Blake Morgan

JUNE 13, 2023

At JetBlue Travel Products, the contact center is in the middle of everything the company does–literally and figuratively. Andres Barry, President of JetBlue Travel Products, says customers have become more selective about how they book travel and want a company they can trust if something unexpected happens.

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Contact Center Strategy Travel Customer Confidence 59

NICE inContact

MAY 6, 2019

Based in Bloomington, Indiana, Gant Travel specializes in corporate travel services for mid-size businesses. Its 81 agents handle a variety of travel reservations 24/7 — approximately 600 every month. With CXone, Gant Travel quickly transformed a negative customer experience to an extremely smooth, efficient one.

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Travel Contact Center Wait Times Customer Satisfaction 145

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Before we sign off for the holiday break, we want to give shouts to all the frontline agents and coaches holding it down for clients and customers in contact centers everywhere. A reminder that the struggle to sustain morale when it’s holiday season in the contact center is real. at Blue Ocean. We’d love to hear from you.

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Contact Center Gamification Transportation Travel 156

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It’s plain and simple, using plain language in customer interactions is good business for your contact center. This all leads to cost savings in your contact center. The lack of clear communication in the contact center can result in significant costs to a business over time. You’re lowering call volume.

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Contact Center Self Service First Call Resolution Case Study 136

Storyminers

JULY 7, 2020

What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? At most contact centers, there will be several waves of change within the 2017 calendar year. There are still many contact centers that put internal performance numbers ahead of customers’ needs. 2 Serve before you sell.

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BlueOcean

MAY 29, 2019

Picture this: You’re in the RFP process for a new contact center partner. You know exactly what you need in regards to channel support, reporting metrics, technical capabilities, agent training, and more, and the contact center RFP makes sure you’re checking all the boxes. Ease of travel. Don’t go in blind.

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Contact Center Culture Comparison Exercises 185

Playvox

JULY 20, 2022

At the start of the year, most contact center leaders were scrambling to find talent and whenever I spoke with folks in the industry, it seemed like everyone talked about the “war for talent” and “the great resignation.” It included travelers who were concerned about their flights potentially getting canceled.

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BlueOcean

JULY 24, 2017

The same must be said when you’re looking to build a strategic partnership with a new contact center outsourcer. The contact center RFP is essential, of course, but the contact center site visit is invaluable. The Contact Center RFP Process. The Contact Center Site Visit.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 17, 2020

Historically, contact center customization — whether that’s changing the agent interface, building custom dashboards or integrating systems for improved context or process automations — has been a hassle. travel and tourism industry at least $24 billion in foreign spending alone. Globally, travel is predicted to fall 9.1%

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BlueOcean

AUGUST 21, 2019

You’ll task your team with running a tight procurement process to assess potential contact center partners. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the top 10 things to assess on your contact center vendor site visit. The pace of change in the contact center industry is mind-blowing. 2. Technology.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

That’s terrific news for workers, but contact centers planning to staff up for the holiday season must be sweating a little. So, yes, contact centers who need to staff up to meet holiday demands are going to face some additional challenges this year. Is it getting hot in here? It’s worth thinking about.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 20, 2020

Contact centers are being flooded with calls about everything from finance to travel to healthcare, and more. At the same time, so is the health and well-being of your contact center staff. For this reason, contact centers are exactly the kind of environment that could be ordered to shut down.

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Playvox

AUGUST 8, 2022

But the trend also disproportionately impacted contact centers and customer support organizations. If every one of these agents acted on that thought, service centers would be gutted. One of the biggest challenges that contact centers have faced is that employees are demanding more from their employers.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Of course, greater retail sales inevitably lead to higher call volume in the contact center. Here are some key tactics for coping with holiday spikes in the contact center. The holidays can be stressful – and not just because of the retail madness, traveling frenzy, and family feuds. Setting Realistic Expectations.

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Contact Center Gamification Retail Course 136

Talkdesk

MAY 14, 2020

The pandemic represents a challenge for business survival as some industries like travel and hospitality see a concerning decrease in demand, while many organizations struggle to keep up with high call volumes and effectively serve their customers.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Customer experience and contact centers, in particular, are great starting points to implement artificial intelligence (AI) solutions since they are a large source of customer information, generating enormous quantities of data that is impossible to process manually. If a customer says “I am free on Friday at 9:30 a.m.”,

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CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Contact center leaders are struggling to keep pace with ‘unrealistic’ demands. Contact centers are struggling to deliver much-needed CX innovation while battling against rising contact volumes, agent attrition and customer churn, according to a new survey of 1000 contact center leaders in the US, UK and Australia from Censuswide.

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Contact Center Survey Healthcare Insurance 59

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Building for the Future: CX in the Cloud is packed with real world lessons learned from a panel of seasoned contact center experts. What better way to learn about the benefits of moving contact center technology to the cloud than from the companies employing these solutions. TechStyle Fashion Group. Omega World.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Contact centers and almost no industry has been spared, as working habits, job schedules, communication patterns and technologies have all been altered drastically. As a result, the tools, technology, and procedures that contact centers will need to adapt to hybrid work patterns that must be carefully evaluated.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Contact centers and almost no industry has been spared, as working habits, job schedules, communication patterns and technologies have all been altered drastically. As a result, the tools, technology, and procedures that contact centers will need to adapt to hybrid work patterns that must be carefully evaluated.

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Contact Center e-support Culture Meeting 52

GlowTouch

JANUARY 28, 2020

Contact Center Account Manager. We are headquartered in Louisville, KY, with offices in Boston, MA, and Bangalore, India, with another large contact center in Mangalore, India. Travel to client locations and GlowTouch offices as needed (Domestic and International travel). LET’S TALK. Louisville, KY.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 22, 2020

However for some companies, particularly in travel and hospitality, the storm came abruptly with little time for planning and response. Contact centers utilizing on-premises infrastructures do not have adequate flexibility and scalability to allow their workforce to operate remotely and also meet rising customer demands.

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NobelBiz

MAY 6, 2022

This article will explain why employee recognition is based on creating a culture of recognition, and whether you can use reward and incentive strategies for contact centers. Unfortunately, the Contact Center industry is famous for having the highest turnover, and call center agents often lack job satisfaction.

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Talkdesk

MAY 11, 2020

Internet Travel Solutions (ITS) is a leading, global travel management company that focuses on smart, fast and easy solutions, with products and services to solve customer problems and provide long-term value. Discover our offer for travel and hospitality.

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Travel Contact Center Hospitality Innovation 61

Think Customers

JULY 1, 2020

The contact center industry has always needed to look forward. It’s a business so ingrained in the trends and innovations of every industry from healthcare, travel, banking, and more. Distributed contact center workforces The crisis completely turned work on its head. Not anymore. It’s time to be proactive.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 9, 2019

Early in my career, I spent eight years supervising agents in contact centers. Working in and managing contact centers is not for the faint of heart. How do you scale up and down quickly in a modern contact center? Every day is a challenge and seems like you are dealing with fires all day, every day!

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 28, 2022

AI Coach helps contact center leaders develop top-performing customer-facing teams with AI Conversation Simulation. It offers human-centered AI coaching to help agents improve performance through realistic, immersive experiences. Zenarate’s AI Coach is used worldwide every day in over a dozen countries, including the U.S.,

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Contact Center Training Healthcare Travel 52

Think Customers

APRIL 6, 2020

Contact centers and customer service organizations play a critical role in enabling those human connections. They provide essential services that in some cases deliver life-sustaining support of banks, healthcare organizations, telecommunications, travel, and insurance, just to name a few.

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Lumoa

OCTOBER 26, 2022

There are nonetheless also many options for those who are still not ready to travel and meet people, as organizers have become better and better at offering an experience that is comparable to face-to-face interactions. 19th Annual Customer Contact East | April, 23-26 | Fort Lauderdale, US . NACAS South CX | April, 16-19 | Dallas, US.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Since the weather postponed travel, our team added a half day to the conference. The Digital Transformation of the Contact Center Is Still Happening. The modern contact center has radically changed within the last few years with a surge of companies switching to cloud services.

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NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

What are the flaws in your contact center? After all, running a contact center without taking human, technological, and managerial facts into account in every operational element is comparable to driving a car without a dashboard. Is your client satisfaction decreasing? Team Management: how dedicated are your agents?

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NobelBiz

MARCH 8, 2020

in the US alone (as of June 2020), and the FCC’s efforts against robocalls are yielding results , we can observe a worrisome rise in contact center fraud, as well. Here are 6 popular contact center frauds and how to teach your agents to identify and report them. And there are still countries imposing travel bans.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

What if your employees had to work from home and you had to close your contact centers indefinitely? We all know we should expect the unexpected – that’s the nature of business. But what if you had to cease operations in multiple cities and countries at the same time?

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Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

This post makes the same point, but for the travel and hospitality – one of the most traditional “service” industries on the planet. Read on… Customer loyalty is a powerful marketing force that travel and hospitality businesses are always chasing. If you travel with kids often, they might put some toys in the room.

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

oz contact centers are sometimes too efficient for their own good leading to poor customer service and high agent attrition rates. Running a contact center takes me back to my school days and Aesop’s Fable of the ‘Tortoise and the Hare’. It all comes down to the basics so let’s start with how contact centers measure.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As a large travel management company, Omega World Travel continues to break new ground operationally and in the CX it provides to customers, thanks in large part to its move to NICE inContact and the CXone cloud-native platform.

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Travel Contact Center Innovation Analytics 193

Talkdesk

MAY 29, 2019

While the United States remains the most popular destination for summer travel overall, travel to international destinations continues to increase. France and Germany have seen a significant increase in travelers compared to last summer, with a gain of 44% and 32% respectively. Based in Dusseldorf, Germany, trivago N.V.

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