Promotional and social media strategy for budget hotel: the case at Maxim Hotel, Kota Kinabalu / Siti Hajar Khazali and Rozilydia Jaafar

Tourism is one of the important income-generating sectors in Sabah and contributes to its high economic growth. The objective of this study is to analyze the current business situation of Maxim Hotel, to recommend appropriate promotional strategies (social media marketing) and to recommend new and a...

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Main Authors: Khazali, Siti Hajar, Jaafar, Rozilydia
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/107023/1/107023.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.1070232024-12-11T03:13:19Z Promotional and social media strategy for budget hotel: the case at Maxim Hotel, Kota Kinabalu / Siti Hajar Khazali and Rozilydia Jaafar 2017 Khazali, Siti Hajar Jaafar, Rozilydia Marketing Tourism is one of the important income-generating sectors in Sabah and contributes to its high economic growth. The objective of this study is to analyze the current business situation of Maxim Hotel, to recommend appropriate promotional strategies (social media marketing) and to recommend new and alternative strategies for Maxim Hotel. The unit of analysis is the stakeholder of the hotel, which comprised the management team, guests of the hotel, people around the business area, and the competitors. This study distributed the questionnaire to 30 respondents. The research method employed in this study is an interview with the owner of Maxim Hotel, distributed questionnaire to the people around the business area and competitors, and the' analysis of SWOT and TOWS. The findings of the interviews and observation revealed that Maxim Hotel did not focus on the promotional strategies. The development of an official website and the setting up of its Facebook and Instagram accounts were a significant contribution of this study towards the promotional effort of Maxim Hotel. 2017 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/107023/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/107023/1/107023.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah Faculty of Business and Management
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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topic Marketing
spellingShingle Marketing
Khazali, Siti Hajar
Jaafar, Rozilydia
Promotional and social media strategy for budget hotel: the case at Maxim Hotel, Kota Kinabalu / Siti Hajar Khazali and Rozilydia Jaafar
description Tourism is one of the important income-generating sectors in Sabah and contributes to its high economic growth. The objective of this study is to analyze the current business situation of Maxim Hotel, to recommend appropriate promotional strategies (social media marketing) and to recommend new and alternative strategies for Maxim Hotel. The unit of analysis is the stakeholder of the hotel, which comprised the management team, guests of the hotel, people around the business area, and the competitors. This study distributed the questionnaire to 30 respondents. The research method employed in this study is an interview with the owner of Maxim Hotel, distributed questionnaire to the people around the business area and competitors, and the' analysis of SWOT and TOWS. The findings of the interviews and observation revealed that Maxim Hotel did not focus on the promotional strategies. The development of an official website and the setting up of its Facebook and Instagram accounts were a significant contribution of this study towards the promotional effort of Maxim Hotel.
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author Khazali, Siti Hajar
Jaafar, Rozilydia
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Jaafar, Rozilydia
author_sort Khazali, Siti Hajar
title Promotional and social media strategy for budget hotel: the case at Maxim Hotel, Kota Kinabalu / Siti Hajar Khazali and Rozilydia Jaafar
title_short Promotional and social media strategy for budget hotel: the case at Maxim Hotel, Kota Kinabalu / Siti Hajar Khazali and Rozilydia Jaafar
title_full Promotional and social media strategy for budget hotel: the case at Maxim Hotel, Kota Kinabalu / Siti Hajar Khazali and Rozilydia Jaafar
title_fullStr Promotional and social media strategy for budget hotel: the case at Maxim Hotel, Kota Kinabalu / Siti Hajar Khazali and Rozilydia Jaafar
title_full_unstemmed Promotional and social media strategy for budget hotel: the case at Maxim Hotel, Kota Kinabalu / Siti Hajar Khazali and Rozilydia Jaafar
title_sort promotional and social media strategy for budget hotel: the case at maxim hotel, kota kinabalu / siti hajar khazali and rozilydia jaafar
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sabah
granting_department Faculty of Business and Management
publishDate 2017
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/107023/1/107023.pdf
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