Further, the larger United Arab Emirates has over 8 million people, making it favourable for business,
Premier Inn is a famous British hotel brand with over 700 facilities worldwide. Being founded by Whitbread in the year 1987, the company is the result of a merge between Premier Lodge and Travel Inn. Premier Inn hotels operate under the strategic partnership between the leading international companies and Britain’s leading hospitality firm Whitbread PLC. This allows enhancing the popularity of the Premier Inn brand all over the world.
SMART marketing objectives for a hospitality and tourism business: From the brief meeting, Mr Ramesh summarized the main objectives of the Village Hotel Bugis will coincide with the Group’s mission statement. (i) To develop an enterprise and operate the businesses by serving with grace and love, integrity and honesty (ii) To inspire better lives to all stakeholders using the core values of BUILD (iii) To market VHB is a destination of pleasure and business with its unique characteristics of its locality. 2. Marketing plan development for a hospitality organization: Marketinng audit ( PEST ): PEST analysis is a simple widely used tool that helps to analyze the Political, Economic, Social- cultural, Technological changes in the business environment. Let’s see how The Village Hotel uses PEST analysis to their business.
Hilton is an American hotel chain founded by Conrad Hilton in the early twentieth century. Hilton remains the second largest hotel group with 4,278 establishments and 700,000 rooms in 85 countries. The Hilton Worldwide is a leader in the hospitality industry and currently has more than 130,000 employees. While most hotel establishments today use management systems, they are almost all equipped with basic functionality compared to what exists in other sectors. Today, there are new tools expected to become real levers of competitiveness of hotel establishments.
Product: The main product in the menu of a Subway restaurant is the submarine sandwich. Besides this, the menu includes baked goods like muffins, doughnuts and cookies, salads and wraps. There are 6-8 different sauces, 6 bread types and different vegetarian and non - vegetarian options to choose from to make your own SUB sandwich. Some of the items in the menu are variable according to the place and markets but still the signature varieties in the global menu.
The elements cannot be controlled, their effects can be diminished with careful preparation and anticipation (Lewis, 2017). These external dynamics cannot be underestimated, overlooked, or avoided as laws, policy, and regulations change, the economy fluctuates and disposable income varies, and societal views continue to evolve around the globe. These external factors can be mitigated to limit their impact within an organization to some degree by comprehensive strategic forecasting and flexibility. Therefore, let’s take a closer look at some of the political factors impacting the hospitality industry.
Introduction: Marriott International Inc. - Marriott International, Inc. is one of the top leading hospitality company in the world. J. Willard and Alice Marriott were the founder of the company. From past 80 years, it has always been looked under the guidance of Marriott family. The headquarter of the company is situated in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. The company revenue for fiscal year 2013 was estimated to be $13 billion dollars.
Marriott describes its business model, brands, senior leaders, and deeply-ingrained service culture as having firmly established Marriott as a leading performer (2013, para 1-2). Another source describes Marriott International as a company that takes pride in the fact that they have always taken care of their customers and employees above all else, living up to their slogan of “People First” (Addonizio, Mathos, Khalil, & Ortiz, F., 2012, para 1). Essentially, Marriott has gone to great lengths to focus their business efforts and strategy on providing the best working environment and hotel stay for employees and customers alike.
SWOT Analysis SWOT analysis is a tool that helps in assessing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in any commercial business. An individual or firm look at the strengths and weaknesses which are in relation to the internal operations of the business and can be controlled by the firm, whereas the opportunities and threats are facets which are exterior to the business and not controlled by them (Kerzner, 2015). A detailed SWOT analysis of our new product, The World of Monopoly, introduced by the organization is as follows: Strengths • The World of Monopoly theme park and resort will be strategically located on Sheikh Zayed Road just after the ever-popular Ibn Battuta Mall, the theme park will also become the
Hospitality law commonly relate to travel, food service and lodging industries. Having sufficient knowledge of laws in hospitality industry is very important for employees, managers, owners and other staff members so the breaking of law can be avoided. Accurate knowledge should be conveying to one another because negative publicity, lawsuits or fines could happen if one fails to follow state and federal laws. (Thompson, nd)
Jumeirah Group is a series of luxurious hotels, resorts, spas, restaurants and waterways based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The organization was founded in 1997 with an aim of achieving world class and becoming a successful leading industry. Jumeirah Group joined Dubai Holdings in 2004 becoming a member of the leading group of businesses and projects. To extend this far and in order to maintain goals, Jumeirah Group had to formulate and implement certain business strategies Jumeirah Group was originated with a goal of being a hospitality industry leader in establishing luxurious hotels, resorts and spa’s. It established luxurious hotels all around the world such as Burj Al Arab the world most luxurious hotel and which is considered a
Intercontinental Hotels is using the market differentiation strategy in segmenting its market into appropriate market divisions based on characteristics of the varying needs and characteristics of the target markets. The company has more than 3500 hotels in over 100 countries with around 535000 guest rooms. It has established a substantial customer base with over 120million customers whose preferences vary based on price and quality expectations. The Intercontinental group is made up of many brands such as the Intercontinental Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Garden Court, Crown Plaza Hotels & Resorts, SunSpree, Holiday Inn, Staybridge Suites, Holiday Inn Family Suites Resort, Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn Select, Holiday Inn, and Candlewood
Challenge of modernization and globalization in the UAE society Introduction The UAE is renowned for its rich cultural heritage heavily manipulated by Arab and Islamic traditions. UNESCO has particularly acknowledged the Emirate of Sharjah as a fascinating emirate that has single handedly taken measures in protecting the rich cultural heritage of the Arabs. A classic example is anchoring the Dubai Shopping Festival in cultural values that are local and traditional. It should be noted that the primary aim of the festival is to attract tourists from all over the world.
The Five Competitive Forces of Industry will influence prices, costs and investment (Porter, 1980). The potential retaining of customers, profitability of a holiday inn can be determined by being aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the hotel industry. (Figure 2.2: Porter’s Five Forces Model (Source: Adapted after Porter,2008) Porter’s 5 model helps in success of Holiday inn between suppliers and buyers. Giving customers the service they are looking for, acquire customers, retain customers and looking externally how the competitors are doing is very important. To ignore the power of customer relationship is not an option.
Q1.a When talking about environment in general, we think of the surrounding things that have an ability to affect. Same is applied with marketing environment. Marketing environment is the collection of all of the surrounding actors and forces that have the power to affect the company 's ability to do its job in having good relationship with target customers and satisfying their needs (Kotler, Armstong, Tolba, Habib, (2011). Marketing environment consists of internal and external factors that have direct affect on the marketing program. Internal factors (or the microenvironment) are the ones closed to the company, for instance, the company, it 's suppliers, the marketing intermediaries, competitors, public and customers.