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Travel & Transportation

Elevate the passenger experience at every touchpoint.

Touchwork brings experience operations to airports, cruise terminals, bus and train operators, connecting real-time passenger feedback and operational audits directly to the appropriate teams who can fix what's wrong. Problems get resolved quicker, before they become issues that could impact a customer or a positive review.

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A traveler waiting in an airport terminal with a suitcase.
New report 09:14
Wait time over 25 minutes · Gate 14, Terminal B
5 responses · 3 min
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Why it's so effective

How we help

Passenger and traveler experience is unforgiving. Whether someone is rushing to a gate, waiting at a cruise terminal platform, or standing in line for a bus or train, passengers notice everything: a dirty restroom, an unstaffed information desk, an unclear announcement. In high-traffic transportation hubs, it's operationally impossible to catch every issue by walking the floor. It has to be built into how the operation runs.

Touchwork gives airport, cruise, and ground transportation operators a live, structured channel to hear directly from guests in real time, routing feedback directly to the appropriate operations team. This is experience operations in practice: feedback doesn't sit in a dashboard waiting to be reviewed, it becomes a task assigned to whoever owns the fix. A complaint about a gate-area restroom reaches facilities before it reaches social media. A slow security line gets flagged to operations while it's still forming. A concession stand falling short of contract standards gets caught on a routine inspection, not a corporate audit two quarters later.

It's equally critical to hold concessionaires, contractors, and vendor partners to the standards in their agreements. Regular, structured operational audits and inspections, whether run by your own staff or through a mystery shopping program, give you an ongoing, documented view of how retail, food service, cleaning, and security vendors are actually performing against what they're contracted to deliver.

Travelers with luggage walking through a busy airport terminal concourse.

The results

A better passenger experience isn't just a satisfaction metric. It's a revenue and reputation driver. Travelers who feel heard, and who see problems resolved quickly, spend more money shopping and dining, rate the terminal higher, and talk about the experience online and to the people around them. Operators get an early-warning system for operational issues, a documented record of vendor compliance, and hard data to bring to concession renewals, contract negotiations, and board reporting, replacing anecdote with evidence.

Built for every point of transit

Airports

Passenger feedback across parking, ticketing, security, retail shops, dining, restrooms, rental car, baggage claim, vending, and other unmanned areas of the terminal, plus routine inspections that hold every janitorial, retail, and food service operator accountable to contract, keeping experiences consistent and operations running smoothly.

Cruise terminals

Real-time feedback across check-in, terminal lounges, boarding queues, and dockside concessions, giving terminal operators visibility into the experience before passengers ever step on board.

Bus terminals

Feedback and inspection tools for waiting areas, ticketing counters, platforms, and restrooms, helping high-volume, high-turnover terminals stay ahead of cleanliness and service issues.

Train terminals

In-the-moment feedback and compliance audits across platforms, concourses, ticketing, and station retail, so rail operators can act on issues in real time rather than after the fact, while also maximizing revenue opportunities.

What is experience operations?

Most feedback tools stop at measurement. They tell you a passenger was unhappy, after the fact, in a dashboard nobody opens until quarter-end. Experience operations works differently: it treats feedback and audit data not as a report to review later, but as a signal that triggers action the moment it happens.

In practice, that means three things happen together instead of in sequence. Feedback from a passenger and findings from an audit or mystery shop flow into one system. That system automatically routes the issue to whoever owns it (facilities, a concessionaire, security, station operations) based on what happened and where. And the loop closes: the fix gets tracked, timestamped, and reported, so leadership sees not just what went wrong, but how fast it was resolved and by whom.

That's what Touchwork is built to do. It's not a survey tool with a workflow bolted on. It's a single system where listening, inspecting, and resolving are one continuous process, so a comment about a gate-area restroom becomes a work order in minutes, not a line item in next month's report.

Solutions

Airports and transportation products

Touchwork's solutions let airport, cruise, and ground transportation operators capture in-the-moment feedback from passengers, monitor how concessions and vendors are performing through operational audits, and turn all of it into insight that drives business outcomes. Every solution delivers real-time results with advanced drill-down reporting.

Our solutions are SOC 2 compliant, ensuring data is handled with the highest standards of security and confidentiality.

The Touchwork XOP platform

XOP is a cloud-based experience operations platform. Touchwork solutions sit on this platform and can be deployed individually or combined into a single, unified system, delivering results in real time with advanced drill-down reporting and analysis. It deploys quickly, requires no on-site IT support, and is optimized for use on mobile devices across terminals of any size.

Abda, our AI-powered Data Analyzer, processes large volumes of feedback and audit data from every terminal, gate, and concession, turning it into clear, actionable insight so operations and commercial teams can make faster, data-driven decisions.

Touchwork is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, so passenger and operational data is protected to enterprise standards from day one.

Touchwork offers stand-alone, subscription-based solutions or bundles them into packages built around your operation's needs, with an enterprise licensing model that gives unlimited access across the full platform.

Every XOP solution is designed to work together, from a single terminal to an entire transportation network. More about our XOP platform →

Areas of application

  • In-the-moment passenger and guest feedback
  • Regular inspections to ensure clean and safe spaces as well as vendor compliance
  • In-depth monitoring using staff-led mystery shoppers
  • Problem reporting for restrooms, vending, and other high-traffic hot spots
  • Health, safety, and other compliance audits
  • Employee feedback and surveys
  • Real-time service recovery across gates, platforms, and boarding areas
"Touchwork designed a tailored audit system that monitors our performance in meeting the business's service standards requirements. We are delighted with the highly effective system they have introduced in helping to maintain good service standards for our customers."
Robbie Barrigan, Cleaning Quality and Compliance Manager, Asset Soft Services, Stansted Airport Limited

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