How B&B Hotels Gains More Visibility and Customer Insights With TrustYou’s Guest Satisfaction Surveys
Oliver Goslich, Director of Sales and Marketing at B&B HOTELS, shares the company's results with TrustYou's online surveys and online reputation monitoring tools. B&B HOTELS is the fastest growing hotel chain in Germany, with more than 65 properties across the country.
Oliver Goslich, Director of Sales and Marketing at B&B HOTELS, shares the company's results with TrustYou's online surveys and online reputation monitoring tools. B&B HOTELS is the fastest growing hotel chain in Germany, with more than 65 properties across the country.
Q. Mr. Goslich, what is your approach to B&B HOTELS' online reputation management program?
A. B&B HOTELS takes its hotels' online reputations very seriously, so much so that our Managing Director reads every single new review written about each of our 65+ properties. We take a holistic approach to reputation management: using TrustYou's monitoring tools to track our hotels' performance and improve as needed. Then at the end of 2012, we began using TrustYou's surveys to gain even more feedback from our guests and will soon add review scores and summaries to our website.
Q. Can you elaborate on how post-stay surveys play into your online reputation management program?
A. TrustYou's surveys allow us to gain more feedback from our guests using surveys that are customized with our own branding and custom questions. Furthermore, we are able to distribute the surveys to third-party sites like Holidaycheck, giving us more reviews and more visibility on these important websites.
Q. So how do you analyze survey results?
A. Within TrustYou's monitoring tool, we can easily break out our hotel scores by source, including survey data. Through the analysis of our own guest feedback, we have been able to further optimize our services and learn what sets us apart from the competition.
Q. Are you able to share any metrics about how the surveys have helped to improve your online reputation?
A. We have gained 18,000 new reviews from TrustYou's surveys. In fact, so far in 2014 these surveys account for 28% of all reviews written about B&B HOTELS. They also average 7% higher scores than reviews written on other channels.
Q. Where do you see the future of your online reputation management program going?
A. We recently renewed a multi-year contract with TrustYou so that we can build on our successes with new offerings like the multiple survey functionality, which will allow our hotels unlimited capabilities to ask guests about specific aspects of their stay. And we'll integrate the Marketing Widgets onto our website so that we can proactively let travelers know about our reputation and increase conversion rates.
About TrustYou
TrustYou is the #1 Hospitality AI platform. Since 2008, the company has supported hotels and hotel groups worldwide in turning guest feedback, customer data, and automated interactions into measurable results. The platform unifies three core products in one system:
- Customer Experience Platform (CXP): Centralizes all reviews and surveys, applies AI-driven analysis, and automatically responds to feedback with ResponseAI. Hotels gain deeper insights into the guest experience, strengthen their online reputation, and make more informed service decisions.
- Customer Data Platform (CDP): Consolidates all guest data into so-called Golden Profiles, integrates consent management, and enables precise audience segmentation. This powers personalized marketing campaigns, drives more direct bookings, and fosters long-term guest loyalty.
- AI Agent: Handles 100% of inbound communication—24/7, in any language, and across all channels. The TrustYou Agent delivers instant, context-aware responses, support bookings, upselling, and free up operational teams.
With TrustYou, hotels invest in a future-ready platform that makes the Always-Reply Future a reality: better guest experiences, more direct revenue, and more efficient operations.
Learn more at www.trustyou.com.