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Establishing strong and meaningful interactions with guests is the foundation of brand loyalty. If guests don’t feel emotionally connected to your venue, they might choose to stay somewhere else! On the other hand, if you build strong interactions with your guests they’re likely to come back and positively impact your brand reputation.

In this online course, Sales Manager Beatrice Gallo takes you through the fundamentals practices of interacting with guests. From understanding how to assess your guests’ needs to learning various techniques that will help you remember your guests’ names, you will discover how your interaction with your guests impacts their experience and how you can make their stay a memorable one.

What you will learn in the Interacting with guests course

  • The meaning of establishing rapport with guests
  • How to identify the positive outcomes of establishing rapport with guests when interacting
  • How to assess your guests’ needs
  • Why remembering your guests’ names is important
  • Various techniques to help you remember guests’ names for interaction
  • How smiling can help you interact with guests
  • The purpose of non-verbal communication and how to demonstrate powerful body language to positively interact with guests
  • How to interact with guests through conversation
  • Tips to improve the conversation
  • Tips to avoid when interacting with guests
  • What active listening is and techniques to improve it when interacting with guests
  • Various questioning techniques
  • Why learning how to say no is important
  • How to manage and solve problems when interacting with guests
  • How to identify opportunities to grow cultural knowledge
  • How to proactively be aware of internal products and services

Who the Interacting with guests course is for

This online course is ideal for hotel employees as well as any workers in the hospitality industry interacting with guests.

Meet your instructor

Beatrice Gallo
Renowned for her hands-on experience in the hospitality industry, Beatrice has traveled to more than 40 countries, and now works for one of the most prestigious hotels in the world, Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park as the sales manager.
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All Typsy courses are endorsed by the Institute of Hospitality

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What our members are saying

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"Been loving Typsy so far! It was honestly like love at first sight, with the plethora of informative courses at my fingertips in such high quality and certified instructors. I especially love how crisp and easy to follow these courses are, whether you're a novice or an expert... Highly recommend Typsy to everyone who's a part of the hospitality industry."

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"It assisted in sharpening and updating my current skills."

"I have been using the Typsy online training platform since April 2020 and have found it to be very informative, simple, and it provides hands-on, practical skills that I have been able to immediately implement at my accommodation facility. It also assisted in sharpening and updating my current skills to enhance my guests' experiences in the future."

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