Kimberly Berry Appointed as Director of Digital Business Development for Bella, The Virtual Hotel Agent, Travel Outlook’s New AI Powered Service

Travel Outlook Premium Hotel Call Center | April 06, 2022

Santa Fe, New Mexico (April 2022): Travel Outlook Premium Hotel Call Center® today announced that Kimberly Berry has been promoted to Director of Digital Business Development at Travel Outlook, overseeing sales and implementation of Bella™, The Virtual Hotel Agent™.

Kimberly Berry joined Travel Outlook in 2020 from Hilton Hotels, where she worked as General Manager for three years. Kimberly Berry brings her experience in sales and guest relations in the hospitality industry to Travel Outlook to further improve Bella™ and its practical customer service applications for the hospitality industry.

In addition, while working in Hyatt locations throughout the United States, Kimberly won Hyatt’s Director of Sales of the Year award.  Her broad range of knowledge in every aspect of hotel operations has been a tremendous asset for Travel Outlook, and positions her perfectly to see the myriad benefits Bella can offer for hotels.

Bella can help hotels immediately address staffing issues and reduce fixed labor expense.  Personalized in a human voice the hotel chooses, Bella can answer most of the calls now being handled by the front desk. Bella can route calls and send follow-up texts, but her true value lies in her ability to answer the frequently asked questions (FAQ’s) unique to each hotel.  Studies have shown that this can be up to 60% of a front desk’s call volume, and in initial implementations, Bella has offered sterling performance. ­­­

Kimberly says, “As a former hotel General Manager, I knew how difficult it was to have guests at the front desk, checking in or out, while you work to provide the best possible customer service while also trying to take care of guests on the phone.”

Kimberly goes on to say “Bella’s ability to assist hotel guests on the phone by answering FAQ’s is groundbreaking. This way, guests don’t become frustrated with long wait times, or simply hang up while staff are assisting guests at the front desk.  This reduces labor costs associated with staffing the front desk, and reduces the risk of missing an important reservations call.”

Bella can also replace traditional, mechanical IVR answer points for the hotel.  Rather than hearing, “press one for reservations”, the caller hears, in a pleasant voice, “thank you for calling our hotel.  How can I help?” Bella can answer many of the questions asked without any involvement from hotel staff, always offering immediate transfer-to-human option.

John Smallwood, President of Travel Outlook says, “Travel Outlook has decades of experience operating and improving voice channel communications for hospitality-based business around the world, setting the industry standard for effective and profitable voice channel communication. Now we’re raising the bar again, with the introduction of Bella. Bella’s ability to help to control fixed labor costs and address the challenges hoteliers are experiencing in hiring customer service staff have been apparent to our clients immediately. We’re excited to have Kimberly lead the way in showcasing this groundbreaking product to current and future clients.”

About Bella™, The Virtual Hotel Agent™: Bella is an AI powered virtual call center agent that represents the next generation of voice bots designed specifically for the Hospitality industry. Bella has been programmed using a breakthrough approach to voice bots, a system built from human conversations. Using social media, chat forums, and movie dialogue, Bella learns from billions of casual human conversations to understand human inflections and multi-turn queries.  This revolutionary approach means Bella understands callers no matter what they say, when they say it, or how they speak. Bella can answer FAQs specific to your property, understand multiple languages, route calls, send follow up texts, and more.