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SUMMARY
This report is a Comparative Analysis of two businesses of the similar industry in different
geographical locations. This project aims to analyze and compare two businesses on different
settings and let students understand the market competition in the real world. The businesses that
we chose to study are Comfort Lodge, located in Kuala Lumpur and Time capsule retreat in
Kuantan. This report consists of background information and comparative analysis about the
businesses. Face to face interview was used to obtain the information and compare the
businesses competitive traits. After analyze, we had found that Comfort Lodge Is more
commercially successful than Time Capsule Retreat. We also give some recommendation to both
hotels.
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2.1Comfort Lodge
Comfort lodge is a backpacker hotel which provide the accommodation with a cheap price from
the range of RM45~RM95. The type of rooms they provided are, Single room (with fan), Single
room, double room (standard), double room (deluxe), double room (Superior, attached with
bathroom) and Family room. Besides, Comfort lodge also provides online booking and price list
for each types of room, which provide much more convenience for the customer.
The hotel situated 15 minutes walk to the KL Tower and 20 minutes walk to the PETRONAS
Twin Tower. Their location is 5 star, situated right in the middle of CSD (Central Shopping
District), the Bukit Bintang Area where all the major shopping complexes are concentrated,
e.g. Suria KLCC, Sungei Wang Plaza, Starhill, Times Square and the coming Pavilion Complex.
There are also electronics specialist complexes like Imbi Plaza and Low Yat Plaza that has a
wide range of electronics goods.
The Bintang Walk has a Paris-like road side cafe atmosphere that is filled with energetic
crowd, and a place to be seen. A short walk towards KLCC (Kuala Lumpur City Centre PETRONAS Twin Tower) you will find the night life of KL, the happy crowd that parties until
morning.
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China Town is also 20 minutes walk away and you can shop a variety of imitation goods at a
fraction of the original price. A variety of food, local, Chinese, Indian, Indo, Viet, Thai, Italian,
German, Brazilian, Arabian etc. are available around the corner, about 24 hours daily. Local
called it Glutton Street. Around CSD, are major international brand of hotels and offices of
multinationals. So all you need to do, see and just relax is all within 20 minutes walk.
They are CHEAP, COMFORTABLE, CONVENIENT & CLEAN!!!
COMFORT owns other businesses apart from COMFORT LODGE such as COMFORT INN
located in No.65 Changkat Bukit Bintang
50200 Kuala Lumpur; it is a budget hotel (about 2 star) has 37 rooms, all with ensuite
toilet/shower facilities.
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Time Capsule Retreat located at in the middle of the Sungai Lembing Town.(Bandar Sungai
Lembing 26200 Kuantan , Pahang , Malaysia.) Time Capsule Retreat is founded at the year of
2014, April. It is a space capsule like hotel. According from Mrs Tan Siow Lan (owners
mother): Mr Kelvin Young (founder of the Time Capsule Retreat) likes to travel around and he
got inspired by the Capsule Hotel in Mexico. When he came back to Malaysia, he had discussed
with my husband, his father, Mr Young to open a capsule theme hotel in Sungai Lembing.
Time Capsule Retreat aimed to provide every guest a pleasure experience with the natural, a
getaway from the concrete jungle. Time Capsule Retreat not only provided accommodation, they
also provided Local tour and arrange some outdoor activities, such as, Hiking the Panorama Hill,
Jungle trekking, visit the Rainbow water fall.
Time Capsule Retreat is currently fully booked until the next two months. Other than that Time
Capsule Retreat has a weekday promotion which the visitor can enjoy a special rate on the
weekday. This promotion is cooperate with Groupon and Agoda. Besides, Time Capsule Retreat
also decides to expand their business in Johor and Selangor in the upcoming future.
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In order to enter the hotel market at Bukit Bintang, Mr Aaron mention that it
is not as easy as 15 years ago. The barrier to enter the hotel market is weak
since it does not require a lot of specialized field of knowledge (Mr Aaron,
Personal communication, 29/11/2014). It is hard for a new hotel to survive
because it needs to compete with huge amount of competitors. The existed
hotels around Bukit Bintang area have good reviews and high reputation that
gain by its good services and experienced staff.
According to Comfort Lodge's characteristics, the nature of hotel market at
Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur is monopolistic competition. In my opinion, the
hotel in Bukit Bintang need to face a lot of challenges from their competitors,
the new comer is really hard to survive unless they provide better services and
facilities that can attract tourists and also need to advertise more to increase
their reputation.
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stay rather than new comer. Besides, it requires specialized field of knowledge
to start theme hotel business.
According to Time Capsule Retreat characteristics, the nature of hotel market
at Sungai Lembing, Kuantan is oligopoly. In my opinion, the new hotel in
Sungai Lembing need to face a lot of challenges from its competitors, the new
comer is hard to survive unless they provide better services and facilities that
can attract tourists and also need to advertise more to increase their reputation
so that people will choose to stay at their hotel.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
4.1 Comfort Lodge
1. Undergo Renovation
-Comfort Lodge should undergo renovation to provide a brand image to the customer.
This because current building of Comfort Lodge is kind of out-dated, should follow the
modern trend and design to attract more customers. Redesign the ambient inside the hotel
to create a new atmosphere to the customers.
2. Advertise in variety way.
-Comfort Lodge should advertise more and in variety way. This is because comfort lodge
located inside the deepest part of alley. Hence, they need to advertise their lodge more
frequently. For example, they can create a Facebook page to connect the business with
the customer. Through this way, they can easily connect with the customer and potential
customer and yet people can access the Lodges info easily.
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10-50
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-Weak
-Strong
Differentiated
or Standardized
Pricing Power
-Mutual dependence
-Mutual dependence
Other
Characteristics
VERDICT
Monopolistic competition
Based on analysis, Comfort Lodge would be more commercially better than Time Capsule
Retreat. This is because compare to Sungai Lembing, the market in Bukit Bintang is more
competitive. However, Comfort Lodge is able to survive and maintain positive growth in profit.
It also opened one more branches nearby. It shows that Comfort Lodge is stronger compare to
Time Capsule Retreat
5. Appendix
Comfort Lodge
Comfort Lodge
(Website)
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Comfort Lodge
52 Tengkat tong shin,
Cangkat Bukit Bintang,
50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tel: +603-2145 1818
Fax: +603-2145 7686
Interview Note
1. When was the business founded?
- 1999(15 years ago)
2. Who are the key founders?
-Mr Leong Tian Hock
3. What prompted the founders to start this business?
-back to 15 years ago there were not that many budget hotels and the founder saw the
potential and opportunity of this business
4. What are your main products or services?
-We provide room with reasonable prices.
5. Who are your customers? (eg. Age group, income-level, education-level, etc)
-Mostly backpacker
6. How many branch offices/stores do you have?
-there is one more branch nearby
7. Can you provide us a brief history of your business?
-Can be obtained from the Comfort lodge web page
-Yes, we do. Since past 5 years, we were facing a lot challenge from the competitors. The
top 3 competitors are Tropical Guess house, Anggun Hotel and Alpha Genesis Hotel.
10. How big is your market share as well as your top competitors?
-Approximately 30%
11. Is the business constantly facing strong competition from other competitors? What
strategies have they used to compete you?
-Normally they provide a lower rate than our hotel, and sometime they do provide a
better service (customers experience).
12. Generally, do you feel it is easy or hard to enter this market? why?
-Not easy to enter the market, because of huge amount of competition, it is tough and not
as easy as 15 years ago.
13. How do you compete with your competitors? What strategies do you employ to divert
customers away from your competitors?
-We improve our customer services, more advance facilities and enhance the hotel
environment become more comfortable.
14. How often do you release a new product or promotion?
-Not really, but like what I said before, we upgrade hotel facilities, well trained the staff
to provide a better service than other hotel.
15. Are your pricing decisions strongly affected by your competitors? Why or why not?
-Yes, pricing is one of the factors, but then if there are more tourist visits and happen to
stay here, then I do say that is doesnt affect that much.
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Interview Note
1. When was the business founded?
- The year of 2014, April
2. Who are the key founders?
-Mr Kevin Young Tien Seng
3. What prompted the founders to start this business?
-Mr Kelvin likes to travel and stay in different type of guest house and this inspired him
to start this business and he thinks this business has a great potential and opportunity at
Sungai Lembing, Kuantan
4. What are your main products or services?
-Other than providing accommodation, we also can arrange some outdoor activities, such
as jungle tracking, visit the Rainbow water fall, climbing Panorama Hill and if they want
to, we can give them a local tour around the Sungai Lembing.
5. Who are your customers? (eg. Age group,income-level,education-level, etc)
-Our customer are from all range age group, mostly local.
6. How many branch offices/stores do you have?
-No, Currently we have no other branches. However, we are considering to open more
branches in the future, maybe around the Johor and Selangor area.
7. Can you provide us a brief history of your business?
-Can be obtained from the Time Capsule Retreat web page
8. How was the recent development of the business?
-The business is doing fine now, and fully booked until the next follow 2 months
9. Do you have many competitors? Who are they? Who are your top 3 competitors?
-No, currently we dont have any competitors.
10. How big is your market share as well as your top competitors?
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-Approximately 0-5
11. Is the business constantly facing strong competition from other competitors?
-(No competition)
12. Generally, do you feel it is easy or hard to enter this market? why?
-Not easy to enter the market. At the early stage of this business, we doubt that we will
have any customers because we dont have any experience before this.
13. How do you compete with your competitors? What strategies do you employ to divert
customers away from your competitors?
-Although we dont have any competitor now but we are still doing some promotion, for
example we cooperate with Groupon and Agoda. Besides, we do alsoe advertise through
Social media such as Facebook and Instagram.
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http://www.bharian.com.my /
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Time Capsule Retreat(n.d)In facebook[Hotel . National Park] Retrieved from
https://www.facebook.com/timecapsuleretreat
Time Capsule Retreat(2014) About Us. Retrieved from
http://timecapsuleretreat.wix.com/home#!blank/czr2
Comfort Lodge (2014) About us. Retrieved from http://www.hotelcomfort.biz/html/about.htm
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