Guest Insights

If you work in the travel industry, your customers aren’t the only ones going somewhere. Your business is also on a journey: a customer experience (CX) journey that follows your customers from their first interaction with your brand to their destination and beyond.

The hospitality industry prides itself on offering personalized experiences to its guests. To facilitate these experiences, however, hotels, resorts, and cruise ships collect personally identifiable information (PII), from mobile phone numbers to driver’s license numbers. All this PII data makes hospitality providers a desirable target for cybercriminals that profit from re-selling this data on the dark web or holding it hostage via ransomware.

As leisure travel returns to its pre-pandemic levels, the hospitality industry has reason to rejoice. The pent-up demand for travel has exceeded expectations, with analysts predicting a full recovery for the industry sooner than expected. As guests return, however, they’ll be greeted by more technology as part of their guest experience. With many hotels and cruise ships still facing labor shortages, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology are used to bridge the gap between the growing demand for personalized experiences and a shrinking pool of people to deliver them.

On-prem, private hosted, and hybrid Unified Communications (UC) platforms offer unique advantages for education, hospitality, and retail organizations. Among participating companies in those industries in Metrigy’s Workplace Collaboration: 2023-24 global research study, almost 32% use on-premises UC platforms, while 24.7% use a private cloud solution.

The demand for a more hands-free environment has become increasingly prevalent as we reassess what it means to interact with each other in an ever-increasing digital world. A contactless world was always on the horizon across various industries. The pandemic just accelerated the demand.

The hospitality industry suffered more than most at the height of the pandemic, forcing hotels to re-examine priorities as the world shifted into a new normal. Because so many people have taken the time to consider what’s most important to them, travel has become more than just an escape from day-to-day life. A place to sleep isn’t enough. Today’s travelers seek experiences that make them feel connected at every step of their journey.

Mitel’s Hospitality Specialization recognizes the partners who invest in Mitel in both revenue and expertise.