Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Enormous budget airline brands and luxury hotel chains alike are seeing increased competition. Top-rated airlines like JetBlue have managed to combine reasonable prices with quality service and experience. Power reported higher consumer satisfaction than ever – largely due to increased seat sizes and cheaper fares.

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Travel Hospitality Customer Journeys Examples 40

Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

Read on… Customer loyalty is a powerful marketing force that travel and hospitality businesses are always chasing. For airlines, hotels, resorts and other companies in the travel and hospitality industry, this presents new challenges in terms of managing their reputation. Turning loyalty members into evangelists.

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Hospitality Travel Industry Brands 74

Qualtrics

APRIL 22, 2020

Life as we knew it before COVID-19 will take time to return, and even when it does we’re likely to be in a ‘new normal’, as the crisis impacts consumer behaviors going forward. Food and beverage companies, cruise lines, airlines, and hotels are facing some unique challenges as people are forced to stay home.

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Hospitality Retail Rewards Programs Analysis 29

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Greater investment to meet consumers’ insatiable appetite for experiences.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 14, 2010

Their rewards program provides 2 points for every dollar spent at Nordstrom’s and provides for 1 point when I use the card elsewhere. I can also convert points to miles on many different airlines, and use the points and redeem them at various hotels and Hertz car rentals.

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Rewards Programs Hotels Travel Airlines 41

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers).

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A spike in recent news around loyalty coalitions – both good and bad – signals the dawn of a new, vastly more profitable iteration of the coalition model. Even though Plenti failed[i], Amex’s effort showed belief in the coalition model by one of the biggest names in reward programs. In summary: V1.0 In summary: V1.0

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Loyalty Consumers Brands Airlines 36

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Gamification and personalization have come on leaps and bounds in loyalty to supplement points and rewards. 1. Looking beyond transactional rewards. One brand even overcame the persistent limitations of blockchain to run a successful trial.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Gamification Airlines 49

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The overarching loyalty trend of 2020 will continue to be brands getting to grips with digital transformation. If that sounds like loyalty is late to the party, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2020, however, seems likely to be the year in which stars align for a more profitable, productive and open future for loyalty.

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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating?

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs How To Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

His chosen airline made him so mad that he wrote a song about them, which has since been viewed over 18m times on YouTube ( [link] ). The anecdotes revealed some interesting themes, and they should make for useful learnings for airline and hotel brands. The airline put us up in a hotel, as you’d expect, but managed it horrifically.

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Travel Course Customer Experience Airlines 40

Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Loyalty Rules Engine. Now, these legacy systems are showing the strain.

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Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs CRM 58

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52