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Great hotel experience? Think More Proximity Marketing and Less Bubbly Soaps 

Optimove

We love our hotel apps. In 2022, travelers expect their hotel of choice to treat them as valuable customers and not just as a number in a vast sea of other numbers. Just a 5-minute wait at check-in can reduce guest satisfaction by 50% (Hospitality.net) but worry not, we have some ideas to help reduce wait times by up to 20%.

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A Valuable Commodity: Spend Less, Save More, and Win Customers Over

NICE inContact

Recently I was forced to stay in a hotel because my flight was canceled due to bad weather. When I showed up at the hotel, I couldn’t believe how long the line was to check in. I’d bet that you have at one time or another called a company for support and heard the recording that goes something like this: “We’re sorry.

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Excuses versus solutions

Zeisler Consulting

Due to current circumstances, we’re experiencing longer-than-usual wait times.” There’s even a brand that I call rarely …maybe once or twice a year…and they’ve been using the longer-than-usual wait times idiom as long as I can remember. You’ve heard this before, right? “Due Those “circumstances” can vary.

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Zero Cost! How to Use Behavioral Science to Improve Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

For example, I once heard a story about cleaning staff at a hotel trained to stand in the shower when cleaning a room. Manage customer wait times. We did a podcast on this topic, too, which gets into the effect of customer wait times on their perception of experience. knowyourcustomers.)

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Principle Two: Create Their Experience

Bill Quiseng

Minimize wait times. For hotels, offer bottled water at arrival or departure. Even more, they don’t care about your experience. All they care about is their experience. Review all the customer touchpoints and take any negative issues and make them neutral. Clean dirty restrooms. Create “no hassle” return or exchange policies.

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3 Best Practices for Travel and Hospitality brands to thrive in the new normal

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Hotels, airlines, and tourist destinations are currently preparing for this resurgence– without actually knowing the volume that it will bring. . Or should hotels and airlines continue to be cautious? However, it’s impossible to know what these brands should expect. Will this summer mark a full return to normal operations?

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3 Ways Conversational AI can help your Customers in an Urgent Travel Situation

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As the weather heats up this time of year, vacation is the top thing on my mind and I start to book my summer travels. Book a hotel? And if I am put on hold or have to deal with a complication, it’s frustrating, but I can find the time to finish the task later in the day or on a different channel. Long wait times.

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