CSM Magazine

MARCH 14, 2025

As consumer habits shift and expectations grow, brands face increasing pressure to create loyalty programs that feel personal, relevant, and rewarding. Here, we will explore the latest strategies shaping loyalty programs in 2025 and what they mean for your brand. This affects everyone.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 17, 2024

With today’s travelers raising their expectations while being exposed to a seemingly unlimited number of hospitality solutions, it is critical that operators deliver experiences that reflect the lives of their customers. These include online travel agencies (OTAs), social media, mobile apps, and brand websites.

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Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

This post makes the same point, but for the travel and hospitality – one of the most traditional “service” industries on the planet. Read on… Customer loyalty is a powerful marketing force that travel and hospitality businesses are always chasing. Turning loyalty members into evangelists.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In this new content series, we show what a world-beating loyalty program would look like in four different sectors, and discuss the brands currently showing the potential to build that ‘world-beating’ program. First up: the travel & hospitality sector. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

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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Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Travel and tourism can be difficult areas for retaining customer loyalty, with websites set up exclusively to pit brands against one another on the best deals for hotels and rock-bottom prices on flights. Inspiring Real Loyalty, No Cards in Sight. engender loyalty! engender loyalty!

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

There is hardly any online or land-based casino that doesn’t offer some kind of a loyalty program, like the iRush Rewards program or any other like this. But do those programs really work, and how? These programs not only aim to keep the dice rolling but also to decode the preferences of the diverse casino audience.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2020

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. add complementary partners in every spending category so the program and the currency are more useful and interesting. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 20, 2020

My Comment: “Customer Effort” is a great way to measure the convenience of when a customer needs to connect with a company for help or to have a problem solved. How to Run a Customer Loyalty Program by ThriveHive. Loyalty Trends in 2020: How Will This Year Be Different? by Wise Marketer Staff.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. Why hasn’t loyalty? Winning loyalty programs in 2025. Customer singular.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A recent article on PhocusWire helpfully outlined a range of security vulnerabilities common to loyalty programs. Most loyalty program operators now recognize the urgency of improving their platform security, but are still unsure how to proceed.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 11, 2024

My Comment: A few weeks ago, a software upgrade from CrowdStrike didn’t go well and impacted the customer experience in many industries, especially the travel industry. In short, the computer systems from United, American, Delta, and other major airlines went down, stranding and/or delaying travelers for days. But there’s more.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2017

But getting real value from loyalty programs has become harder and harder. In part this is because the biggest travel loyalty programs are getting watered down and due to the tremendous proliferation of other incompatible loyalty programs. The typical consumer is now a member of lots of programs.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

But getting real value from loyalty programs has become harder and harder. In part this is because the biggest travel loyalty programs are getting watered down and due to the tremendous proliferation of other incompatible loyalty programs. The typical consumer is now a member of lots of programs.

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SurveyGizmo

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Loyalty is personal and emotional, while retention is a financial measure, is what Ryan Tamminga, VP of Customer Success at Alchemer, and Vanessa Bagnato, Director of Enterprise Solutions at Alchemer, explained recently in a webinar. If loyalty and retention are not the same, how they are inextricably connected?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 13, 2015

We put the many prospects in the top, they travel willingly and orderly through the funnel, and POP! But customer experience travels on, past the prospecting and sales phase and well into the relationship with the customer. Customer journeys are often represented in the same way. The sales funnel is so simple, in theory.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 7, 2015

We flew from Chicago’s O’Hare airport at the end of March with a connecting flight in Dallas and made it Puerto Vallerta without a problem. Since everything on our end was the same, including flight numbers, we assumed the airline had determined this was a comfortable amount of time to make the connection.

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Airlines Customer Experience Travel Hotels 110

One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Decisions about the structure of the customer loyalty program, and its perceived relevance and value to each customer. Also, decisions about systems, software, quality, and the loyalty Apps each customer uses when doing business with that organization. Each with their own, branded customer loyalty program.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Power-winning guest loyalty program. He initiated and is leading the strategic transformation of HHonors from a program for only frequent travelers to a club more relevant to all travelers. Mark serves as the senior exec responsible for HHonors, Hilton’s 52+ million member strong, J.D.

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DCX

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Sometimes, the biggest breakthroughs come not from adding more but from questioning the basics—how we measure success, connect with customers, and design experiences. Whether you’re designing a loyalty program or trying to jazz up your digital experience, take a page from Whoop’s playbook. Listen more.

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Gravy Analytics

MAY 14, 2019

Here are a few ideas of how Coach can use location intelligence to better connect with their target consumers and measure the results of their latest campaign. Coach might even create a custom audience of visitors observed at its own store locations to keep their current buyers connected. Precision Audience Targeting.

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Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

But with so much riding on travel for your customer – the cost of bookings, the early-morning starts, the importance or the fun of their trip – it’s a sector primed like no other to stoke their rage when things go wrong. Travel-Sick. “I Weary traveller. “I Getting a passenger from A to B. It seems so simple.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Travel 64

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program.

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Happy or Not

JANUARY 3, 2022

Customers are returning to on-site experiences and spending more on goods such as home equipment due to the decrease in travel. . R etailers or service providers also need to be able to connect that feedback with other internal data they might have to gain a 360 view of their operations and customers. . are just a few.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Your customers travel through such touchpoints that result in them buying. They then travel along more touchpoints as they’re nurtured for repeat purchases and, later on, brand loyalty. That and other industry directors provide you with an excellent opportunity to connect with a new audience. Customer loyalty programs.

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Kitewheel

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

There are two core ways that theme parks have gotten smarter about queue management that the travel industry can learn from. This tip is one that some travel brands have already implemented. Include one or two skip-the-queue passes when new customers sign up for your loyalty program and download your app.

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Airlines Industry Loyalty Programs Travel 52

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

We discovered 6 years ago that during the customer’s trip, the most value we could provide after selling the airline ticket was to show alternative mobility options in the traveler’s destination. Building such habits is precisely what loyalty programs do. . The massive potential of loyalty marketing in mobility.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. As the saying goes, ‘garbage in, garbage out’.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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Blake Morgan

JUNE 7, 2023

Traveling can be stressful, but it doesn’t have to be if airlines prioritize customer experience. All employees are trained to “ Connect first, then decide how to act.” The focus on human connection showcases empathy and helps customers feel like people, not seat numbers.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

And frequent travelers will be able to put their elite membership status on hold rather than lose it when they take a break from travel. Frequent travelers told us they want more flexibility while less frequent travelers want to be able to use their Points in more ways and more quickly.”. Start by engaging the employees.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 24, 2020

Currency Alliance is offering fee-free exchanges of loyalty currencies, between travel and non-travel brands, for the next six months. Travel brands are suffering from Covid-19 more than most, with the grounding of aircraft, and very low occupancy for those hotels which have not yet closed. Implementation details.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. The article covers the various brands which have joined the Scene+ loyalty coalition.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For example, if a drink was wrong, saying, “I understand how disappointing that must be” helps repair the connection. Crafting recovery efforts around individual customer needs can transform a negative experience into a loyalty-building moment. Thank : Show appreciation for their patience and feedback.

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SurveySensum

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In contrast, Company B chose to focus on retaining its existing customer base by introducing loyalty programs. Offer Loyalty Programs for Customer Delight Loyalty programs are like a warm welcome-back hug for your customers. ” The loyalty programs reward your customers for their repeat business.

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