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What Cruise Lines Can Learn From Luxury Hotel Guests

Jim Coyle on March 24, 2011

Apparently, wealthy consumers, particularly Americans, are essentially an untapped market for cruise lines, according to a global wealth study reported on by Travel Weekly.  With the global penetration of upper-income Read More

Ten Ways to Create Quality Guest Experience Audits for Your Spa

Jim Coyle on March 2, 2011

How can busy spa operators take their guest experience, so integral a part of their businesses, to the next level?
Creating a guest experience audit, in which key standards are established, Read More

10 Ways to Create a Stellar Restaurant Guest Experience Audit

Jim Coyle on February 21, 2011

How can a restaurant manager think outside the box when they’re actually in that box 16 hours a day, seven days a week? Sometimes, the only way to do Read More

Alluring Moves: Royal Caribbean Focuses On Partners And Guests

Jim Coyle on December 8, 2010

Coyle began providing cruise mystery shopping services to Royal Caribbean, and other cruise lines, several years ago.  Since that time, our team of cruise quality consultants has been aboard the inaugural Read More

The Words Matter in “Word of Mouth”

Jim Coyle on November 8, 2010

I think every restaurant consulting firm would agree that you get new customers and keep great ones via word of mouth.  What can be argued, ad infinitum, is how to Read More

Cruising’s Anticipated, and Unexpected, Moments

Jim Coyle on November 4, 2010

One of the greatest things about travel is the anticipation.  And while nothing beats lounging on the beach in Antigua, imagining it and talking about it in the weeks and Read More

What Do Great Sales and The First Day of School Have in Common?

Jim Coyle on July 23, 2010

In what can be described as turnabout being fair play, we fully adopted the client role when we went looking for a web marketing agency for our own company.  Instead Read More

The Value of Cruising

Jim Coyle on July 21, 2010

This article in Travel Weekly is an excellent harbinger for the economy.  Cruise Lines have a long window of booking time, and this shows that demand for the cruise vacation Read More

Leadership is Always on the Restaurant Menu

Jim Coyle on June 15, 2010

When we look at the data from our restaurant mystery shopping reports and restaurant market research, it shows that both poor and great guest experiences alike are heavily dependent upon Read More

Eat & Sleeponomics

Jim Coyle on May 18, 2010

NYC & Co, as reported in this Bloomberg Businessweek article, indicated that tourist visits for Q1-2010 in NYC were up 11% over the same period in 2009, meaning 1.3 million Read More

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