Player Incentives: Don’t Give Away the House
Almost all segments of the leisure and hospitality industries utilize loyalty programs. Airlines, hotels, rental car companies and even restaurants employ methodologies to induce repeat visitation, foster loyalty and build long term relationships with their more frequent and most profitable customers. The airline industry first instituted these programs in the early 1980’s and was followed by hotel and rental car companies. Today, a wide variety of retail industries employ some form of reward programs. They have all come to understand the value of incentives rewarding frequent users of their products and services. While there are no hard and fast rules regarding the percentage of customer reinvestment, it is generally assumed that these industries return between 2% and 15% of the theoretical revenue derived from their loyal customers in the form of various incentives.
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