. Rosewood Hotel Group (Sonia Cheng, CEO) Over the last decade as CEO, Sonia Cheng has led an incredible transformation to modernize and expand Rosewood Hotel Group.

Customer Centricity 66

Customer Centricity Company Insurance Travel 66

ShepHyken

APRIL 3, 2017

In 2016, the conference organizers added a Customer Service track to the list of 20 or so other tracks. 10 Traits of a Great Hotel Front Desk Agent by Rupesh Patel. Do they have hotel experience? Did they come from another hotel? This year, attendance at several Customer Service sessions reportedly doubled from last year.

Social Media 76

Social Media Customer Service Hotels Hospitality 76

Think Customers

MAY 10, 2016

Brant, Director, Global Guest Experience & Innovation at Dorchester Collection , a luxury hotel operator whose properties include The Beverly Hills Hotel, The Dorchester, and Hotel Bel-Air. Brant while attending the MaritzCX CXFusion 2016 conference in Las Vegas last month.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Hotels Guest Experience Conference 40

ReviewTrackers

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In 2016, TripAdvisor acquired New York-based Citymaps, a social mapping application. Described as a “hotel tell-all,” Oyster had expert hotel investigators visit properties in-person, take “undoctored” photos, and write objective reviews. TripAdvisor – Citymaps Acquisition.

Travel 50

Travel Hotels Wait Times User Experience 50

COPC

AUGUST 10, 2016

will be exhibiting and presenting at the Execs In The Know Customer Response Summit in Austin , at the JW Marriott hotel. will moderate a select group of industry leaders for an engaging and entertaining exploration of key findings from the 2016 Consumer Edition of the Customer Experience Management Benchmark (CXMB) Series.

Customer Journeys 40

Customer Journeys Hotels Conference Entertainment 40

Wired and Dangerous

MARCH 14, 2016

We were working with a client in San Jose, CA and staying at one of our favorite Marriott hotels. When we entered the hotel restaurant for breakfast, the manager on duty remembered us (we had not been there in 6 months) and said, “You guys are here for breakfast with Susan (our favorite server), right? Image credit: wolffsfa.

Hotels 70

Hotels Travel Insurance Loyalty 70

Survicate

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Three researchers at Seoul National University (Daehwan Ahn, Hyanghee Park, and ByungjoonYoo — 2017), found that people rated hotels differently based on the circumstances of their stay. Couples staying at hotels rated them the highest. Consumer Context Matters. And business travelers rated them the lowest. And that’s great!

Travel 98

Travel Apparel Hotels Retail 98

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 9, 2015

Gartner released research that showed by 2016 that 89% of companies will compete mainly on the customer experience they provide. EXAMPLE: Doubletree Hotels and their chocolate chip cookie. It’s a signature extra by the hotel. To demonstrate how the experience has grown in importance, that number was 34% back in 2011.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Hotels NPS 110

ijgolding

APRIL 5, 2016

Thursday 31st March 2016 was the day that saw the first ever European Members Insight Exchange of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). When I stood on the stage at the wonderful Landmark Hotel in London and saw so many passionate; committed; friendly faces – I have never felt so proud (in a professional sense).

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Hotels Customers 120

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

These testers can venture out into “the wild” and execute customer journeys in-store/restaurant (BOPIS, curbside pickup, mobile order ahead, contactless payments), at home (OTT with different SmartTVs), in a hotel (mobile-key, mobile check-in) on a flight (in-flight access entertainment with different device types) and more.

How To 64

How To Customer Journeys Touchpoint Entertainment 64

C Space

MARCH 20, 2019

After landing impact-after-impact for his clients, he became a seasoned and celebrated consultant, eventually being shortlisted for the prestigious MRS Newcomer of the Year Award in 2016. This represents a growth in new electric car sales of 54% compared with 2016. One solution: add hospitality to the mix.

Apparel 45

Apparel Automotive Hotels Hospitality 45

Oracle

DECEMBER 19, 2018

She continues, “VNTANA built software which allows companies to easily bring their chatbots to life so consumers can have their own personal hologram concierge, whether it’s helping them shop or checking them into a hotel.” ” Chatbots as cashiers.

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Chatbots Retail Comparison Hotels 81

ReviewTrackers

APRIL 27, 2017

Customers of Wells Fargo were writing negative reviews about the opening of fake accounts before the news broke about the scandal in September 2016, according to research by ReviewTrackers. The founders of boutique and luxury hotel booking platform Mr. & Mrs. Smith say that word of mouth is the best form of marketing, according to Skift.

Healthcare 50

Healthcare Insurance Hotels Hospitality 50

ijgolding

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

I will never forget sitting in my hotel room in Munich on the morning of my first class. This Friday, I am excited to be judging another crop of talented, committed and passionate Customer Experience Professionals at the 2016 UK Customer Experience Awards. I am not embarrassed to say that I cried. I was petrified.

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Customer Experience Professionals Customer Experience Training Hotels 120

COPC

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Methodology 2016 data: Conducted by Google Consumer Surveys, August 8–12, 2016 and based on 200 online responses. Methodology 2016 data: Conducted by Google Consumer Surveys, August 8–12, 2016 and based on 200 online responses. of leisure travelers. Sample: National Adult Internet Population. See Figure 3. See Figure 4.

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Hospitality Travel Survey Industry 40

Comm100

AUGUST 23, 2018

Their total customer count is over 310 million active customers – a number that was last reported in 2016. Meanwhile, the Wynn’s adoption of Amazon’s voice assistant is helping them deliver quality customer care to hotel guests. Their plan is to add the device to each of their 4,748 hotel rooms. “I billion U.S. Source: GeekWire.

Exceptional Customer Service 100

Exceptional Customer Service Customer Service Chatbots Hotels 100

Eptica

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Date: Friday, November 18, 2016 Customer Experience - disrupt or be disrupted. Published on: November 18, 2016. To be held on 21 st November 2016 in central London, Eptica will be exhibiting, alongside speakers who will include:

Customer Experience 48

Customer Experience Conference Innovation Hotels 48

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2016, the Temkin Group conducted a study to understand NPS scores across 20 different industries, which has become a source of truth when it comes to NPS benchmarks. Delivery services and appliance companies generally all have similar NPS scores, while hotels and retailers usually have a wide range of scores between companies.

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NPS Net Promoter Score How To Comparison 58

COPC

APRIL 14, 2016

Featured Event: April 26, 2016, Phoenix, AZ. IARE 2016 SYMPOSIUM at Hyatt Place Phoenix . Come see us at the world’s largest contact center conference and expo: 17th annual Call Center Week at The Mirage hotel. This global events calendar provides you an overview of where you can find COPC Inc. Judi Brenstein of COPC Inc.

Customer Journeys 40

Customer Journeys Contact Center Conference Call Center 40

CSM Magazine

APRIL 26, 2018

Retail banking was the second highest rated, with 24% giving banks an excellent score in this area, followed by hotels at 23%. Hotels were considered poor by the least number of people: just 10%, while supermarkets were also near the top, considered excellent by 19% and with the second lowest poor score, voted as such by just 13%.

Effort Score 40

Effort Score Banking Fashion Hotels 40

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Over time, tipping became the norm for several industries, from hotel workers, to delivery employees, and your favorite coffee baristas. Co-author Professor Ryan Hamilton and I present a related concept in our latest book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

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Tips Hotels Insurance Culture 126

Customer Bliss

APRIL 7, 2016

Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, wrote an article in early 2016 entitled “Nobody Asked For Uber.” Patrick Pacious left a large consulting company to go work for Choice Hotels as EVP and COO with a strong eye towards customer-driven growth.

Chief Customer Officer 100

Chief Customer Officer Leadership Hotels Connections 100