Mobile Apps Are A Boon For The Hotel Industry

Posted by Think Hotels
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Nov 13, 2015
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The hospitality industry is out of the most competitive businesses around and for hotels to increase their profits and remain at the top of their league, they constantly need to innovate and upgrade their facilities and services. This is where technology comes to the rescue and helps them to reinvent and improve existing arrangements in a variety of ways. They cannot just depend on improving the quality of customer service to cater to the client's needs. They have to go that extra step and show that they genuinely care for the comfort and welfare of their guests and need to be pro-active in fulfilling their needs and requests.

Since modern travellers are frequently on the go most use their smart phones to search for and make accommodation reservations online. Most leading hotels these days offer guests the facility of checking in, changing reservations, contacting customer service etc. while they are travelling. These options have been given because studies have shown that the majority of frequent travellers use portable devices to plan a trip or conduct hotel research, especially in last minute travel. Therefore it is imperative for all hotels big or small to offer mobile solutions for hotel visitors in an increasing technology driven world. This has lead to an ever increasing demand for hotel apps development with hotels all across the world opting for them as these apps help to improve customer satisfaction, lower operational costs, increase profits and offer guests a powerful hotel search tool. The use of mobile applications can lead to higher levels of customer service and a positive experience for guests. Some of the benefits of using mobile apps for a hotel are:

  • It simplifies the process of getting in touch with the hotel, while providing hotels an opportunity to reach their clients worldwide and receive more guests and business travellers.
  • Hotel apps provide a platform to build a strong link with customers while meeting all the guests' requirements. When guests download the app customers it shows that are want to use your service on more than one occasion.
  • It could serve as an additional marketing resource that will help to raise brand awareness and generate income especially when clients have your brand logo icon on their mobile screen.
  • Having a custom built mobile app goes a long way to improve customer service and also helps to retain an edge over other competitors in the niche market and establishes the hotel as being unique and contemporary which caters to the needs of the modern traveller.
  • Mobile apps serve as a source of information source which will update visitors with the most recent travel news and other useful information.
  • It offers a good platform to communicate with a target audience before, during and even after their stay at the hotel.
  • It offers hotel and business owners an additional tool to market and implement new marketing strategies, which will target a focus group.
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