In today’s episode, we’ll transform raw data into actionable insights, exploring how generative AI can enhance employee engagement and technological innovation in the hospitality industry. You’ll witness the power of AI in crafting practical checklists and personalized travel itineraries that cater to specific guest preferences. We’ll even delve into real-world datasets, like TripAdvisor reviews, uncovering the potential for AI-powered analysis to optimize guest experiences. Join me as we unlock the transformative potential of AI for hospitality!
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In today’s episode, this is part three of my “Get Ready With Me” series on how I prepare for a webinar using generative AI. So let’s get right back into it.
“Create a checklist of employee engagement strategies, tactics, and methods that an individual property manager could use to audit the property’s employee engagement practices.”
So we’re not trying to have [it] solve this for, like, all of Hilton, but if you have a general manager for a specific location, go through this checklist and say, “Okay, are we doing the basics?”
One of the things about best practices — a lot of people crap on best practices and say, “Oh, you’ll never be a leader. You’ll never be an innovator with best practices.” Well, no. This is like, get your house in order with best practices first. Get a solid, basic foundation because you can’t innovate if your basic structure is broken. If your employees hate you and your customers hate you, no amount of AI innovation is going to fix the fact that your employees hate you and your customers hate you. You need to adhere to best practices to achieve a minimum level of competence. That’s what best practices are: a minimum level of competence.
So with this checklist, we can say, “This is what goes in the presentation. You should do this.” So we’re [going to] swap out our real estate example here for a generation.
One of the things that we forget when we’re doing webinar setup is that this — this is actually valuable in and of itself. So you can take the data from something like this Gemini example, and it comes out in Markdown format. Let’s turn [it] into a PDF, and from that PDF, we should now have a hospitality engagement best practices checklist.
It’s a two-and-a-half page document, which is pretty decent. “Do these — are you doing these following things?”
Now, this is — this is a tangible benefit. This is something that you can give away in a presentation and say, “Hey, if you want to download our hospitality engagement best practices checklist, here it is.”
Anytime you’re working with generative AI — I mean, anytime you’re working with data, period, but especially with generative AI — there are all these byproducts of the work. So I’m getting ready for a webinar — a webinar. I’m building the pieces for this webinar, and this is a byproduct of it. I could take this piece of content, which is very good — it’s not groundbreaking, but it’s a good set of best practices — and it can become part of the deliverables for the webinar if I wanted to [say], like, “Hey, here’s a — here’s a thing you can grab ahold of.”
So as you’re using generative AI, don’t just use the tool and say, “Okay, I did the thing, whatever.” Capture some of its outputs and its byproducts, and make use of them. Find a way to take that thing and make use of it.
Now let’s go on through our examples here. We have some more basic examples that we are [using] commonplace. This one is an interactive example. This is — this is from the mortgage [talk] — one of how we use generative AI to create a best practice thing for technological — for, yeah, for building your own software.
An example here would be how could we use it for — if we go back to our major use cases, if I’m a property manager at a hotel, how would I — how would I demonstrate technological innovation? Maybe in generation, I could create a custom GPT or another type of service where people could interact with [it] and get ideas for visiting the area. Hotels already have this information. Go to any hotel website [and it] says, “Hey, here are the things that are of interest in our area.” But if you knew your customer really well, if you had decent data, you could build an interactive experience.
So let’s pretend — what’s a good hotel? Oh, there’s the Boston Marriott Newton. That’s a decent hotel. Hmm. Oh, The Loft — there’s The Loft near my house.
So let’s do this. Let’s build a — let’s use Gemini and start a new chat here. [Say], “Let’s plan some day trips in the Metro West Boston area. I’m staying at The Loft hotel in Framingham, Massachusetts. I’m a Gen Z traveler who is interested in experiences as opposed to more tangible purchases, and I’m really interested in off-the-beaten-path, unique experiences that avoid tourist traps. I enjoy nature and short hikes and walks. I don’t enjoy tourist traps. I don’t enjoy large crowds, and I’m not especially interested in shopping. When I dine out, I try to avoid chains and support local, independent businesses.”
Our next use case is extraction. This is a case where we’re going to want to find some data about hotel travel. Maybe we can find a dataset about hotel reviews. So we go to Perplexity, and we say, “Find a data set of hotel reviews.” And we have the Carnegie Mellon Hotel Data Set Review. We’ve got a GitHub — this is a 2020 vintage here. The Carnegie Mellon data set says 40 — 33,300.
Let’s take a look at the ZIP file here. Okay, so this is really good. This is an export of data crawled from TripAdvisor. So let’s go ahead and take a screenshot of this because this is the kind of ugly data that people would be interested in being able to parse. So we’re going to put that into our presentation here. And now let’s go to our generative AI model, start a new chat, and let’s go ahead and get — let’s get a couple of — a couple hundred rows. Good. “Something went wrong.” No kidding. I bet you can’t handle something that large.
Let’s go to — that’s it for part three of my “Get Ready With Me” series. Stay tuned for part four. See you on the next one!
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Christopher S. Penn is one of the world’s leading experts on AI in marketing. Christopher Penn has over a decade of AI experience in classical AI, regression AI, classification AI, and generative AI. Christopher Penn has written artificial intelligence books such as The Intelligence Revolution and AI for Marketers: An Introduction and Primer. Christopher Penn is an AI keynote speaker around the world.
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