Messaging channel – North America

The 2025 Hospitality Benchmark Report helps hoteliers assess performance, pinpoint improvements, and set goals. These benchmarks focus on North America’s messaging channel for decreasing staff workload and enhancing the guest experience.

The 2025 Hospitality Benchmark Report helps hoteliers assess performance, pinpoint improvements, and set goals. These benchmarks focus on North America’s messaging channel for decreasing staff workload and enhancing the guest experience.

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Guest messaging: introduction

Leveraging the power of text

The messaging channel represents how hoteliers interact with guests using the method guests are most familiar with – text. Revinate captures guest messaging data via our AI-powered messaging product, Revinate Ivy, in the form of engagement, message categories, response times, and more. Hoteliers can supercharge their own messaging efforts with this data, surprising and delighting guests while reducing workload on frontdesk staff.

Messaging Channel North America - Revinate

The power of direct messaging: Revinate Ivy

Communication is key to relationships

Guests have their phones with them almost at all times, and the vast majority check notifications within five minutes of receiving them. When 78% of US consumers say that text is the fastest way to reach them for purchases, hoteliers must invest in a robust messaging product.

Guests have their phones with them almost at all times, and the vast majority check notifications within five minutes of receiving them. When 78% of US consumers say that text is the fastest way to reach them for purchases, hoteliers must invest in a robust messaging product.

Incoming guest message volume - Revinate
Incoming message volume

Guests sent hotels 1,109 messages each month on average with peaks during the summer.

Revinate Ivy automation rate - Revinate
Automation rate

Hotel staff were able to automate solutions to roughly a third of guests messages normally answered manually.

Guest messaging median resolution time - Revinate
Median resolution time

An AI-powered messaging product resolved guest requests over 1,000% faster than staff.

Once we switched to Revinate Ivy, thanks to the built-in automation, we saw a 50-60% decrease in messages we needed to respond to.

Once we switched to Revinate Ivy, thanks to the built-in automation, we saw a 50-60% decrease in messages we needed to respond to.

Omkar Sawant
Revenue & Reservations Manager
One King West Hotel & Residence

With a 16% guest engagement rate and an impressive opt-out rate of just 0.91%, guests have clearly embraced [text messaging] as an essential communication tool.

Guest messaging engagement and opt out rates - Revinate
Engagement & opt out rates

Nearly a quarter of guests engaged with messages, rivaling many email open rates.

Incoming and outgoing messages - Revinate
Incoming & outgoing messages

Four times more messages were sent to guests than received from guests.

Hotel message strategy - Revinate
Message categories

See where in the guest journey hotels focused their messaging strategy for maximum engagement.

The staff at One King West Hotel and Residence has also seen significant benefits, resolving guest inquiries in an average of just 13 minutes and achieving a 31% automation rate, close to Revinate’s industry benchmark.

One King West Hotel & Residence - Revinate

We love Ivy. It is really easy to set up and our guests love the convenience of having their questions answered without needing to call or visit the front desk.

We love Ivy. It is really easy to set up and our guests love the convenience of having their questions answered without needing to call or visit the front desk.

Troy Reil, Director of Operations
Portola Hotel & Spa

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