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Taj West End Hotel Case Study

This document provides a case study of the Taj West End hotel in Bangalore, India. [1] It outlines the hotel's competitive strategy and marketing mix. [2] The Taj West End targets domestic and foreign business travelers as well as the elite with its positioning as an "office away from home." [3] It differentiates itself through its natural green environment and latest facilities while maintaining seasonal adjustments to demand.

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Taj West End Hotel Case Study

This document provides a case study of the Taj West End hotel in Bangalore, India. [1] It outlines the hotel's competitive strategy and marketing mix. [2] The Taj West End targets domestic and foreign business travelers as well as the elite with its positioning as an "office away from home." [3] It differentiates itself through its natural green environment and latest facilities while maintaining seasonal adjustments to demand.

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Taj west end hotel case study

In Bangalore there are 5 major players in 5-star hotel category. These are

a. Windsor Manor Hotel, Near Palace Road / Sivananda Circle

b. Oberoi, M G Road

c. Ashok, an ITDC run hotel

d. Le Meridien (earlier it was called Hotel Holiday Inn)

e. Taj West End, Race Course Road – Part of Taj Group of Hotels, 5-star deluxe category hotel in Bangalore.

Competitive Strategy of West End Hotel:

1. Target Customer – domestic and foreign business travelers, the elite, top management.

2. Positioning – office away from office to service the business customer and for non-business travelers, it is a home
away from home.

3. Differentiation – this is through physical ambience. Natural Green Environment gives a relaxed atmosphere to
business travelers.

4. Marketing Mix:

a. Product: The Service Offer has tangible products in it. There are 6 types of rooms. Club rooms, normal rooms,
superior cottages, suites, deluxe rooms & old British Raj ambience rooms.
b. Restaurants – Thai food served in Paradise, Italian food in Island Café. Banquet halls with capacities ranging from
10 to 1000. Hotel has a business center with facilities like Internet, interview center, Fitness center and laundry.
c. Pricing – Differential pricing for different rooms. Hotels have an unofficial cartel for deciding the room tariff.

d. Place – Race Course Road – away from city, less pollution, relatively less traffic congestion.

The USP is 23 acres of beautiful landscape.

e. Promotion: West End is not into heavy promotion. But the Group advertises via magazines, hoardings. Some
amount of event sponsoring too. They rely more on direct marketing sans any channels.

f. Physical ambience: Maintains its natural environment and latest state of the art facilities

g. People – They understand the role played by people in a service organization and market their service offer to their
own employees so that the employees understand the need for maintaining high quality and standards.

h. There are seasonal variations in demand [peak season, off season] : More demand in the beginning of the week as
business travelers tend to go back during weekends.

To meet these variations, Taj West End is:

o Doing tie ups with corporate clients for regular inflow of clientele, attractive discounts are offered.
o Regular sales calls to potential and existing customers.
o Intra-Group tie ups: West end has tie ups with other Taj Group Hotels in Bangalore
o International Tie ups with hotels like Shangri-La in Middle East.
o Benchmarking of its operations against Ritz Scaldon of UK as this is the hotel that has got a Quality Award.
o Training of employees
o Improve quality of service
o Earn Loyalty – Retention of Customers
o Increase revenue and profitability
o Have regular customer feedback
o Data mining (details of customers)

Questions:

1. Analyze why and how West End is different from other hotels. How should the services be changed or developed if Taj
wants to achieve world class status and fight competition?

2. Can capacity and supply be balanced better? Suggest solutions.

3. Do you agree with the statement? Explain the rationale behind your decision.

“Soft aspects of TQM – Behaviors, attitudes, leadership, Customer Focus, Empowerment – all these have better chances of
implementation of TQM in services.

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