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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. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. The golden benchmark is about $25 USD per year in loyalty value. This actually is not true.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of March 25, 2024

ShepHyken

According to an article in Craving Tech, organizations that have integrated this new technology into their operations saw a 25% boost in customer satisfaction in 2023. Companies—from JetBlue to Dunkin’ to Walmart—will push loyalty programs to attract both new and returning customers.

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Hospitality loyalty: 3 predictions that will change the industry

Currency Alliance

It’s time for hotel operators to re-evaluate how well their ace in the hole – their loyalty program – is enabling every function of their business to deliver more value. Here are three predictions of how loyalty programs must evolve in hospitality. Yet like many hotels, most hotel loyalty programs are homogenous.

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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. Turning loyalty members into evangelists.

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Beyond the Hotel: Earning Guest Loyalty with Hospitality Tech

Currency Alliance

Countless articles have been written about enhancing the hotel customer experience (CX) with technology. By owning this more complete customer journey, the hotel has the opportunity to deliver better experiences and to earn greater guest loyalty. Restive guests: understanding hospitality loyalty. the luxury traveler.

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Three Travel and Hospitality Customer Journey Tracking Examples

Kitewheel

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. This despite the fact that 76% of customers tell us that they would be likely or extremely likely to sign up for a brand’s loyalty program if the brand tailored information and experiences based on past behavior. There is huge market pressure to make great deals.

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How to Build the Employee Experience and Culture of Continuous Improvement with VP of CX & Loyalty at Hertz

Customer Bliss

Within his role, Eric now owns the VoC programs, CX and brand activation team, and the Gold Plus Rewards loyalty program. In the first 6 months of his role, Eric focused on the following: Fixing the measurement program in order to capture the VoC in the right way with the right level of understanding.