UK Customer Experience Awards winner Feefo is revealing good news for the travel industry, with a new study showing 70 percent of UK holidaymakers believe a good experience is provided by companies.
The reviews ands customer insights firm, which won Silver in the Best use of Insight & Feedback – Solution or Programme category at the UKCXA finals in London’s Wembley Stadium last year – has published a new eBook using research conducted among 500 UK consumers.
It provides exclusive insights into fast-emerging travel trends from significant industry insiders such as Karl Thompson, Managing Director of Sandals UK & Europe; Gavin Tollman, CEO of Trafalgar Travel Group, and Austin Houghton-Bird, Online Customer Experience Manager at UK Complaint Handling Awards winner Thomas Cook.
Although the research finds most consumers are positive about Customer Experience in the travel industry, 30 percent are either unhappy or unimpressed with what they paid for. Moreover, only a little more than half of the 16-24 age group (54 percent) have a positive word to say about their most recent experience of booking a holiday.
Matt West, CEO at Feefo, said: “There are still serious CX gaps in the travel industry, even though the research is broadly positive. As our highly-respected contributors make clear, consumers in today’s experience economy value consistent quality and uniqueness over mundane factors such as price.
“The relatively low level of satisfaction in the 16-24 age group, for example, indicates how too often, younger travellers don’t find the unusual or spectacular ‘Instragrammable’ experiences they demand. Or it may be the full integration of technology which they take for granted, was not available.
Matt added: “Successful operators know they must use cutting-edge customer insight tools to understand demand and keep ahead of changes in sentiment or taste.”