Located on the shore of the Golden Horn Bay, in one of the tourist areas of Istanbul (Beyoglu), Lazzoni Hotel is suitable for those who like to explore the culture, history and gastronomic map of the city, but at the same time, prefers to live and relax away from noisy streets and crowds of people, surrounded by many greenery and water.

In the spring of 2021, Lazzoni Hotel turned to SEA Company in order to enter the tourist market of Russia and CIS countries, which at that time occupied the first place in the ranking of countries visiting Istanbul for tourist and business purposes but brought less than 1% of the load to the hotel. After the inspection of the hotel, SEA Company employees identified the main issues that prevented the hotel from receiving more guests from CIS countries. One of the key problems was the lack of established relations with local DMCs serving tour operators from the CIS, as well as critically low awareness among travelers and travel agents about the location of the hotel (Golden Horn Bay) and its advantages.

In order to implement the task of starting the reception of tourists from Russia and CIS countries, it was decided to start cooperation within the framework of the package «Sales representation». The set of measures within the package is balanced in such a way to use all sales channels as quickly and efficiently as possible and start getting results already in the first month of cooperation.

As part of the first stage, a competitor market analysis and a survey among the largest tour operators in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries were conducted, which allowed USP hotels relevant to the CIS markets to be formed, to understand the volume of the target audience and to develop a detailed action plan.

At the second stage, in the course of communication with the sending tour operators, the host companies of Istanbul (DMCs) were identified by the tour operators they serve and special motivating conditions were made for cooperation in the markets of Russia and the CIS.

The third stage was active sales in domestic markets: initiating and conducting training webinars for tour operators and agents, online broadcasts from the hotel, organizing FAM trips with the support of key operators, business dinners and much more.

In order to increase awareness about the hotel and the Golden Horn Bay area, and as a result, to increase direct bookings through online channels, a press tour was organized in October 2021 with the participation of journalists from key travel and lifestyle media in Russia.

In January 2022, Lazzoni Hotel became the venue for the «Future of Luxury» workshop, which brought together more than 150 representatives of the tourism business from all CIS countries, Latvia and the Middle East.

In March 2022, a business breakfast in co-partnership with one of the key tour operator is planned for representatives of the travel industry in Russia, as well as meetings within the framework of the international tourism exhibition MITT-2022.

As part of the package of services, the SEA Company sales and PR departments carried out in-depth analytical work and highly dynamic activity. The results were: