Maarit Karppinen STRATEGIC MARKETING PLAN FOR A HOTEL Hotel and Restaurant Business 2011 2 VAASA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Degree Programme of Hospitality Management ABSTRACT Author Title Year Language Pages Name of Supervisor Maarit Karppinen Strategic Marketing Plan for a Hotel 2011 English 59 + 2 Appendices Peter Smeds The aim of this thesis was to form a strategic marketing plan for Hotel X‚ a small privately owned hotel in Helsinki. The theoretical part of this thesis
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Strategy Strategic marketing plays a significant role in today’s competitive environment. Strategic marketing can help to distinguish the company from its competitors. Proper planning and implementation of strategy can provide advantage over other companies. According to Johnson & Whittington (2008)‚ strategy is a long term planning of the company‚ think of the near of distant future where the company wants to be and what it wants to achieve. Its direction and scope helps exploit companies’ available
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Strategic marketing simulation reflection I was so struggling with making strategies about how to increase the profit margin. It was challenging because it could not be solved by simply offering more discounts to increase the unit sales‚ or by increasing the motor’s price to receive high revenues. Besides those factors‚ the change of profit margin also involved the spending on features and the strength of sales force. Any one of them changed could lead to a significant difference in the change
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1.0 Introduction 2.0 How Reggae Reggae sauce attempt’s to attract and retain customers The consumer decision making process Increasing Motivation and Involvement Appealing to values and attitudes 3.0 Reggae Reggae sauce marketing mix Product Price Place Promotion 4.0 Reggae Reggae sauce compared to Nando’s Peri-Peri 5.0 Conclusion 6.0 References 1.0 Introduction This report will show how Reggae Reggae sauce (RRS) attracts and retains customers through the consumer decision making
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Chapter 1 Customer-Driven Strategic Marketing Lecture Outline I. Defining Marketing We define marketing as the process of creating‚ distributing‚ promoting‚ and pricing goods‚ services‚ and ideas to facilitate satisfying exchange relationships with customers and to develop and maintain favorable relationships with stakeholders in a dynamic environment. [ A ]. Marketing Focuses on Customers [ 1 ]. As the purchasers of the products that organizations develop‚ promote‚ distribute‚ and price
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expected to have a taste of Beach House barbecue and the various street food near the University Shopping Center. Going out for dinner was especially tiresome. Feeling slightly embarrassed‚ I would order a dish sans the meat‚ the seafood‚ the oyster sauce‚ the patis‚ etc. Waiters and friends would look at me in a strange way as if to ask “Anong lasa non?” What’s worse is that people assume that a fresh salad is the only vegetarian dish‚ leaving me hungry all night long. It was the year 2000 when a major
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at the right time[1]. The marketing function is defined as the function is the business that identifies customer wants and satisfies them in the manner that provides them maximum returns. All over the world‚ marketing is used as a tool to develop new markets‚ to create the need for the product and these efforts translate into increased sales for the organization (Peter‚ 2007). Traditionally‚ a company has to go through five stages to become a global company. Domestic marketing introduces the product
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market offering‚ managing and delivering marketing programs are all a part of putting together a strategic marketing plan. The marketing plan must adapt to the new economy that builds customer satisfaction and value by successfully targeting the right consumers and retaining them for repeat purchases while exploring and securing new ones. The plan focuses on the branding strategies‚ buying behavior of consumers‚ marketing mix programs as well as to meet its marketing objectives bearing in mind that the
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I am addressing the strategic importance of distribution channels in marketing by exploring how these channels help businesses meet their marketing and sales objectives. A marketing channel is defined as the means by which the physical flow of goods and services are distributed to consumers and users. A marketing channel is critical to large and small businesses because they use these distribution channels to meet their marketing and business objectives by providing and delivering products and/or
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consider when deciding between different steaks. It is difficult to find a steak that offers a low cost while still being tender and flavorful. These factors also come into play when comparing two popular cuts—ribeye steaks and sirloin steaks. In this post‚ we will see how these two cuts rank against each other and how each of them can be better than the other in certain situations. How are ribeye steaks different from sirloin steaks? Ribeye steaks are fatty‚ which can be a good thing since
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