Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. But even these leading travel brands can do better. Things are improving for the travel industry, but the biggest multipliers of customer satisfaction seem largely to be left behind. To accomplish this, they need to better manage their customer journeys.

Travel 40

Travel Hospitality Customer Journeys Examples 40

Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Nobody with $100 in pesos leftover from a recent trip would travel back to Mexico just to spend them, but they might exchange them back into dollars. Many people who travelled regularly (until overseas card payments became the norm) collected coins and banknotes from dozens of different countries, holding them for decades.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Banking 52

Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Innovation Travel Loyalty Programs 52

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. For airlines and hotel groups, frequent customers are business travelers, so their partner mixes are heavily biased toward fellow travel brands. I’m a case in point.

Loyalty 59

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 59

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

More useful loyalty currencies are appreciated by more people and will bring the hundreds of millions of people who are rarely active in loyalty programs back into the fold – because they can accumulate more useful value across a much wider spectrum of places they shop. Most loyalty programs were designed when it was hard to comparison-shop.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel Rewards Programs 52

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. 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. Merchants across retail, travel, utilities, healthcare, etc.

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

“the biggest 25 food-and-beverage companies…generated 45% of sales in the category in America but drove only 3% of the total growth” [i]. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. The Economist, November 2018. Really think about that for a moment. 2018 saw a 14.2%

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 45