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

Up Your Service

Our previous blog post demonstrated the power of customer voice in an unsolicited book review from a technology industry guru. This post makes the same point, but for the travel and hospitality – one of the most traditional “service” industries on the planet. The rise of white-glove customer service.

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How To Initiate a Direct-To-Consumer Selling Strategy

Second to None

By cutting out the wholesaler middle-man, brands are setting themselves up to better understand what their customers are looking for within the sales interaction, therefore helping to establish better and longer customer relationships. Another industry that is utilizing direct communication with customers is hospitality.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

In any case, I think the vast majority of practitioners will be as excited as I am, to think what this wave of innovation means for consumers: more brands finding cleverer, more meaningful ways to create compelling customer value. Technically speaking, the rewarded parties were not employees, but resellers of IBM’s technology.

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11 TED Talks to Inspire Better Customer Support

Kayako

Get inspired to create a customer-centric business and improve your customer interactions by watching these popular motivational customer service videos on YouTube. I have selected these videos because each one has influenced our customer relationships and deepened our understanding of how to provide better customer support.

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Crash Course: 11 Terrible Customer Experiences In Travel

Currency Alliance

Anyway – given that Currency Alliance positions itself as a flag-bearer for great CX, I asked around the office for everyone’s worst ever experiences in the travel & hospitality sector. I’m a member of loyalty programs with two different airline alliances: One World, and SkyTeam. Customers aren’t stupid. Travel-Sick.

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