Travel and Hospitality Customer Value Hub

Customer Value Hub remembers what your guests love and delivers their preferences before they ask, bringing intuition into every moment of the journey. 

 

This isn’t just another decisioning engine. It’s a hospitality-native intelligence layer that turns guest signals into timely, deeply personal moments across every channel your brand owns.


Working as one intelligent layer alongside Adobe Journey Optimizer, the solution turns guest insights into measurable business impact:
  • 10-20%

    lift in loyalty member re-activation*
  • 10-25%

    growth in customer lifetime value*
  • Up to 20%

    lift in ancillary revenue*
  • 15-25%

    margin recovered per booking shifted to direct*

If you don't own the relationship, you're just inventory

Travel and hospitality markets are shifting fast. Margins are compressing, intermediaries are capturing bookings, and discovery is moving to AI-powered trip planners, leaving brands paying to re-acquire their guests. Today, the majority of online bookings flow through third parties that beat brands to the booking window. 

Customer Value Hub increases the relevance of customer relationships within the digital marketing funnel. It reads traveler signals, like who’s actively planning and the circumstances of their trip, to empower marketers who can deliver value when it matters most. And it all happens through the channels you already own. Static, one-size-fits-all messaging becomes a continuous, personal relationship that grows more valuable with every interaction. 

Value Hub's three intelligent capabilities work together:
    1. UNDERSTANDS
      Assembles guest context from your connected systems into a single, decision-ready view of who each guest is and what they need.
    2. DECIDES
      Chooses the right action for each guest based on booking window, loyalty status, occasion, and capacity, rather than a generic rule.
    3. LEARNS 
      Tracks guest intent, preferences, and outcomes across multiple interactions and informs backend products and analytics platforms.

    Connecting the Data You Already Have

    Customer Value Hub uses AI to break down customer, trip, and hotel data silos and coordinate across teams, generating guest knowledge that wasn’t possible before. It integrates data from key Adobe platforms, including Journey Optimizer, Real-Time CDP, and more.  

    The result: more direct bookings, reactivated loyalty, richer on-property experiences, and the kind of 1:1 personalization guests remember.

     

    Events

    Skift Global Forum

    Meet us where travel leaders gather to see how Adobe and Merkle turn guest data into relationships that compound in value. 

    INDUSTRY EXPERTISE 

    Travel & Hospitality at Merkle 

    We’ve spent decades helping the world’s travel brands turn loyalty, data, and experience into measurable, lasting growth. 

    Adobe Partnership

    As an Adobe Platinum Solution Partner and recognized leader in Adobe Services, we help your Adobe investment realize its full value. 


    *Numbers modeled based on predicted outcomes.

    Adobe & Merkle | Travel and Hospitality Customer Value Hub | Merkle