Should Airlines & Hotels Extend Elite Status in Times of Crisis?
Extend elite status or Not to extend elite status?
That's the million-dollar question circling around the travel loyalty industry lately. The unprecedented grounding of aircraft,...
Leadership Interview: Can Airlines Have Too Many Elite Members?
Can airlines and hotel loyalty programs have too many elite members?
What happens to the core business when programs are top-heavy on elites?
Does the core...
Leadership Interview: Reinventing Loyalty Programs
Industry veterans, Dave Canty and Phil Gunter join the Loyalty Summit WebCast to discuss reinventing loyalty programs.
In the Loyalty Leaders Insights discussion series, we...
Disrupting loyalty: How can hotels become enablers, not just destinations?
The location is everything in the hotel world.
But are hotels doing enough to make the most of their locations and enable better experiences for...
Airlines – Wakeup and Smell the Money
Some of the brightest people in the travel sector have hung up their boots and are beginning new careers in other industries - and...
IHG turns its back on loyal OTA guests
Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) is the latest major global hotel chain to cut off loyalty perks for elite loyalty members who make their reservations...
Loyalty Status Matching – What’s the Future?
According to research by Loyalty Data Co, up to 60% of all Status Match submissions are fraudulent.
With no way to know how many times...
Will airlines & hotels ever end the unlimited free elite status extensions?
Over the past two years -Â airlines, hotels and travel companies extended complimentary status for elites because, Covid.
These elite status extensions were mainly justified...
The New Frontier For Loyalty: Making Money
The New Frontier For Loyalty: Making Money
Large firms often use the latest buzzwords to make it sound like they know something about loyalty that...
