The Petrova Experience

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our 5th 2021 customer experience trend highlights contactless and self-service experiences across industries. Before we dive into this topic, let’s take a moment to define what contactless and self-service mean to us. What is Self Service? To begin, let’s define self-service.

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Interactions

MAY 20, 2021

With travel restrictions decreasing and consumers feeling more comfortable leaving their homes, this summer will see a rebound in traffic after a year-long hibernation. According to new research by Zapwater Communications , 65% of Americans are looking forward to traveling again, both internationally and domestically.

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Aspect

JUNE 29, 2017

air travel hit a record high in 2016, a recent report from ABC News found that airlines are anticipating an additional 9 million travelers between June 1 st and August 31 st this year. Here are some of the key considerations to watch as airlines try to accommodate a record number of travelers this summer.

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Fonolo

JUNE 26, 2019

While many factors are at play here, the growth of the mobile app market has been partly driven by the fact that more and more businesses are integrating mobile apps into their customer service strategies. When it comes to travelling, people are increasingly reliant on their smartphones. Optimize Your Self-Service Channels.

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Interactions

MAY 22, 2019

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. With improved self-service, I find it easy to navigate through websites and channel options to get exactly what I want. In my experience, the major problems with booking travel happen at the worst possible time.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 31, 2020

I’ve received a number of messages from airlines, hotel chains and travel site CEO’s about all the measures they are taking, the policies they are changing, etc. But there are other, not-travel related customer experience shambles too! The response he received after complaining was even more disappointing.

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Mindtouch

OCTOBER 23, 2017

As such, there’s been a perfect storm of market forces driving growth in self-service support. Five primary trends are turning customer self-service into a multi-billion dollar market opportunity. The most striking evidence of the self-service trend is consumer preferences. Human Preference.

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Interactions

MAY 22, 2019

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. With improved self-service, I find it easy to navigate through websites and channel options to get exactly what I want. In my experience, the major problems with booking travel happen at the worst possible time.

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Eckoh

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Has your company deployed a self-service app for customers — but your contact center is still getting a constant stream of calls? Our blog series on the Top 5 Customer Service Challenges has been getting under the skin of the big issues facing contact centers today. When this happens, there's only one thing to do.

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Solvvy

OCTOBER 29, 2019

They don’t call travel agents when they want to plan a trip—instead, they’ll spend hours checking Google Flights for the best fares, scouring through TripAdvisor or Airbnb listings to find the lodging option with just the right infinity pool, and make a must-visit restaurant list with help from Yelp.

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Mindtouch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This is due, in part, to the growing number online customer self-service experiences powered by one or both of these technologies. To help clear the air, here’s a closer look at chatbots and AI and their close ties to customer self-service. AI, chatbots, and self-service. A brief introduction to AI.

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Inbenta

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today’s travelers no longer go to their local travel agent in order to book their trips, they are more and more connected and digitally savvy, doing all their research online. “64% of travelers and 80% of business users expect travel companies to respond to them in real time.” ” (Salesforce).

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Vistio

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Remember the days of travel before GPS? We’ve seen many contact centers add new technology to either create a better self-service customer experience or reduce costs by limiting human involvement until absolutely necessary. You would buy whatever maps that covered all the places you might want to go.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Encourage self-service guided advice – at EBI.AI All this information, along with the customer’s contact details, are visible to the property agent who then has valuable insight into the customer’s situation and buying preferences. For more information, please visit www.ebi.ai.

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Eptica

APRIL 18, 2018

Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 How good is the digital customer experience from travel brands? So, how are UK travel companies doing in terms of online customer experience? Email performance was particularly poor with only two successful answers received by travel brands - and one those took over 7 days.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It can also eliminate frustration and stress when traveling. When he works for a company, he makes it clear that he owns every interaction a customer has with a company, self-service or human, in every channel and every life cycle stage. Then, he works with the team to solve the whole experience while leveraging the power of AI.

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Interactions

JUNE 2, 2022

Summer 2022 is upon us and, as the Washington Post covers, all indications suggest travel will be back to the pre-pandemic era. But the war in Ukraine, high inflation, and lofty gas prices have added uncertainty in the travel world and increased the likelihood for out-of-practice travelers to make errors.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

AR is being used to boost field service efficiency by enabling remote technicians to guide their customers through many issue resolution processes, and by providing remote expert support to on-site technicians. It can also alleviate pressure on field forces by enabling customers to resolve issues in self-service.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The topics covered include quick response times, providing self-service options, different ways customers can communicate with you (phone, email, chat, text, etc.), Hospitality Net) The best demonstration of brand loyalty in hospitality and travel, in general, is the share of repeat business. by Max Starkov.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 12, 2021

With air travel, in-person meetings and conferences curtailed right now, it is the only way businesses can sail through the pandemic revival stage. All communication must, instead, take place digitally––even self-service. Consumer interactions have changed as well. Actionable Steps for Reset.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The jump from traditional “press zero” to cutting-edge AI solutions presents both a thrilling opportunity and a daunting challenge in the customer service world. Recent headlines, like the issues faced by Air Canada with its website chatbots, spotlight a critical junction in this journey: the choice of a self-service provider.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 24, 2020

If you have a reservation that is more than 72 hours away, please consider contacting us later so we can help those who are traveling or hosting soon. Companies : Many organizations are facing the double whammy of increased customer service volumes and potentially fewer staff. Now is the time to double down on self-service.

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Uniphore

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Travel and hospitality were among the hardest hit industries during the pandemic. Fewer business travelers, newer no-contact preferences and higher overall expectations are a few of the factors shaping the customer experience landscape.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 20, 2022

VanAmburg says that our society was changing to a self-service economy, with things like self-service checkout lanes at supermarkets and ordering plane tickets yourself instead of through a travel agency. For example, 1997 VanAmburg says was the all-time low of the ACSI’s history.

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Inbenta

JULY 29, 2021

Travelling has been getting harder and harder since Covid came around. . Second, there are tons of cancellations due to surges in Covid cases, new safety laws, and other scenarios, all of it pushing travelers to cancel, reschedule or postpone their flights. These situations call for superior airline customer service.

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TechSee

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Monitoring on-shelf availability and visibility can be a real problem when there’s no one around to detect the blind spots, and having area managers spend long hours traveling from store to store to verify and approve inventory placement is not ideal. How AI enables self-service in CPG inventory management.

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JustCall

APRIL 8, 2024

Seasonal spikes or fluctuations in customer demand Certain industries, such as retail and travel, experience predictable patterns of increased demand. Introduction of new customer service channels (e.g., Self-service options reduce agent workload, improve efficiency, and enhance scalability during peak periods.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 1, 2024

Machine learning (ML) technologies continually improve and power the contact center customer experience by providing solutions for capabilities like self-service bots, live call analytics, and post-call analytics. Anand lives in Dallas, Texas and enjoys travelling.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Offering self-service materials and guided walkthroughs helps clients get what they need. . Onboarding is incomplete without it. Recognize that each user’s onboarding needs will vary. Others may be new to your SaaS product and need extensive training. Plan for collecting and acting on consumer feedback. .

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 24, 2023

So, even though I think waiting is usually bad (like at the self-service check-out at the store), there are cases where it provides anticipation, which is fun and beneficial to the experience. Interestingly, when you can turn some of those costs into additional benefits, that breaks down that equation.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 16, 2017

Approaches to customer service are continually shifting to keep up with how people adopt new technology. Self-service, web chat and chat bots gain in popularity. But which customer service medium is the most effective? Travel is just one industry that will always use voice for customer interactions.

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SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

They changed how people travel and enjoy time away from home. My husband and I love to travel and almost always use Airbnb. Airbnb makes travel easier for guests and gives millions of hosts a chance to share their space, their passions, and their interests with travellers from all over the world.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I have triggers in my travel experience or environment. As I booked the ticket for international travel (aka, the trigger), my Intuitive System recalls that I should now book a taxi (the automatic response). . The airlines were smart about interrupting automatic and repetitive behavior when they installed self-check-in kiosks.

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Aspect

APRIL 17, 2018

When my sister checked in at the airport for her outbound flight she discovered an issue with her frequent traveler number, A.K.A. On the eve of her departure, my sister started making phone calls to see if she could get to the bottom of her frequent traveler number. TSA Pre-Check. Once again, after a long hold, she was disconnected.

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Toister Performance Solutions

MAY 7, 2020

Confusing or broken self-service options. Write self-service articles in plain language Many self-service articles are poorly written or contain excessive industry jargon that make them difficult for customers to read and understand. Dixon shared an example from the travel website, Travelocity.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

Amazon Lex provides advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable self-service support for your organization’s contact center. The bots can answer FAQs, provide self-service experiences, or triage customer requests before transferring to a human agent.

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Spearline

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Familiar applications include telephone banking, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) functions, or accessing conference services like Zoom, Webex and others. It is an audio signal and can lose fidelity as it travels through networks to its destination. Ultimately this self-service helps reduce call handling times and call misroutes.

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