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How to create loyal customers and brand evangelists in the travel and hospitality industry

Up Your Service

Turning loyalty members into evangelists. In its 2017 travel and hospitality outlook, Deloitte predicts that customer experience will make a much bigger impact than loyalty programs on customer retention. Organizations can have great rewards programs, but it’s not sustainable long-term if the service is poor.”.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. How can we call that success?

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

Currency Alliance

Nobody in loyalty could have missed The Times’ headline in October, about the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) proposal to start taxing frequent flyer programs (FFPs), or even to shut them down, under the assumption that they increase flying. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty.

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