Category: : Marketing Management for Hospitality Leaders

  • Reality vs Expectations: Exploring the Impact of Digitalization on Luxury Hotel Guest Experience “Thriving in the Digital Era: Strategies for Hotel Managers in the Age of Technology” Title: “Gamification in Loyalty Programs: Bridging the Gap between Expectations and Reality”

    i need you to do the comparison between reality vs expectations where reality is the interview done with the professional Mr Shaub and expectations is the research done by us I will provide you with the research references 
    references: 
    Ristova, C., & Dimitrov, N. (2019). Digitalisation in the hospitality industry-trends that might shape the next stay of guests. International Journal of Information, Business and Management, 11(3), 144-154. 
    Sudhagar, D. P. (2019). Digitalization in the hotel industry-An exploratory study to understand the digitalization involvement in hotels. Advance and Innovative Research, 6(1), 100-105. 
    Youssofi, A., Jeannot, F., Jongmans, E., & Dampérat, M. (2024). Designing the digitalized guest experience: A comprehensive framework and research agenda. Psychology & Marketing, 41(3), 512-531. 
    https://www.hospitalityinvestor.com/esg/how-use-technology-track-s-esg 
    THE IMPACT OF INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE AND ONLINE SERVICE QUALITY ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION WITH THE MEDIATION OF CONSUMER VALUE PERCEPTION 
    Futuristic hospitality conceptualized: DASH – Decentralized Autonomous and Smart Hotel system 
    Decoding the shared pathways of consumer technology experience in hospitality and tourism: A meta-analysis 
    https://www.glion.edu/magazine/technology-in-hospitality-industry/ 
    https://www.timesnownews.com/education/luxury-hospitality-in-the-digital-age-the-influence-of-online-reviews-and-social-media-article-106356693 
    https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4083265.html 
    https://www.rahimkanani.com/technology-enhancing-luxury-hospitality 
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0148296320303313 
    https://www.babinc.org/humanising-luxury-hospitality-with-technology/ 
    View of Technology and Guest Experience: Innovations Reshaping Hotel management. (n.d.). https://www.chandigarhphilosophers.com/index.php/ijmrp/article/view/88/73 
    this is the interview transcript for my part: 
    So now we know that the world is heading towards the digital
    marketing. I would like to ask you these questions. Could you explain how the
    luxury hotel collect and utilise the gift data to enhance their personalised
    experience in the digital marketing?
    0:4:43.680 –> 0:4:43.880
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Mm hmm.
    0:4:44.910 –> 0:5:14.190
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Well, what you have to to to understand is that nowadays collecting data is
    fairly easy collect, but then what is hard for to use is what they make out of
    it. So they will collect a tonne of data and then be in front of a lot of
    information and they won’t know what to do. And so nowadays hoteliers have to
    really put together a strategy to say I’m going to collect that information
    this way and maintain it this way.
    0:5:14.700 –> 0:5:44.420
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    O for example, when someone books, you will collect the name, the e-mail, the
    where they’re coming from. Maybe some references for the room, et cetera. It’s
    one thing to collect it. It’s another thing to actually use it. If you know
    that they prefer high room floors and because they’ve declared it or because of
    past days, you know that they prefer rooms an 8 instead of a four or a room
    without 13. I’m I’m using simple example, but of course you can go much beyond
    that.
    0:5:45.250 –> 0:6:15.450
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    It’s a good it’s one thing to know it and maintain that information up to date.
    It’s another thing to actually implement it and associate a room that is, that
    is the correct one. Now if we take a bit more complex example of pre stay, if
    you know your guest flight details and if you use them to know that the guest
    is going to arrive late or arrive earlier because the flight has been delayed
    or cancelled or anything like that it.
    0:6:15.490 –> 0:6:17.970
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    These are information that you can act upon as a luxury hotelier.
    0:6:18.810 –> 0:6:51.850
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    So there’s one side that is collecting that information, which you can collect
    on your website to some extent on OTAs and and other places where you can
    collect information. But then it is the role of the hotelier to actually use it
    and make it actionable and available to the team at the front office. I have an
    example that I’ll take you through this example afterwards where Houdini’s are
    really using technology in a great way to deliver a great experience. But I’m
    going to let you go through your questions and then I’ll give you an example.
    0:6:53.280 –> 0:7:14.280
    Célia Valentine RICHARD
    Thank you for your response. So it’s still in the topic of digital marketing
    and data analysis. I wanted to ask you that in the context of this generation’s
    increasing reliance on digital technology, which strategies can the hotel
    manager use to thrive and adapt within this digital era?
    0:7:15.160 –> 0:7:45.280
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Mm hmm, good question. So you have to understand where your future potential
    guest is and interact with that guest on that platform. So you you mentioned
    new generation that are indeed all in front of the screen. Don’t try to steer
    them to your website if all they want to do is be on Instagram, Tiktok,
    whatever social media, if you know that they are there, understand that you
    have to interact with them.
    0:7:45.610 –> 0:7:52.250
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    On these platforms, but when you do interact with them on these platforms and
    know that you’re interrupting their scroll.
    0:7:53.370 –> 0:8:7.930
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    And if you don’t bring value, if you don’t bring something for the person that
    you’re trying to attract, you’re not gonna attract them. And also bear in mind
    that we’re not in purchase mode 100% of the time.
    0:8:7.970 –> 0:8:16.850
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    There’s a really big chance that the person seeing your video or your or your
    your image will not be at that very moment in purchase mode.
    0:8:17.540 –> 0:8:24.260
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Probably in inspire mode or in just browsing mode or filling spare time, which
    is the second most.
    0:8:26.120 –> 0:8:32.320
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Well, second biggest reason for using social media so know which context you’re
    serving them which contents.
    0:8:33.560 –> 0:8:36.240
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    It is a tremendous opportunity to.
    0:8:37.880 –> 0:8:52.40
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Tell your story and and bring the values of the hotel towards a lot of
    different medias. But you have to understand in which mindset they are when you
    show them that and understand what purpose it is it serves for your hotel.
    0:8:54.130 –> 0:9:2.90
    Célia Valentine RICHARD
    OK, Sir, can you provide us an example how a digital gamification is used to
    improve the GEST engagement?
    0:9:3.630 –> 0:9:8.430
    Célia Valentine RICHARD
    And the enjoyment of the luxury retails to like does it have an impact on the
    guest loyalty?
    0:9:9.980 –> 0:9:15.580
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Absolutely another good question. Gamification provides the essential.
    0:9:17.140 –> 0:9:24.380
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Mechanism that people will want to come back and back and back and back to you
    because gamification is essentially.
    0:9:25.640 –> 0:9:30.640
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Generating what Tiktok does really well, generating dopamine, generating
    instant reward.
    0:9:32.190 –> 0:9:42.670
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    That’s a very quick skill, and so digital technologies allow you to do a
    loyalty programme very easily, very quickly for a lot of different guest and.
    0:9:44.190 –> 0:10:2.670
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Miles and more, and Bonvoy Hilton honours all of these programmes allow you not
    only to know your guest really well to entice them to spend more with you, to
    earn more points, to then spend these points with you, and this loyalty will,
    if you if you do it well.
    0:10:3.690 –> 0:10:33.810
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    People will go out of their way to book with you, so I personally have a
    tendency, as you know from my class to book Marriott, because I used to work
    for them, but also for for flights to bookmarks and more. And I will literally
    go out of my way even if the times are not as good as what I expected or what I
    wanted to fly miles and more or to stay with Merritt. Now, of course. And
    that’s more of an economical thing there is.
    0:10:33.850 –> 0:10:34.890
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Some elasticity in my.
    0:10:35.810 –> 0:11:6.730
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    In my in this, if the flight is the all the price on miles and more, I’m not
    gonna go and book that. But my first reflex will be that and the way they do
    that is gamification. They give me points. They give me status and I feel
    welcome. I feel like I belong to something in this, that sense of belonging is
    even before digital, it’s on the Maslow theory of needs. You need food,
    shelter, etcetera. And then you need to belong. Loyalty programmes allow you to
    belong to something.
    0:11:7.350 –> 0:11:14.190
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    And working on that with gamification and making you grow and that belonging is
    extremely efficient.
    0:11:15.220 –> 0:11:28.620
    Célia Valentine RICHARD
    OK, so gamification is also important for the hotel, so they can know who is
    the who’s the the. Yeah, need their loyal guest. So later on they will give
    them like sort of like a special service.
    0:11:29.830 –> 0:11:52.110
    Frederic Schaub EXT
    Mm hmm, they they might give special service, but what is the the
    differentiator nowadays? Is anyone can give you a room upgrade, it’s easy.
    Anyone can give you a free late check out. That’s the easy or free breakfast.
    So that doesn’t make the difference. What makes the difference is the
    experience that nothing else can buy.
    i need you to do a comparison between the reality vs expectations in 1 slide only in bullet points
    and I need you to do the conclusions for the entire ppt I will send you the transcript of the interview and based on that do the conclusion of the entire ppt please 
    thank you