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How Your Travel Company Can Use a CRM

If you run any kind of service for travelers, your customer relationships and insights on their needs are your lifeblood. This is where CRM software can help. Customer relationship management involves useful tactics and strategies to not just maintain but strengthen the bond that companies share with their customers. Travel startups are using CRM programs with advanced functions that allow them to stay in contact with their customers all the time. At the same time, the CRM tools help the companies store a bunch of information related to their customers in one place. With access to a huge database like this, you can learn a lot about your customers in general. This makes providing support quick and convenient. By analyzing customers' behavior and your past conversations with them, you can make better plans to deal with a particular customer, and analysis of the complete customer database will give you valuable insights about your customers overall. Basically, CRM helps you get closer to your customer.

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We develop technology solutions that simplify the planning and purchasing of train travel. Our mission is to make traveling by train a top-of-mind choice for travelers around the world. To achieve this mission we've created a compelling purchase experience that connects global train operating companies together. Our team's experience provides unique insight into industry needs and marketplace challenges. Our commitment to continuous innovation enables railways, agencies, wholesalers and websites to sell effectively, distribute efficiently and connect easily with customers. Founded in 2000 and privately owned, Wandrian is headquartered in the Newton, MA with offices in the U.K. and Australia.

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