3. Hotel Market. Ukraine
Tourists per year: >10 mln
Number of hotels:
thousands – hotels
>10 thousands – mini-hotels and other vacation spots
(private sector)
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Market volume: 11,1B UAH (1,35B USD) per year
4. Needs and Challenges
Tourists need to find and book vacation spots
Challenges:
Lack
of adequate representation of the vacation spots in the
Internet (no website, no presence in search results)
Lack of easy to use vacation spots full catalogue
Hotels are in need of occupancy
Challenge:
Lack
of expertise and budgets for Internet promotion
6. Why room-room Would Be Better?
The largest database of vacation spots in Ukraine
(8000+)
Vacation spots unique categorization on types of
accomodation (hotels, mini-hotels, отели, миниотели, sanatoria, camps for children, private sector)
Customer focus
Proactive hotel management team
7. Business Model
First Stage:
Hotel booking fee
Premium hotel listing
Partnership fee for tickets booking
E-mail marketing. Hotels database monetization
Second Stage:
Paid listing (private sector)
Media advertising
Hotels’ deal unit
E-mail marketing. Best deals for users
9. Promotion
SEO
Context Advertising, Context Advertising in Social Media
Customer retention
Repeated cheap visits
SMM
Direct targeted visits with a high percentage of conversion
E-mail Mailings
Growth of organic cheap traffic
Quality content
Brand image development
Targeted site visits
Promotions & Campaigns
Brand interest development
Targeted site visits
Reaching the target audience with nonstandard mechanics
10. Project development plan
First Stage. Market Entry
Web-site redesign to increase targeted visits
Hotel database growth
Sothern Ukraine private sector involvement
Russia and Belarus markets targeting
Second Stage. Market Development
Online hotel booking system development and
implementation
11. Team
CEO: Yuriy Puzanov(experience: Director of foreign
company in Ukraine)
Marketing: Maksym Paraska (experience : digital-manager
at MTS Ukraine, head of digital-department at Kozyrnaya
Karta) + marketing specialist
Sales and Customer Management: Natalia Nosova
(Experiece: Mapia.ua, Sales Department Manager at
Pokupon) + 3 sales specialists
Development: Artem Dyachenko (experience: CIO at BRT,
engineer at Liga.net) + 2 developers
12. Why we need partners?
Funding
Expertise
Competences
13. Funding
Project expenses before the breakeven (till
08.2014) 365 000$:
Development
55 000$
Marketing 25 000$
Promotion 165 000$
Sales 90 000$
Administrative expenses 30 000$
Expected revenue during this period: 165 000$
Investments requirements: 200 000$
Project share: 10%