ABSTRACT
This study focuses on the marketing problems and prospects of five
star hotel in Enugu Metropolis “ case study of Nike Lake Resort Hotel”.
The main purpose was to find out among other things the followings:
- To examine if the promotional strategies used by
the hotel lead to increase in customer awareness.
- To determine if the quality of services rendered
by the hotel will lead to a bright future for the company.
- The population of the study comprises the
customers and the management and relevant staff of Nike Lake Resort Hotel. The
researcher used Topman’s formular to determine the sample size of the customers
and census was also used for the staff of Nike Lake Resort Hotel.
- A structured questionnaire was developed and
administered by he researcher to 288 respondents comprising the customers and
management and relevant staff of the organisation.
- Chi-square was used to test the four hypothesis
formulated, based on the study carried out, the following findings were made.
- That customers are not satisfied with the
charges for services of the hotel.
- That the services of Nike Lake Hotel are readily
available to their customers.
- That customers not withstanding the charges are
satisfied with the services rendered.
- Based on the findings, the researcher made the
following recommendations.
- That Nike Lake Resort Hotel should make their
charges affordable to their customers in order to make more returns for the
hotel.
- And also they should appreciate the need for the
use of effective promotional strategies.
- The government on their part should provide a
scheme to help Hotel to obtain funds if necessary in order to encourage tourism.
- The researcher strongly believes that these
recommendations will help to achieve the desired goals if properly applied and
co-ordinated by the parties concerned.
TABLE
OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND OF THE
STUDY
STATEMENT OF
PROBLEM
OBJECTIVES OF THE
STUDY
FORMULATION OF
HYPOTHESIS
SIGNIFICANCE OF
STUDY
SCOPE OF THE
STUDY
LIMITATIONS OF THE
STUDY
DEFINITION OF
TERMS
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE
REVIEW
MARKETING OF SERVICE AN OVERVIEW
CUSTOMERS BEHAVIOUR AND MOTIVATION IN THE HOTEL
MARKETING
EFFECTS OF COMPETITION ON THE MARKETING OF HOTEL
OPERATIONS/SERVICES
THE MARKETING PROBLEMS OF NIKE LAKE RESORT HOTEL21
BUSINESS FACILITIES LEISURE FACILITIES CARE
HIRE AND BOATING SERVICES IN THE HOTEL OPERATIONS
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
SOURCE OF DATA
COLLECTION
POPULATION OF
STUDY
DETERMINATION OF SAMPLE
SIZE
SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
RESEARCH
INSTRUMENT
DISTRIBUTION OF
QUESTIONNAIRES
METHOD OF DATA
ANALYSIS
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND
INTERPRETATION OF
DATA
PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND
INTERPRETATION OF
DATA
TESTING OF
HYPOTHESIS
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND
CONCLUSION
SUMMARY OF
FINDING
RECOMMENDATIONS
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY/APPENDIX
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
In the 17th century
when farming was regarded as the main occupation in Nigeria, farmers go to the
farm in the morning, at evening they will gather in the village square eat,
drink, rest and plan how the next days farming would be.
This gave rise to people building small houses or huts outside
their main houses to contain visitors who may be travelling and needing a place
to rest.
As time went on we started having caravans, people will build it
or install it for travelers to lodge before proceeding on their journey.
As development started coming in with the coming of the “whites”,
mini hotels started coming up and travelers started making use of them, only
for sleeping accommodation.
Since this is the case, five start hotels were built for travelers
to tell comfortable and to be sure that none of their food will be skipped in
terms of breakfast, lunch or diner.
Nike Lake Resort Hotel was built in Enugu State. Hotel business is
a potential foreign exchange earner if well harnessed in respect of these the
Enugu-State government in their quest to reap the fruit of the hotel business
summoned for the establishment of five star hotels, first of its kind east of
the Niger, on the 6th day of
February 1988, Nike Lake Resort Hotel was formally commissioned as five star
hotel by the then Chief of general staff and minister of defense Ltd General
Sani Abacha.
Nike Lake Resort Hotel Limited belong to the hotel sector in the
state economy which witnessed an uproar of problems since its establishment as
a result of the poor condition of the economy, neglect by the government,
insufficient power supply and employment discrimination.
These problems mentioned are not only facing Nike Lake Resort
Hotel alone but does parade as a syndrome to the other entire five star hotel.
They encounter the greatest form of instability both in structure and in
output. This goes along to explain the unsteady setting and management of hotel
industry.
The effects of many hotels and cut-throat competition in the hotel
industry have equally called for various strategies to be used by the hotel
involved, such as heavy promotional effort in form of advertisement and
publicity etc.
Dwindling and deteriorating economy in Enugu has drastically
reduced per capital income of an average Nigerian, leading to their
concentration on basic necessities of life, such as food, shelter and clothing.
If one looks closer at some of these hotel industries, one may discover that
some of the strategies are wholesome and helpful to marketing bodies of these
hotels, while some are inefficient and run counter to the appeals and
objectives of the industry. An example of an inefficient strategy as regards
promotion is where a half-nude girl is shown on the television screen attending
to customers in the hotel. The objective may be to attract the attention
of the target market, though very discouraging especially in the Christian
faith.
A fire star hotel is vital in every society because it helps for
rapid development in technology and social fields.
Nike Lake Resort Hotel happens to be the best leader in the hotel
industries in Enugu, although the company enjoys leadership position, its life
is not altogether easy. Some hotels keep challenging its strength while other
hotels try to take advantage of its weakness.
Since the conception Nike Lake Resort Hotel, it ensures to attain
the motives of its establishment and also emulate the activities of other five
star hotels because marketing is a delicate part of the business that has to be
planned very well and implemented so as to achieve organisational goal and to
make sure that customers are satisfied with the product or service rendered by
the business organisation. In other words, hotel business deals with customer
satisfaction before its organisational goal can be achieved. Hotel business
will have to be marketing oriented and customers’ satisfaction should be the
topmost priority of the hotel.
In view of the importance of hotel in the provision of the economy
and the needs to better the service in the hotel, the researcher takes a
critical look at the problems and prospects of five star hotel in Enugu
metropolis with special interest on Nike Lake Resort Hotel Enugu.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Some barriers prompt this research:
i. Nike Lake Resort Hotel was met with serious
competition after its conception as regards to the other five star hotels that
entered the market.
ii. Nike Lake Resort Hotel encountered poor
condition of economy, neglect by the government, insufficient power supply,
employment discrimination and instability in output.
iii. More so, Nigeria is currently experiencing
economic depression, high inflation and complete devaluation of its currency.
These bad situation have adversely affected the target market,
thus hotels are seen as luxuries. Nike Lake Resort Hotel inspite of the
economic instability should strive to meet the demand of the customer, though
while they are on this situation will as well encounter several problems. This
study attempts to make recommendations, statement of problems and corrections
of the problems and corrections of the problem confronted during the research.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objectives of the study are to evaluate the past and present
marketing problems and prospects in the hotel services.
Nike Lake Resort Hotel and from the analysis determine the
following.
i. To find out the problems facing the five star
hotels in Enugu metropolis.
ii. To observe if the type of services used by the
hotel to their customer are readily available to their customers.
iii. To determine whether the charges for services
rendered by Nike Lake lead to increase returns.
iv. To determine if the services adopted by Nike
Lake Resort Hotel are available to their customer.
v. To examine if the quality of services provided
by Nike Lake will lead to a bright future for the hotel.
vi. And also to find out if the promotional
strategies used by Nike Lake leads to increase to customer awareness.
FORMULATION OF HYPOTHESIS
1. The promotional strategies used by Nike Lake
Resort Hotel in Enugu do not lead to increase in customer’s awareness. The
promotional strategies used by Nike Lake Resort Hotel Enugu lead to increase in
customer’s awareness.
2. The quality of services provided by Nike Lake
Resort Hotel Enugu will not lead to a bright future for the company.
3. The charges for services rendered by Nike Lake
Resort Hotel does not lead to increased returns. The charges for service
rendered by Nike Lake Resort Hotel lead to increased returns.
4. The services of Nike Lake Resort Hotel are not
readily available to their customers. The services of Nike Lake Resort Hotel
are readily available to their customers.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This study is significant because it helps in identifying the
major areas of strength and weaknesses in the marketing operations of five star
hotels in Enugu Metropolis.
This research work will be of great importance to the reader who
wants to be acquanted with the services rendered by the hotel especially in Enugu
Metropolis.
It will also be a source of reference material to a researcher who
is carrying out research work related to this topic.
Moreso, the researcher and other scholars will be highly
enlightened by the new discoveries contained in this study. This project will
assist future researcher who may indicate interest in areas related to this
subject matter.
The management of Nike Lake Resort Hotel and other five star
hotels will benefit from the implications of this study as major marketing
problems facing them as well as marketing prospects awaiting them will be fully
x-rayed and then highlighted with recommendations made.
Five star hotels control a major shares of the hotel industry and
as such have major impact on the aggregate economy.
This study as such will interest our national economic planners
and organisations concerned with business of hospitality and tourism.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This simply means the areas where the researcher is expected to
cover. The scope of this study is very wide if it has to be carried out in all
the five star hotels in Nigeria due to time and other circumstance beyond the
researcher. The researcher work is limited only at Enugu Metropolis. And the
research is concentrated more on Nike Lake Resort Hotel.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
This means that some terms which feature in this work required
some explanations.
1. Lake Limousine: These are the hiring services,
which the hotel conducts for their customers (Hotel and management approach,
1986:106).
2. Banquet Halls: These are halls which the hotel
rent to their target market for activities such as wedding ceremonies, seminars
and other related parties (Hotel and management approach 1986:256).
3. Caravans: These are small houses or huts built
and installed for travelers to lodge before proceeding on their journey (Guide
to Hotel workbook 1980:201).
4. Syndrome: An act of habitual persistence towards
something in existence (Macmillan Dictionary, 1979).
5. Prospect: This means a person or institution who
will benefit from your product or service and can afford to buy or pay for it
(Adirika, Ebue and Nnolim, 123).
6. Five star Hotel: A mark of quality that tells
how good the place is.
Department | Marketing |
Project ID Code | MKT0080 |
Chapters | 5 Chapters |
No of Pages | 76 pages |
Methodology | Chi Square |
Reference | YES |
Format | Microsoft Word |
Price | ₦4000, $15 |
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