The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Chain Is Renowned for Its Service and Individual

Multiple Choice

The Ritz-Carlton hotel chain is renowned for its service and individual treatment of its customers.All service staff and employees have note pads and are taught to record every little piece of information they learn about a customer.If a business traveller ordered soft pillows,wanted only martinis in his mini bar,and needed access to a fax machine,he would find all of these amenities in his room when he arrived.The Ritz-Carlton is basing its one-to-one marketing on which of the following trends?

A) the growing number of customers who do not have time to spend shopping
B) the fact that consumers do not want to be treated like the masses
C) data-mining capabilities
D) the use of reward systems to increase brand loyalty