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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

Currency Alliance

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value.

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

Up Your Service

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. Turning loyalty members into evangelists.

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Three Travel and Hospitality Customer Journey Tracking Examples

Kitewheel

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. Contextual relevance drives customer engagement. Personalize Based On Past Behavior to Drive Loyalty. Too often, when interacting with travel brands and hotels, they don’t seem to know who you are unless you’re a member of their rewards program.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

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. There’s a lot of useful takeaways in this, for loyalty marketers.

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11 TED Talks to Inspire Better Customer Support

Kayako

Instead of implementing a “loyaltyprogram that has nothing to do with loyalty (and everything to do with discounts), Van Belleghem says think instead about how you would treat your best friend if he or she became a client. In his talk, Customer loyalty programmes…why bother! Meaningful micro-engagements.

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

Currency Alliance

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. in 2017[ii].

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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. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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