Low-Cost Experiences Hotels Can Offer on a Budget
Though luxurious amenities such as spa treatments, personalized soaps (locally made, of course), and even aromatherapy butlers help create a great guest experience, they can also cost significantly more to provide. If you’re operating an economy hotel with a thinner profit margin, expensive additions like these may be out of your reach. Luckily, most guests […]
How to Create a Digital Guide for Your Hotel Guests
One way to appeal to modern travelers and give your property an edge over the competition is to offer a digital guide for your hotel guests. Digital guides can be created within guest apps provided by guest engagement platforms like Operto, Duve, and Akia, curated to present house manuals, amenities, local recommendations, and more to […]
4 Big Reasons Hotel Guests Never Come Back
If you google “hotel horror stories,” three things will occur to you. One, that bed bugs, or any other type of bug, truly are the worst. Two, if the hotel is haunted, you should probably just abandon it before The Shining happens. And three, that those guests are never coming back. While your hotel (hopefully) […]
It Only Takes One Bad Experience: Don’t Send Your Guests Packing!
As consumers, customer service is important to most of us across the board, from retail to utilities. How many bad experiences are we prepared to put up with before switching brands? Our tolerance of bad service tends to depend on the availability or quality of the actual product. In the case of hotels, where customer […]
Let’s Get Personal: Guest Personalization for Guest Retention
Everything is personalized these days: from your iPhone case to your Facebook settings, to Google algorithms ranking results to suit your location and previous searches. Even ordering a coffee at Starbucks has become an art in individualization. It comes as no surprise, then, that guests expect this kind of personalization in their hotel stays. And […]
Hotel Guest Satisfaction is higher than Ever – How Satisfied are Your Guests?
According to research firm J.D. Power’s 2014 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study℠, hotel guest satisfaction is at a record high. In fact, with overall satisfaction averaging 784 points (out of 1,000) in 2014, guest satisfaction is up 27 points from 2012. The study, now in its 18th year, measures satisfaction with the entire […]