Across the globe, there’s been accelerated adoption of technology across industries – transport, logistics, retail, manufacturing and food. However, travel and hospitality industry has historically depended on people to deliver customer experience. Even in the digital travel business, we expect that to change in the future.
http://www.bgr.in/features/technology-innovation-could-transform-customer-experience-in-the-travel-and-hospitality-industry/
Today’s marketers are placing the ‘customer’ at the front and center of all its processes as key to sustaining and growing the brand and business.
Brands can now track individual customer behavior in real-time. With the availability of big data and analytics, companies are able to tailor-fit customer experiences on personal scale.
http://business.inquirer.net/244950/digital-amplifies-customer-experience/
Retailers and brands convened in New York City last week to experience the National Retail Federation’s Big Show, and once of the biggest topics on attendees’ minds was technology. From automation to personalization to social marketing, the growing importance of technology in the shopping experience was definitely top-of-mind for retailers and brands, including those in the food and beverage space.
Here’s a look at how four food and beverage brands are incorporating digital tools to improve the customer experience:
https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2018/01/how-food-beverage-brands-are-going-digital-improve-customer-experience/
The hospitality industry has always been built on delivering a superior customer experience, and this has, for the most part, been centered around highly trained front desk staff, bespoke concierge services, and all the little "extras" that the best hotels are known for. Success in the hospitality industry today though, requires more than a friendly concierge who knows where to get the best tickets for the latest Broadway show. Customer experience in the hotel industry requires attention to the digital channel as well, especially as guests become more accustomed to and expect the option of digital, rather than face-to-face interaction.
https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4086474.html/
Customer experience (CX) is taking centre-stage in an era where superior products and services alone are no longer sufficient to attract and retain customers. Here's why...
http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/QJF1SS1NwcvxGBOTDB3L5K/Why-customer-experience-should-be-a-broad-agenda.html/
Today, digital technologies are moving into the heart of everything we do, changing the way people work, live and innovate. Naturally, consumer interactions and experiences are expected to be controlled by intonation, facial expression and body language.
Exploring the future from an early adopter user Perspective, Ericsson ConsumerLab presents the seventh edition of its annual trend report, The 10 Hot Consumer Trends for 2018 and beyond.
The report points to a paradigm shift as consumers expect digital technology to increasingly operate on human terms. Body language, facial expression and intonation will augment voice and touch to control consumer interaction with tech devices, easing adaption in an ever-increasing pace of technological change.
http://www.cxotoday.com/story/how-digital-tech-is-changing-customer-experience/
Leading brands know that running a successful business is more than selling and making a profit; long-term success is defined by a brand’s ability to form a lasting connection with its customers. In addition, customers are increasingly looking to humanize the brands they do business with.
While blogs, newsletters, and traditional social media have been reliable tools for connecting with customers in the past, the prevalence and popularity of these tactics mean that brand leaders need to think one step ahead if they want to continue creating unique and personal customer experiences.
Looking for some inspiration for creating meaningful connections online? Here are 5 innovative ways to connect with customers digitally...
http://customerthink.com/5-innovative-ways-to-connect-with-customers-digitally/
The Digital Customer Experience Benchmark 2016 reveals that most major European companies still remain in the beginning stages of monitoring customer experience through digital channels such as websites and mobile apps. Nearly half of these respondents feel that they are doing reasonably well in terms of monitoring customer feedback. Nonetheless, in terms of customer follow-ups and task allocation, there is still quite a bit of room for improvement.
https://mopinion.com/digital-customer-experience-benchmark-2016/
Being mobile centric, offering alternative payment options such as the ability to pay later and enabling one-click repeat purchase are all key to winning over online Christmas shoppers.
So says new research by payments provider Klarna, which harvests the views of more than 2,000 consumers to reveal that shoppers are so stressed out in the extended run up to Christmas that they’re overwhelmed when the day itself arrives.
http://internetretailing.net/2017/12/retailers-must-invest-mobile-payments-ease-pain-christmas-customer-experience/
Customer expectations are rising much faster than organizations’ capacity to meet those expectations.
The customer has awoken. For decades they have been comatose, anaesthetised by clever advertising and marketing aimed at pulling their emotional strings and directing them to buy substandard products and services at inflated prices.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/customer-experience-continues-to-get-worse/
