A hotel market segmentation built upon demographics of hotel customers reveals a wealth of information about hotel customer segments.

I recently wrote an article about demographics for this target market that reveal hotel market segments. You can access that article below:

This post provides additional characteristics through hotel market segmentation.

Hotel Market Segmentation Reveals  Generation
And Life Stages Of
Hotel Customer Segments

Age reveals that the best target market for hotels is Baby Boomers in mid-life. So they make up the primary hotel customer segment.

Boomers are individualistic, sober, competitive, frugal, materialistic and stressed. They have spent most of their time on their careers and with their families. Their major concerns include their health, finances, the environment, and having an orderly world. Their information needs include overcoming stress and dealing with a changing world.

Mid-life Tasks

Tasks for people in mid-life include:

• Family tasks – accepting growing children, reassessing marriage, relating to teenage children and aging parents.
• Career tasks – reexamining work. Boomers comprise the greatest workaholics this nation has ever known. During middlescense many begin to question their dedication to their careers.
• Personal tasks – searching for personal values and meaning, reevaluating personal priorities and values, and adjusting to single life.
• Social tasks – reevaluating relationships and forming more committed ones.

Hotel Market Segmentation Reveals
Social Class and Lifestyles Of
Hotel Customer Segments

Middle class members are usually college-educated professionals who earn their income with their minds, often on keyboards. Their work involves high psychological demands, long work hours, but high levels of control and almost no physical demands or hazardous exposure.

This hotel customer segment spends much discretionary income on comfort, pleasure, time-savers, eating out and entertainment, their health, their homes, staying young, and aesthetic treats.

Hotel market segmentation provides insights to lifestyles of the primary hotel customer segment. Education and income indicate that the most common lifestyle among hotel customers is the Achievers lifestyle.

Achievers have high resources. They are primarily conventional, politically conservative, and committed professionals. Because they are status oriented, they buy good products that exemplify their success. They also seek social standing and security through their achievements.

Hotel Market Segmentation
Reveals The Most Important
Hotel Customer Segments

Having determined generations, life stages, social classes and lifestyles, hotel market segmentation reveals characteristics that can help hotel managers acquire new and loyal customers.

At mid-life, people begin to reevaluate the way they have lived and want to do more of what they have missed. For Boomers this means less time working and more time having fun and building meaningful relationships with family and friends. Leisure travel provides both.

In addition, Boomers have lived with more stress than any other living American generation. They need the stress relief that leisure travel provides.

As mostly college-educated professionals, hotel customers also need to escape the high psychological demands of their careers, and they have the money to pay for pleasure and entertainment.

Hotel Market Segmentation
Conclusion

Hotel managers can improve activities and services for their best customers by considering characteristics revealed through hotel market segmentation and tailoring their marketing to the above hotel market segments.

You can also get loads of information about using the demographics in this post at Strategic Market Segmentation.

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Posted 5-5-08:
Hotel Market Segmentation &
Hotel Customer Segments

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