Your Post-Trip Follow-Up Agent Keeps Travelers Coming Back to You
The Post-Trip Follow-Up Agent in EngageSuite360 keeps the relationship going after a traveler comes home: it welcomes them back, sends a personal survey while the trip is fresh, routes any refund claim from a supplier problem to the right person, and starts the conversation about their next trip at the moment they are thinking about it. The person it frees is the advisor who is busy with travelers about to depart and has no time left for the ones who just returned.
What it takes off your plate
Advisors are honest about it: "Post-trip follow-up is the first thing I drop when we're busy. The survey goes out weeks later, if at all, and people barely remember the trip. A traveler mentions the hotel didn't honor the room type and asks about a refund, and the email sits in my inbox. And I know they're thinking about next year's trip, but I never get back to them in time."
Every one of those gaps costs the agency. Feedback that could improve the next trip is lost. A refund left sitting turns a good trip into a complaint. And the traveler most likely to book again drifts to another agency or a booking site because nobody asked.
What the Post-Trip Follow-Up Agent does, step by step
The agent starts with the communication, because the days after a trip are when a traveler is most willing to talk:
- Welcomes the traveler home. Shortly after return, the Post-Trip Follow-Up Agent sends a personal note in the advisor's name, referring to the trip they took.
- Sends a personal survey. It asks about the parts of the trip that mattered, from each hotel and guide to transfers, while memories are fresh, and follows up once if there is no reply.
- Routes refund claims. When a traveler reports a supplier problem, it opens a claim with the booking details and the supplier's terms attached, routes it to the advisor, and keeps the traveler updated as the claim moves. Whether and how to pursue a refund is the advisor's call.
- Shares feedback with the team. Supplier praise and problems are flagged, so advisors know which hotels and guides to keep recommending.
- Starts the next conversation. Based on the kind of trip they took and when they like to travel, it sends ideas for a next trip at the right time of year and books a call with the advisor when the traveler is interested.
- Keeps corporate travelers engaged. For corporate accounts, it sends the travel manager a summary of feedback and any issues raised on recent trips.
For how that next trip gets built, read about the hidden cost of manual itinerary building.
Where the work is recorded
Everything the Post-Trip Follow-Up Agent does is recorded in EngageSuite360, on the records your agency works from:
- The trip record holds the survey answers, any refund claim with its status and supplier reply, and notes on each supplier.
- The traveler record keeps their feedback, travel style, preferred seasons, ideas for the next trip and the date of the next planned contact.
- The corporate account record holds feedback across that company's trips and any issues raised with the travel manager.
- The inquiry for the next trip links back to the last one, so the advisor starts with everything the traveler said.
The next morning an advisor opens the dashboard and sees who is back home, which surveys came in, which refund claims need a decision and which returning travelers want to talk about their next trip. Nobody relies on memory to call a past client.
What your people do instead
Advisors stop feeling guilty about the follow-up they never get to. Their time goes where it counts:
- Looking after travelers who are about to leave or are on the road right now.
- Calling a returning traveler who wants to plan the next trip, with their feedback already in hand.
- Working with suppliers on problems travelers raised, so the next group does not hit the same issue.
The agent keeps the surveys, claims and nurture moving around those conversations. Traveler satisfaction stays with your people. When the next trip spans several suppliers, see how agencies build itineraries quickly across multiple vendors.
One next step
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