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Nº 03 Heritage Hotel 2019

The Claridges

Garden Brunch campaign and Anglo-Indian Fest activation for a heritage Delhi hotel — audience strategy, photography direction and the social system that ran the season.

Role

Account Lead, Hospitality Marketing, Social Management

Year

2019

Location

Delhi, IN

Timeline

3 months

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§ 01 · Challenge

The brief.

The Claridges is a heritage Delhi hotel with a property built around its lawns. The brief was to turn an ordinary Sunday into a sensory escape — fine dining surrounded by greenery — and to put an affluent Delhi audience in the room week after week. The room couldn't dial down to chase a younger feed; the audience had to grow up to the room.

Marketing for a hotel at this tier is about giving the same audience a reason to choose this Sunday over the dozen other premium plans on a Delhi weekend, without ever competing on discount.

§ 02 · Approach

The work.

We built the season around two beats — "Garden Brunch" as the always-on Sunday hero and an "Anglo-Indian Fest" as the seasonal moment. Garden Brunch leaned on limited covers and a Sunday-retreat positioning; the photography stayed close to the lawns and the table, set-driven and unhurried, so the room earned the click on its own terms.

The Anglo-Indian Fest was carried by a short film that braided Indian and Western culinary imagery to read the cultural fusion on the plate. Each beat got its own creative kit, an on-property photoshoot tied to the menu, and a tight social calendar across Instagram and Facebook targeted to affluent city residents. Account work covered photo and motion direction on property, weekly reservation reporting with the F&B team, and the creative review with the operator each week.

§ 03 · Outcome
“Weekly Garden Brunch reservations stepped up across the season, the Anglo-Indian Fest film travelled well across owned and earned channels, and the room re-positioned cleanly as a destination for premium, curated experiences rather than a hotel restaurant a guest happened to walk into. ”
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