1. HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY:
Are You Ready for the 2012, London?
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2. Olympics 2012, London
London Olympics is all set to revolutionize the UK industries for years to come. And the hospitality
industry can expect to discover new markets and source of revenues.
London 2012 symbolizes a fantastic opportunity for the hospitality industry to show the visitors that
hospitality industry in UK is one of the best. With over 9 million visitors expected, there are big
commercial laurels for those companies that are gearing up for the greatest show on the planet.
Quick 2012 Olympics Facts
• Number of foreign visitors: 350,000 per day
• F&B potential: 18 million meals
• Value of tourism benefit: an additional £2.1 billion
• Predicted Consumer Spending: £123 million for the
UK’s hotel industry
• Total workforce needed: 200,000
• 205 Nations will be competing at the London 2012
Games
• 95% businesses will assess impact of the Olympic
and Paralympic Games
• 55% of companies believe their preparations are on
track
• Unavailability of staff is now the biggest concern
for businesses
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3. Opportunities with Olympics 2012, London
London 2012 is going to bring tremendous opportunities for your hotel business to grow and
expand. There would be a drastic rise in the potential customer base, resulting into boosted domestic
demands across the country.
The snapshot survey focused on operators in and around London reveal a overall positive picture:
60% of respondents felt that their organisations are prepared to capitalise on the 2012 Games – and a
third of the industry expects to experience benefits into the medium-term after the Olympic period.
However, it was also revealed that strategic planning for
the Olympic Games is far from complete across the
industry, with only 40% claiming to have a robust
strategy or plan in place to effectively capitalise on the
period of high demand.
20% feel that they need to concentrate more closely on
developing their current revenue management strategy
– a key factor in optimising revenue during London
2012.
Overall, the snapshot survey suggests that the UK hospitality industry is in a good position to
capitalise on the expected peak in demand during the 2012 Olympic Games – although certain
resources have yet to be put in place and some key investments still need to be made.
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4. Hospitality Industry need to analyze both the before-and-after impact of visitors arranging their
holidays around the event itself. The impact of this whole event will be intensive in terms of
occupancy and capability to serve such a large chunk of global visitors. Entire UK hospitality
industry recognizes that it will have to step up to the plate and offer a first-class welcome to what
could possibly be completely new inbound markets.
(RevPAR*: Revenue Per Available Room)
Technology will be playing a vital role in the London 2012 Games than ever before, be it on an
operational, business or communication level. Digital channels such as the web and mobile phones
will be the core way for everyone to access, share and interact with the London 2012 Games
experience.
Information Technology could provide comprehensive solutions to your business that connects,
enables, informs and engages with your customer base throughout the organization or across your
stakeholder community and members of the general public.
Many IT companies are experts in delivering real commercial and environmental benefits to your
business, through modern technology.
To fully grasp this opportunity, you need to undertake all the required preparations to combat the
challenges and give the competitive edge to your business.
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5. Increase Your Web Presence and Hit Your Target Group
How much profit you are going to make in this season is directly proportional to the number of
customers who know you exist in this market. Many business websites fail to reach their target
customers, bring visitors to their sites, generate leads and/or sales because they are invisible to
consumers. Increasing your online presence will improve your business. These simple tips will help
maximize your effectiveness in the virtual world. So an obvious thing to do is to create a list of ways
to improve and promote a Web site and online presence.
It is estimated that the Internet is growing at a functional rate of 7 million web pages per day. If a
website is not optimized properly search engines will ignore large sections of a website, making it
impossible for customers to find it.
7 Most Effective Steps To Increase Your Web Presence
1. Complete Website Analysis
2. Keyword Research & Analysis
3. User Interface Optimization
4. Redesigning Site Architecture
5. Active Social Media Participation
6. Monitoring the Performance
7. Round-the-clock Maintenance
Identify your website problems before your visitors do so. Go through complete search engine
optimization guideline checks to ensure your site is ready for the major search engines.
Analyze current keywords performance, uncover competitors' keywords and new potential
keywords to build the web site around. Do analyze the basic usability of your web site from a visitor
and search engine robot point of view, including the analysis of incoming links, internal links and
competition.
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6. Making your website user friendly and having proper site navigation is the key to impress your
website visitors with ease. User interface optimization gives emphasis to the website elements and
flows for users to operate with. Websites after user interface optimization can make users get what
they want in minimal operations.
A more strategical approach is Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the art and science of positioning
a website keyword at the top of search engine results pages, through a set of ethical practices, proven
techniques, research and analysis. SEO is a long-term strategy and is the next step in the
development of your website.
Give your company a face on popular social networking sites. It is necessary for you to participate
actively in online channels in order to increase your online presence and gain your visitors. Take
some time out to compose articles, Press Releases, Blogs and write up reviews for your company on
major review networks. For example, if you run a restaurant there are several sites that review
popular restaurants in major cities across the UK that you can take advantage of.
All these steps allow you to spread the word about your online business and it enables your visitors
to engage with you and communicate with you directly. By increasing your web presence to all
media channels, you can raise your vistors fall to your website more than ever before.
Mobile Technology: Helping you to compete in London 2012
Devising a mobile strategy to improve the event participants and visitors experience would be an
idealistic approach for hospitality sector. The planning stage will include monitoring consumer
trends around mobile usage to define which services would serve the customer the best to gain an
amazing Olympic experience.
To capture maximum consumer activity in and around the event sites, introduction of mobile
services to the audience becomes a winning strategy. Mobile services that may be introduced include
live updates of sporting events and organizing polls on the public's favorite athletes, as well as the
roll-out of near-field communication-enabled terminals, service providers to allow online payments,
bookings, ordering etc.
The mobile device presents a composition of applications which takes the hotel experience beyond
the physical object. The user friendly and intuitive applications revolutionize the availability of
information and increase the utility of the hotel experience. This improves customer satisfaction,
lowers operating costs, and increases revenues.
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7. The innovative mobile applications intent to bring revolution to the payment experience, enabling
faster, safer and more convenient payments via mobile phones in London and globally.
Using mobile solutions, hotels can easily integrate their existing infrastructure into mobile guest
services to enhance the visitors experience. The visitors can access the hotel services from their
existing smart-phones.
Mobile Apps Functionality for Hotels
Hotels can offer their customers the convenience and ease of being connected, including:
• Hotel Search
• Mobile Reservations
• Mobile Check-In
• Mobile room service
• Sign-in Access to Loyalty Account and Profile
• Mobile GPS and location-based services
• Mobile Special Offers and Promotions
• One-Touch Convenience from Your Mobile Desktop Icon
Mobile Travel Apps
The emergence of mobile technology and the advancement of mobile
enabled services is set to change the way people travel. Travel industry is
required to be better understood and be better equipped to the strategic
business and gauge the technical implications of changes and trends within
the industry, mobile is the “next wave for travel-related services”.
Mobile travel apps deliver travel related products including package
holidays, DP, flights, accommodation, resort content, city attraction tickets,
resort taxis and other travel extras through innovative mobile app platform.
These apps help travel agencies to bring a delightful customer experience
and helps to generate extra revenues for your business.
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8. Travel apps match specific travel needs
Few most popular apps, matching traveler needs:
• Mapping: Google Maps, native GPS, TomTom, Ovi Maps, OffMaps
• Language and translation: Google Translate, iTranslate, WordLens, Navita, Jibbigo
• General search and location-based apps: Google app (with audio and visual search), Yelp,
Foursquare, AroundMe
• Communication: Facebook, Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Trip Journal
• Entertainment: Kindle, YouTube, Pandora, various games
• Currency and unit conversion: Currency Converter, XE Currency, Convert, Oanada
• Weather: Weather (iPhone), Weather Channel, Weatherbug, Weddar
• Travel bookings and itinerary help: TripAdvisor, TripIt, Kayak, HostelWorld, Tripcase,
TripDeck
Technology enables travel agents to access broad and deep supplier information and allows them to
further promote their business. Mobile Apps helps travel industry to offer utmost convenience to the
visitors; from mobile version of travel sites to road maps; from traveling tips to flight notifications,
and variety of other services to choose from!
The mobile phone is as pervasive for consumers as their wallet, so it is logical that the mobile phone
and hospitality industry should come together to realize this next stage in mobile evolution.
Innovative mobile applications enables hospitality Industry to offer the tourist visitors, most
enjoyable and convenient traveling time they have ever experienced.
Agile mobile technology allows their customers to organize hotel reservations, car rental info, train,
flight details, meetings, restaurant reservations, activities and get easy access to check-in times,
confirmation numbers, gate info, baggage claim, notes, integrated airline contact info and all the
other details they need. It creates efficiency as well as opportunities to up sell in ways that delight
and encourage repeat, return customers.
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9. Mobile Apps Benefits for Hospitality Industry
• Increase revenues with higher bookings
• Up sell visiting guests on events and hotel amenities
• Delight your guests with exceeded expectations
• Extend your brand into a new mobile marketing channel
• Use the app as a sales tool and get higher ROI
• Control your own content and access real-time communication
• Provide added service and achieve marketplace differentiation
• Increase Guest Loyalty and Improve Brand Recognition
Summary:
To maximize customer lifetime value, hospitality industry needs an integrated understanding of a
customer across the channels i.e. in-store, online and mobile. Social commerce is an emerging area of
focus for service providers.
Promote your businesses with cosmopolitan web presence and advanced mobile apps. Leverage
these strategies to optimize your website, achieve maximum return on your social investment and
delight your customers with extended service offerings, send personalize special offers based on past
purchase history and give away memorable pleasant experiences.
Start Your Business Plan Today!! Fortunately, there is still time to prepare:
• Understand the risks and opportunities
• Review your plans
• Take specialist's help, where ever required
• Test your plans
• Enjoy London 2012 & harness the opportunity
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10. How Clarion Technologies could help you?
Clarion Technologies has reorganized its business units to envision changes in the global IT Industry
and distinguish itself from competitors. At Clarion, we run our business by motivating and inspiring
ourselves with every resolution to customer's problem that brings satisfaction for them. We believe
our 3 core business units offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are:
vEmployee:
vEmployee is a leading web development solution provider based out of India and provides the
clients with a virtual employee. These, well rounded professionals, provide a powerful combination
of programming expertise coupled with advanced skills in project management, usability and self-
testing. vEmployee resource is a rare blend of programming skills and project management
capabilities.
Clarion Mobile:
Clarion Mobile is a leading mobile application development company offering full-spectrum, end-to
end services across diverse verticals such as business, utilities, entertainment and gaming amongst
various others. We offer custom mobile application development services based on various mobile
operating platforms and have proven expertise in customized apps development for iPhone, iPad ,
Android, BlackBerry and Mobile compatible websites.
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Our SEO Specialists will help you with SEO factors such as title, HTML Tags, Keyword Frequency,
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11. About Clarion Technologies:
Clarion Technologies is a leading technology and outsourcing solution provider based out of India.
Clarion partners with its clients with a single-point agenda - to transform their business challenges
into growth opportunities! Clarion has mobilized the right people, skills, technology, and processes
to help clients strengthen their competitive advantage.
With services spanning the technology value chain, Clarion is a one stop shop for enterprise wide IT
needs. Our singular focus on ‘client satisfaction’ cements our relationship with our clients. As a
matter of fact more than 90% of our customer base has repeatedly partnered with Clarion to
continuously build technical solutions for almost a decade.
For more information on partnering with Clarion Technologies, contact us at
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