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

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

“Extra” was a 4% interest rate which earned the average working family £100-200 a year – the kind of value you can earn from a supermarket loyalty card. Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework.

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

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. I like these changes.

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Rewards Programs Hotels Travel Chief Customer Officer 60

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The Wise Marketer) Companies are realizing the importance of focusing on their repeat customers and designing special loyalty rewards program exclusively for this category of customers. Here are a few ideas on how to retain those happy customers. Customer Retention Made Easy by Samir Palnitkar. They tell others.

Customer Service 80

Customer Service Airlines Employee Engagement Rewards Programs 80

Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

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. Inspiring Real Loyalty, No Cards in Sight. Time and time again they top the list of airlines to which customers feel loyal.

Tourism 56

Tourism Travel Customer Service e-support 56

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

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

Grade.us

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Did you catch Andrew McDermott's post, How to Create a Review Request Incentive Program ? And you'll know creating an incentive program is one way to meet the challenge. Do not under any circumstances penalize the employee in any way for using the reward. The Gift of Time. This one's slightly different. Got other ideas?

Tips 25

Tips Rewards Programs Fashion Airlines 25

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. 1. Looking beyond transactional rewards.

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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

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.

Travel 40

Travel Course Customer Experience Airlines 40

Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

How you can identify customer pain points more quickly this spring is by bringing journey analytics in house. Filling these gaps will have quick value and drive customer loyalty. For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers.

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ROI Hotels Customer Journeys Retail 76

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. In some ways, it’s surprising how little the supermarket industry has moved on. We estimate only about a third of grocery chains worldwide operate a points-based rewards program. Loyalty programs are essentially a value exchange.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52