- Founded in France in 1967
- 27 hotel brands from luxury to economy
- 4981 hotels worldwide
- Present in 95 countries in 5 continents
- 4th biggest hotel group globally by MarketCap
AN INDUSTRY DISRUPTED BY NEW DIGITAL ENTRANTS
ACCOR HOTEL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS
Entrant companies/business model
- Created/led by <30 yo managers
- Flat/horizontal working organization
- Agile and customer centric
- Personal treat
- The “home feeling” and the comfort of a
house (facilities).
- Easy and fast way of booking and payment
method
- Better technologies, freedom for innovation
- Conversion and recurrence are the objective:
There is hardly no other brand that accompanies
more the user than Airbnb.
- Worldwide ambitions, scale and speed principles.
- Accommodation in areas where the classic
offer can be low and expensive.
- International offer
Accor Hotels (& other hospitality big groups)
- Led by >50yo managers
- Vertical organization
- Attached to values/history/hierarchy
- Individualism
- Lack of open-mindness
- Attachment to brands, references
- International offer
Gathered insights thanks to
Djibril Fofana
A NEW BUSINESS MODEL
From:
Asset-heavy,
hierarchical
company
To:
Dynamic, agile and fast moving
organization
Mobile First: common mobile app
gathering all services for all hotels
Customer centric
Streamlined customer experience
(one-click booking, online check-in, and
paperless payment)
Agile IT structure
Simplicity, clarity & speed
5-year digital
transformation plan
GOAL: CREATING AN AGILE CULTURE
CUSTOMER CENTRIC
PEOPLE
ORIENTED
INNOVATIVE
EFFICIENT
ANTICIPATE
TRENDS
REACT FASTER THAN
COMPETITORS
4 CHANGES TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
“Young people have a sharper ability than us to anticipate the world of tomorrow” - Sebastien Bazin, CEO
AN ECOSYSTEM OF PARTNERS
Shifting from systems solely
designed to deal with selling
roomnights to a system offering
enhanced hospitality experiences
Agile and Fast IT infrastructure
Central reservation systems, revenue
management services or payment
solutions that are secure ...
UPDATED PROCESSES AND ASSETS
The customer is placed at the heart of the strategy
Touchpoints to dream and select
How to deal with Booking and Expedia ?
“A booking customer is not an Accor
customer”
“Hospitality is an industry where stocks don’t
exist”
Revenue managenent strategy
AN ECOSYSTEM OF PARTNERS
FastBooking is a B2B hotel tool provider, serves more than 3500 hotels
with a website builder, channel manager, digital marketing campaign
and a business intelligence software
1
Fend
offonline
travel
agency
challengers
Booking.com
3rd
party.sites
sold
17%
ofovernight
stays
in
3700
AccorHotel
2
Speed
up
the
im
plem
entation
of
their digital strategy
Stay
Travel experience becomes seamless
Booking
Online check-in
Text message
for easy access
Fast check-in
Fast check-out
Towards a limitless ecosystem of touchpoints
Accor Local
Enjoy your hotel without sleeping there
Breakfast, fitness, laundry, (point relais)
etc.
In France only for now
- Still need some pedagogy
screenshots SM about interactions and feedback
and happy people
Data analytics facilitates customer understanding
“If data is collected and
processed in respect for
customer privacy and
put into the hands of
‘guest-passioned’
people, it becomes an
amazing lever of
personalization,
satisfaction and,
consequently, business”
50-million-member loyalty program
HAVE THEIR DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION WORKED?
● The digital transformation of AccorHotels is well under way
● The newly created structures are now fully in place
● A host of disruptive ideas targeting millennials are being
implemented → Jo&Joe
Jo&Joe
- A groundbreaking lifestyle brand created by the Marketing
Innovation Lab.
- An “open house,” a unique environment that blends the best of
private rental, hostel and hotel formats.
- The first was launched in Hossegor, France, in March 2017 and the
group is aiming to open 50 Jo&Joe venues in several fashionable
destinations around the world by 2020.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Really knowing your audience
2. Personalise the travelling experience
3. User-friendly app and website design
4. Have a fast booking turnaround
5. Play with location features
6. Test, test and test!
7. Provide an incentive
WHAT CAN HOTELIERS LEARN FROM AIRBNB?
8. Work on your newsletter
9. Use UGC
10. Continue to launch new campaigns
11. Expand your partnerships
12. Is your customer service clear?
→ Accor Local positioning unclear
13. Neighbourhood Guides
● VR to visit rooms.
● Bring digital to the room (App - TV..) order, services...
● Trip planification.
● Robots (Ex: Continental)
TRENDS
Are they relevant?
“The realignment of or investment in new technology, business models,
and processes to drive value for customers and employees and more
effectively compete in an ever-changing digital economy.”
- Microsoft
QUESTIONS?
Augmented
Hospitality strategy
Providing guests with
a wide range of
complementary
services
Give guests an
unmatched overall
experience far beyond
the stay
Making business with Accor the easiest,
most transparent and data driven
Dedicated portal for partners to access
personalized information & services
AN ECOSYSTEM OF PARTNERS
VISION
Opportunity of the legal challenges that airbnb faces
Diversification? : Joe&Joe https://www.joandjoe.com/en/
Use of IOT to have personalized dashboard screens connected to the application in the rooms? With
information about the city, medias etc.
GOOD SOURCES
https://www.artiref.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/strategie-digitale-accor.pdf
https://www.hotelmanagement.net/operate/accorhotels-just-predicted-7-hospitality-
trends-for-2018
https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/articles/a-strategic-response-to-digital-di
sruption-the-case-of-accorhotels/ case study on how airbnb disrupted the industy

Accor Hotel Digitalization

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    - Founded inFrance in 1967 - 27 hotel brands from luxury to economy - 4981 hotels worldwide - Present in 95 countries in 5 continents - 4th biggest hotel group globally by MarketCap
  • 3.
    AN INDUSTRY DISRUPTEDBY NEW DIGITAL ENTRANTS
  • 7.
    ACCOR HOTEL STRUCTURALPROBLEMS Entrant companies/business model - Created/led by <30 yo managers - Flat/horizontal working organization - Agile and customer centric - Personal treat - The “home feeling” and the comfort of a house (facilities). - Easy and fast way of booking and payment method - Better technologies, freedom for innovation - Conversion and recurrence are the objective: There is hardly no other brand that accompanies more the user than Airbnb. - Worldwide ambitions, scale and speed principles. - Accommodation in areas where the classic offer can be low and expensive. - International offer Accor Hotels (& other hospitality big groups) - Led by >50yo managers - Vertical organization - Attached to values/history/hierarchy - Individualism - Lack of open-mindness - Attachment to brands, references - International offer
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    Gathered insights thanksto Djibril Fofana
  • 11.
    A NEW BUSINESSMODEL From: Asset-heavy, hierarchical company To: Dynamic, agile and fast moving organization Mobile First: common mobile app gathering all services for all hotels Customer centric Streamlined customer experience (one-click booking, online check-in, and paperless payment) Agile IT structure Simplicity, clarity & speed 5-year digital transformation plan
  • 13.
    GOAL: CREATING ANAGILE CULTURE CUSTOMER CENTRIC PEOPLE ORIENTED INNOVATIVE EFFICIENT ANTICIPATE TRENDS REACT FASTER THAN COMPETITORS
  • 16.
    4 CHANGES TOTHE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE “Young people have a sharper ability than us to anticipate the world of tomorrow” - Sebastien Bazin, CEO
  • 17.
  • 18.
    Shifting from systemssolely designed to deal with selling roomnights to a system offering enhanced hospitality experiences Agile and Fast IT infrastructure Central reservation systems, revenue management services or payment solutions that are secure ... UPDATED PROCESSES AND ASSETS
  • 21.
    The customer isplaced at the heart of the strategy
  • 23.
  • 25.
    How to dealwith Booking and Expedia ? “A booking customer is not an Accor customer” “Hospitality is an industry where stocks don’t exist” Revenue managenent strategy
  • 26.
    AN ECOSYSTEM OFPARTNERS FastBooking is a B2B hotel tool provider, serves more than 3500 hotels with a website builder, channel manager, digital marketing campaign and a business intelligence software 1 Fend offonline travel agency challengers Booking.com 3rd party.sites sold 17% ofovernight stays in 3700 AccorHotel 2 Speed up the im plem entation of their digital strategy
  • 27.
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    Travel experience becomesseamless Booking Online check-in Text message for easy access Fast check-in Fast check-out
  • 29.
    Towards a limitlessecosystem of touchpoints
  • 30.
    Accor Local Enjoy yourhotel without sleeping there Breakfast, fitness, laundry, (point relais) etc. In France only for now - Still need some pedagogy
  • 32.
    screenshots SM aboutinteractions and feedback and happy people
  • 34.
    Data analytics facilitatescustomer understanding “If data is collected and processed in respect for customer privacy and put into the hands of ‘guest-passioned’ people, it becomes an amazing lever of personalization, satisfaction and, consequently, business” 50-million-member loyalty program
  • 35.
    HAVE THEIR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONWORKED? ● The digital transformation of AccorHotels is well under way ● The newly created structures are now fully in place ● A host of disruptive ideas targeting millennials are being implemented → Jo&Joe Jo&Joe - A groundbreaking lifestyle brand created by the Marketing Innovation Lab. - An “open house,” a unique environment that blends the best of private rental, hostel and hotel formats. - The first was launched in Hossegor, France, in March 2017 and the group is aiming to open 50 Jo&Joe venues in several fashionable destinations around the world by 2020.
  • 39.
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    1. Really knowingyour audience 2. Personalise the travelling experience 3. User-friendly app and website design 4. Have a fast booking turnaround 5. Play with location features 6. Test, test and test! 7. Provide an incentive WHAT CAN HOTELIERS LEARN FROM AIRBNB? 8. Work on your newsletter 9. Use UGC 10. Continue to launch new campaigns 11. Expand your partnerships 12. Is your customer service clear? → Accor Local positioning unclear 13. Neighbourhood Guides
  • 41.
    ● VR tovisit rooms. ● Bring digital to the room (App - TV..) order, services... ● Trip planification. ● Robots (Ex: Continental) TRENDS Are they relevant?
  • 42.
    “The realignment ofor investment in new technology, business models, and processes to drive value for customers and employees and more effectively compete in an ever-changing digital economy.” - Microsoft QUESTIONS?
  • 43.
    Augmented Hospitality strategy Providing guestswith a wide range of complementary services Give guests an unmatched overall experience far beyond the stay Making business with Accor the easiest, most transparent and data driven Dedicated portal for partners to access personalized information & services AN ECOSYSTEM OF PARTNERS
  • 45.
    VISION Opportunity of thelegal challenges that airbnb faces Diversification? : Joe&Joe https://www.joandjoe.com/en/ Use of IOT to have personalized dashboard screens connected to the application in the rooms? With information about the city, medias etc.
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