Luxury Hoteliers Magazine 4th Quarter 2018 | Page 33

HOW DO YOU MEASURE GUEST SATISFACTION EFFECTIVELY? We leverage multiple tools to measure satisfaction. Historically organizations would rely heavily on the post-stay survey to gather insight into the guest view of their experience. At MGM Resorts we not only leverage our survey, but put a strong focus on our social media and social review sites, as this information gives us a real-time opportunity to not only hear our guests’ stories but actually do something about it before the guest leaves one of our properties. Our studies have shown that a guest is far more likely to become a loyal repeat guest if we are able to resolve any potential opportunities while they are still with us, versus after their stay. There are many organizations property operators are the ones who own satisfaction as a key element of their business, and our guest experience teams partner with them to constantly find opportunities to improve and enhance our operations. We have also implemented a new, simple set of guest service basics across our enterprise, making it easier for our employees to understand where the focus on maintaining satisfaction is managed out of a corporate office, at MGM Resorts that is not the case. We believe that everyone in our organization owns the guest experience, and have made an effort to decentralize this thought process operationally. Our the most basic expectations that our guests have while they are in our properties. Lastly, we have taken a great leap forward in truly trusting all of our employees to be able to fix and resolve a guest issue, no matter which department they work in at any of our properties. HOW DO YOU WORK WITH YOUR TEAM ON MAINTAINING HIGH GUEST SATISFACTION LEVELS? ILHA 33