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Guest experience: Trends, tips & Best practices for 2021

Qualtrics

The guest experience could be the difference between whether a guest returns or not. Explore the ways that organizations can use guest experience as a key factor of their success. What is guest experience? The guest experience is the cumulative effect of every interaction your guests have with you.

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Optimizing the Guest Journey to Increase Customer Engagement

ENGAGE.cx

But being big shouldn’t be a barrier to creating loyalty through customer service. For example, when a guest walks into a hotel, a beacon can latch onto the customer’s smartphone, alerting the front desk that she has arrived to check in or on-location Wi-Fi in the lobby can alert your staff of a lingering guest who needs attention.

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Five Ways Hotels Can Build a Successful Digital Strategy for Improving Guest Experience

Avaya

For example, they can uniquely differentiate themselves by embedding video into the mobile customer experience. By doing so, guests can escalate any mobile interaction to a video chat session with the touch of a finger—anytime, anywhere via an integrated mobile app (more on this below).

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 8-1-2022

ShepHyken

(SmartBrief) Frontline service employees are often a consumer’s first human interaction with a company. After all, customers make buying decisions based on their experiences, so no matter what originally attracted them, their customer service interactions can dictate loyalty or loss.

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Engage Every Guest like a VIP

ENGAGE.cx

This version of great customer experience within the guest journey can be achieved today – and with the right customer engagement solution, it can be achieved without spending a ton of money. Engagement Score Defines VIPs. So, the higher the score, the more engaged the customer.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Customer Comment Cards

Opinionator

They are presented at the business location (perhaps even with the POS invoice or guest check) – so not an online customer interaction. Customer input is at the location, using a pen and paper to fill in the card, which is then placed in a box, mailed or just handed to staff. But how can you know for sure?

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HITEC 2017 is Happening Now: What You Need to Know

Avaya

Technology is no longer part of the guest experience; it is the guest experience. Today, 40% of guests now regularly use hotel mobile apps. Overall, two-thirds say they have a better hotel experience when brands leverage the latest technologies. And 67% would sign up for location-based coupons and alerts.