Situation
While Club Med was active from a Business Development and Sales perspective in India for the last couple of years, it was making a comeback from a communications standpoint after a hiatus. We were brought on board to reintroduce the brand to the media and create mind space for its USPs and offerings.
Challenge
Club Med in India was perceived as a timeshare company or a medical brand with very little to no reference to being a resort brand. Hence the recall value for its proposition of being an all-inclusive holiday experience was extremely low. Therefore, a full-fledged PR strategy was the need of the hour.
Strategy
As part of the strategy, we focused on B2C platforms to spread brand awareness. Direct engagement and seeding of conversations around highly immersive vacations, premium hospitality, and tailormade holidays. The idea was to enter the space where Club Med would be the best contemporary choice for international holidays by promoting Club Med as the best choice to stay in any international destination was vital to tap into the segment. A highly concentrated digital approach was selected to communicate with the audience via blogs, social media, travel websites, and other online media. We also launched a high impact influencer marketing program with systematized familiarization trips with travel bloggers, social media influencers, and celebrities, leading to increased exposure in the online medium and viral on social media.
Outcome
We were able to garner cross channel publicity across multiple media outlets such as television, print and online to ensure increased brand awareness among various target audiences. We achieved close to 600 coverage clips in less than one year with a total reach of 92.30 million, and a PR Value of USD 1,378,564.