Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Re-branding The Glencarn Hotel Project

'The Glencarn Hotel, good food in comfortable surroundings with a friendly atmosphere'

My group undertook the task of developing a re-branding plan for The Glencarn Hotel for an assignment for the college course we are enrolled in. The hotel itself is quite successful as it has been established twenty five years and is still going quite well. The hotel’s marketing communications however are not well integrated and their on-line presence is very minimal. We decided on redesigning the website and all print media so that they would portray a “one voice, one look”. As the hotel is successful we recognised that the management are currently targeting the correct markets for it. We did also recognise that they are not marketing to these markets very effectively. We came up with strategies to better target the chosen markets such as leaflet drops to promote the leisure centre, search engine optimisation to increase leisure stays, developing links with golf clubs to promote golf breaks in Castleblayney which would increase revenue for the hotel as it is the only one in the town and also to redesign the wedding brochures to impress potential wedding customers. These were only but a few of our recommendations and it goes without saying that they would all portray the same message in relation to the hotel brand. We also proposed a new symbol and slogan to further strengthen the hotel brand.
This was an interesting and most beneficial project that gave us a real opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills we have learned at Dundalk Institute of Technology to what could be a task we will encounter in industry when we leave.

Benji

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