How Chatbots Can Help You If Your Business is in the Hospitality or Tourism Field

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The more sophisticated technology becomes, the smarter consumers get about what they want. Now that consumers began to favor digital brand interaction, marketers quickly latched on and began to cultivate a breeding ground for E-commerce on social media and messaging platforms, and chatbots and AI are the number one technology that businesses can rely on to meet the ever-evolving needs and demands of consumers. Here’s how chatbots become vital in the online operations of today’s hospitality and tourism enterprises:

 

    • Chatbots are multilingual and conversational – They can be programmed to speak and understand any language and relate to the user with conversational terms. With clearly defined intent and the right keywords, chatbots will be able to detect the purpose of the communication, solve problems, and accomplish a transaction.

 

    • Chatbots make way for optimal user experience – Aside from transforming the path of purchase by keeping the entire process of booking flights and hotels inside the messaging app, chatbots are capable of on-demand 24-hour information and service which promotes the minimum response and resolution time, making every interaction satisfactory.

 

    • Chatbots add more functions to existing services – They give the user the power of flexibility and choice with advanced features such as filtering flights, restaurants, and hotels according to the user’s requirements, analyzing profiles and preferences to recommend directions, tips, and amenities, and acquiring ratings, complaints, and other forms of feedback. Chatbots act as a new reservation channel as well as a logbook for the journey of the user from booking to reviewing.

 

    • Chatbots convert engagement to purchase – Content delivered by chatbots can be manipulated to not just engage users but drive them into making a purchase. Travel guides, effective budgeting practices, and handy photography techniques are some helpful and inspiring content that your chatbot can relay to get the user from the ‘dreaming phase’ to the ‘booking phase.’

 

All these and more await your business. Stay on top and get a bot for your hotel or travel agency now! Contact Alfafusion, the Philippines’ leading builder of sophisticated bots.

How Chatbots Take Your Airline’s Services to Greater Heights

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The travel industry was one of the first players in the field to take the lead in profiting from new technology such as chatbots because they are the key to automated transactions and augmented customer experience. Since messaging apps are the new social media, chatbots are the prime tool used by businesses to interact with consumers because of their omnipresence and omnicompetence. Here’s how top airlines like KLM and AirAsia lift up their services with their very own chatbots on Facebook Messenger:

 

 

  • Booking – Now online reservations and bookings have never been easier, all thanks to chatbots that can get you plane tickets at the best time, date, price, and destination, with complementary hotel or restaurant recommendations. Chatbots present customers with plenty of choices to get the best deals online.

 

  • Flight information – Chatbots can provide passengers handy flight information that keeps their flight details intact and compact. They can also provide passengers easy access to other flights from different origins to different destinations as well as flight arrivals and departures for more coordinated pick-up and drop-off schedules.

 

  • Flight alerts and notifications – KLM and Avianca Airlines use their bots on Facebook Messenger for passenger check-in to prevent last-minute run-ins and promote a convenient, secure, and orderly flight system through flight alerts and notifications. Chatbots can also have an integrated reminder feature so that passengers never lose track of their boarding time.

 

  • Customer care – Because of chatbots, customers don’t have to call or email for customer support and wait for a response. Chatbots can provide prompt, accurate, helpful resolutions in conversational terms which helps minimize response time and maximize customer satisfaction. Aside from that, chatbots help you cut down on the time, cost, and staff needed for repetitive tasks such as answering FAQs.

 

  • Sales – Chatbots help in cross-selling and upselling by providing customers with suggestions and recommendations in the form of push notifications based on their interests, preferences, past transactions, and budget which promises a better return on investment.

 

  • Tour Guide – Chatbots can also be programmed to be a customer’s local tour guide by displaying reviews and suggestions based on their location to elevate the level of customer experience that your brand can provide.

 

 

All these and more are enough reasons why you should let chatbots join your airline’s crew. Book a bot demo now with Alfafusion, the leading chatbot provider in the Philippines that designs superior chatbots for local and global corporations.