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We're excited to announce the launch of our Bespoke Customer Service Agent (BCS-A) pilot programmes designed specifically for luxury hospitality brands ready to elevate their guest experience through innovative AI solutions. Why BCS-A for Luxury Hospitality? Our AI-powered BCS-As seamlessly blend into your brand identity while delivering exceptional service across multiple touch-points. Each agent is fully customised to reflect your hotel's unique character, communication s

The VCSAs can be employed not only to represent a hotel as a whole, but can also be employed to focus on enhancing a specific area.

In recent days, we've been exploring various AI forecasts for 2025. Generally, we are not inclined towards predictions, as they can stem...

When it comes to AI Assistants , like any other product or process, there are specific guidelines to follow. In other words, Dos and Don'ts. The Dos focus on effective practices that benefit customers. while the Don'ts are practices that hinder customer relations. Regrettably, many tech companies providing 'guidance' and services to the hospitality sector lack a deep understanding of hospitality. Consequently, their advice and final products often impede rather than improve t

The only reason GHotel Hotel & Living Bohum came to our attention was the mention of ' Fritz ' - a virtual avatar that has been claimed by one of the research papers on AI to having transformed the hotel self-check-in. Apparently, Fritz was designed to help with ' a humanlike presence, providing information, and responding to enquiries, delivering customised recommendations, and engaging in small talk ' . We have not had a chance to check out Fritz, but what we had an opport

Club Med, previously known as Club Méditerranée SA, a French travel and tourism operator headquartered in Paris, has recently announced the launch of a WhatsApp based Club Med AI Assistant. Good news one might think, right? Well, we also thought so until we have tested Club Med AI Assistant. Our conversation with the Club Med AI Assistant started with the following inquiry: ' Hi, I would be interested in resorts in the Alps for hiking .' The answer to our inquiry was lengthy,

Definition of AI Concierge: An AI Concierge can be defined as a technologically advanced, intelligent and personalised assistant, inspired by the traditional concierge concept. It is designed to cater to a customer’s psychological, emotional, and physical needs throughout their service journey, employing proactive measures to enhance their experience  (Li et al., 2022; Sumner and Quinn, 2017). The concept is often mistakenly equated with chatbots. An AI Concierge differs fro

Regardless the industry of application text-based AI Assistants (BCS-As) are based on LLMs (Large Language Models) agents. Depending on their functionality these LLM agents can be divided into the following types: Task-Specific Agents Conversational Agents Decision Support Agents Workflow Automation Agents Collaborative Agents Predictive Agents Adaptive Learning Agents General Agents As we deal with Bespoke Customer Service Assistants (the BCS-As) for the hospitality indus

Definitions of Context An online Oxford dictionary describes ' context ' as the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help explain it. According to an online Merriam-Webster dictionary ' context ' is the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning. Context in relation to Large Language Models (LLM) agents Within LLM agents, which serve as the base of any text-based AI Assistant (BCS-A), the notion of conte