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Hoteliers know that reputation is everything. A strong reputation from positive reviews brings hotels guest loyalty and an increase in revenue. Adversely, even one negative review can bring a hotel increased costs to repair their reputation. How much does a negative review cost? It isn’t just a simple loss of a booking or a comped room; it can cost you much more.
Kipsu’s guest messaging offers many features that could easily increase your ROI. Whether it is food and beverage requests or team dashboards, these five guest messaging features are sure to make a Marriott stay unforgettable.
One of the biggest challenges hotels face is employee retention. Not only does a heavy turnover negatively impact your service, team efficiency, and satisfaction scores, it negatively affects your revenue, too. This is why employee satisfaction is an imperative part of your bottom line. Hotels have been optimizing their tech resources as small yet effective tools to curb turnover.
November 29, 2017
Learn how hotels are using Kipsu to anticipate guest's future needs and determine overarching trends throughout their property.
November 27, 2017
The Raleigh Marriott City Center is setting the bar high when it comes to guest service. Learn how they use text messaging to personalize each guest's stay and increase satisfaction.
October 30, 2017
As one of the first hotels in the UK to use Kipsu, the Edinburgh Grosvenor takes great customer service to the next level through combining digital interactions with their already exceptional practices.
October 23, 2017
For the past few years, there has been a rising trend in the use of texting between companies and their customers. Texting has become a crucial form of communication and is now a way for companies to distinguish themselves among the less tech-savvy competition. Here are some statistics that explain why texting could be the single most important tool contributing to the success of your company.
A good hotel’s ultimate purpose is to be hospitable and accommodating to its guests’ needs—this includes the needs of its hearing-impaired and deaf guests. According to the NCRA (National Court Reporters Association), over 28 million Americans are considered deaf or hearing disabled. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, hotels and motels are required to provide effective communication methods to ensure their deaf guests are being properly accommodated. The ADA covers everything from the number of rooms that needed to be accessible to guests who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to requirements for fire alarms and other safety equipment to TV captioning. Here are a few things to double check that you have available to hearing-impaired guests:
September 13, 2017
Nina Brown shares her team's approach to elevating guest service using communication.
September 8, 2017
From the dawn of time, mankind has speculated what the future will bring. For some time now, no vision of the future has been sans robots. We’ve all imagined a time in the future when cute anthropomorphic robots like R2D2 and BB8 would be a regular part of life or each family would have their own C3PO tending to the chores and piping up with useless bits of information. As great as this sounds, the current reality of AI and bot-driven activities is far less idyllic and often times full of funny (or even not-so-funny) mishaps. Check out the ten best bot blunders below to see why human-to-human service is still best.
August 21, 2017
The Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, located on the beautiful campus of Michigan State University, not only provides a top-notch service to guests, but also serves as a training laboratory for Hotel Management students (many of whom are students at MSU school of Hospitality Business). The Kellogg Hotel’s rooms are filled with a wide array of guests from MSU parents to visiting lecturers, and business travels from Fortune 500 companies, while the Conferences Center hosts over 400,000 visitors each year for various events including weddings, seminars, meetings and conferences. Although this large variety of guests and a mostly student-driven staff poses its challenges, through actively listening to each request and question through text and digital messaging, the Kellogg Hotel and & Conference Center delivers an outstanding experience for their guests.
The bleisure phenomenon that combines business and leisure travel is taking over the hospitality industry. Learn how hotels can keep up and use tools like digital messaging to make guest experiences better than ever.
May 19, 2022
Digital Assets allows you to create a library of helpful information to easily share with guests within Kipsu. This feature can save your team time and effort while providing valuable advice and particulars to guests, conveniently at their fingertips.
May 18, 2022
Texting for hotels has proven an improved guest experience, but it’s not the only channel available. Top hospitality messaging services like Kipsu provide a way to communicate with guests on all of their preferred channels, from social media to WhatsApp.
May 16, 2022
For years, the Crowne Plaza Suites Pittsburgh South has been using hospitality messaging to fulfill guest requests, consolidate information, and even book reservations directly through texting for hotels—overall boosting satisfaction scores at the property.
May 11, 2022
As hotel technology becomes more ingrained at properties large and small, features like mobile key are taking the industry by storm. Combining mobile key with digital messaging platforms can elevate the guest experience and help with any troubleshooting that may arise during contactless check-in.
May 10, 2022
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