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One email system for seven hotels and residences

Claridge's, The Connaught, The Berkeley, The Emory, Maybourne Beverly Hills, Maybourne Riviera and Surrenne, each with its own identity, all sending from one platform.

Client
Maybourne Hotel Group
Sector
Luxury hospitality
Years
2018 to now
Platform
Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
  • Design system
  • Dynamics 365
  • Multi-property
Ten Maybourne email templates side by side, one per property, sharing the same structure with different brand colours
Standard, retail and B2B templates across the group's properties

01challenge

Seven identities, no developer, every build bespoke

Seven properties with distinct palettes, typefaces and voices, one Dynamics 365 instance, and no in-house email developer. Every campaign was a bespoke build and every edit risked breaking rendering in Outlook.

02solution

One library, a token file per property

A modular library in Foundation for Emails with a token layer per property: colour, type, footer and voucher modules swap per brand while the structure stays the same. Standard, retail and B2B template variants were delivered into Dynamics 365 as locked layouts with editable content regions, and rendering-tested across clients before handover.

2024 campaign emails for Claridge’s, The Connaught, The Berkeley, The Emory, The Maybourne Riviera, The Maybourne Beverly Hills, Surrenne and the B2B programme, side by side
2024 campaigns across the group, all from the same library

03results

More sends, more bookings, above the benchmark

+73%more campaigns sent in 2024, from the same library

  • Seven properties and a B2B events programme served from one codebase
  • A new property is onboarded with a token file and a day of QA
  • Agency-built booking and offer templates reviewed against the system before go-live
  • Ongoing pre-send rendering QA on request

Measured, 2024

Newsletter sends, across seven properties and B2B
161+73% year on year
Clicks to hotel websites
175,000+29% year on year
Room revenue, 14-day attribution
£XXm+35% year on year
Room revenue booked direct from email
£XXX,XXX+24% year on year
E-commerce revenue from email
£XX,XXX+70% year on year
Room nights from B2B campaigns
1,108+18% year on year

Against the hospitality benchmark

Open rate
53%vs 36%
Click-to-open rate
3.7%vs 2.9%
Booking conversion per campaign
0.3%vs 0.1%
Unsubscribe rate
0.7%vs 0.8%

Source: Maybourne CRM 2024 performance review, year-on-year against 2023. Benchmark: Revinate 2024 Hospitality Benchmark Report, email channel, EMEA.

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