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Business Case Study Of Shanhangri-La's Most Popular Hotel Group

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Shangri-La starts their business since 1971, and 40years passed, Shangri-La become world-class luxury hotel group, and also the Asia-Pacific region’s most popular business hotel brand. They are doing an excellent job in the way of Asian culture luxury hotel brand. But the weaknesses are still there, like brand awareness is almost restricted to Asia, and they are limited to focus on business travellers. I think that’s one of the reasons for them to establish a new brand-Kelly. Kerry hotel as the new and additional high-end hotel brand is well developing, now. In Mainland China already have two hotels, and one will open at the end of this year (2016) in Hong Kong.

Kerry hotel starts the first story in shanghai in 2011. If we ask about China’s …show more content…

If we use Shanghai Kerry hotel as an example, Kerry hotel contract with Kerry Properties Limited to build a one-stop experience area. (Both Kerry Properties Limited and Shangri-La are belong to Kerry Group, which is involving with hotel industry, real estate industry, Beverage industry, grain and oil industry, shipping and shipbuilding.) In this area including various well-know shops, attract lots of middle and high-income group; white-collars are work surrounding, and even people from aboard. Kerry center’s establishment is not only brings more profit for Kerry Group, but also give more convenient for Kerry hotel’s customers. Shangri-La proved the advantage on service and brings a totally vibrant, innovative, modern, new environment to all coming customer, to explore different customer base. And until now, I will say Kerry hotel is successfully entering our field of vision. Compare with the Himalayas Center, which is across the way, Kerry Center are much more lively. Himalayas center has similar managing idea, is including a hotel, a gallery, a shopping center, a cinema. Himalayas center is open early than Kerry, but there are fewer customers and fewer stores. So it is use another approach say that Kerry is successfully come and stay at this …show more content…

As the first Kerry hotel, I want to talk about Shanghai Kerry hotel first. It is hard to say that SNIEC make Kerry hotel better, or Kerry hotel brings more people come to this are to join SNIEC. Since SNIEC start to do exhibition just driven around distinctive kind of hotels’ operation. However, the hotels were in short supply in the periphery of exhibition. Until 2011, Kerry hotel and Kerry center’s start let more people stay closer during exhibition and more local people come to here. Kerry hotel become the leading choice to the people participate in the exhibition dates, at the same time pulling out a necessary condition of the success of Kerry hotel –good location. For a business hotel, a suitable location is more important. Ellsworth Milton Statler said “for any hotel, the success of the three most important factors are: location, location, location.” Maybe this speak make some people think too exaggerated, but the fact is the case, a prime location in the market competition that emerged out of the influence and competitiveness, are difficult to compare with those unfortunate geographic hotel. Nowadays, location is not just a part of hotel service product, it also become an important factor in the successful operation of a

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