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Customer Analytics for Hotels

Every hotel manager knows that providing just a little better service than the competi­tion will shift the guest's share of wallet in your direction. Knowing what services mat­ter, how to best reach guests, what to offer them and how to identify opportunities to attract new guests is the real challenge. However, tracking each guest interaction and using that information to predict future behaviors, collect preferences, identify cross-sell and up-sell opportunities, and find new customers will increase revenue and profits.

Why SAS®?

A North American cruise line realized the following results by using SAS:

  • The database staff can now build and test a model in days vs. weeks.
  • Response rates for e-mail messages doubled.
  • The rate of repeat customers increased by double digits.

Hotel success stories


How SAS® Can Help 

Understanding guest behavior is necessary for long-term growth and vital for survival in a highly competitive environment. We approach the problem by providing software and services to help you:

  • Gain a 360-degree view of the guest by automatically accessing, cleansing and consolidating disparate guest data into a single version of the truth.
  • Maximize guest satisfaction by using guest data to track needs and preferences and to identify opportunities to "wow" your guests.
  • Increase retention rates by using predictive analytics to identify behaviors that signal attrition so you can do something about it before it happens – not when it's already too late.
  • Create highly effective promotions by using predictive analytics to target the right guest with the right offers, which will increase response rates and decrease costs.
  • Increase guest loyalty and maximize guest profitability by mining guest data to determine what drives guest loyalty and to identify promising cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.

Advanced customer analytics from SAS can unlock insights in your guest data, and you can use those insights to improve loyalty, increase retention and generate additional revenue and profits.

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How SAS® Is Different 

SAS® Customer Intelligence provides the most comprehensive enterprise mar­keting solution for your data-driven marketing process. While other vendors offer com­ponents that can satisfy some of your needs, SAS delivers the only complete set of capabilities available on the market with localized global support. With SAS, you get:

  • Superior analytics.
  • Market-leading data management and data quality.
  • A path for growth and evolution.

Only SAS provides the market-leading analytics to turn volumes of guest data into meaningful insight, allowing you to develop deeper relationships with your guests while growing revenue and profits.

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