Changing Sales, Marketing, and Customer Engagement Through Technology in the Hotel Industry
Grabbing customers’ attention used to be a time-taking but simple task in the past. Directory listings, radio, and print ads were the most popular and preferred mediums for targeting customers. On the other hand, customers also had limited choices. Direct telephone bookings or contacting travel agents were the only ways to book a room in a hotel. However, the internet changed everything, and the evolution in IT brought a paradigm shift to sales, marketing, and customer engagement in the hotel industry.
