Turtle Bay Takes New Approach to Personalization and Guest Connection

Simplify the complex hotel tech landscape
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Turtle Bay Takes New Approach to Personalization and Guest Connection
After acquiring Turtle Bay Resort, Blackstone set out to transform it into a luxury destination on Oahu’s North Shore. With a full property renovation and rebrand in motion, the team needed to rethink how they marketed to and engaged guests. Their goal wasn’t just higher ADRs, it was a completely new approach to personalization and guest connection. With sales, marketing, and revenue teams all playing a role, leadership needed a centralized way to understand guest behavior and coordinate outreach across every channel. They saw an opportunity to start fresh with a new tech stack, and knew that a Customer Data Platform (CDP) would be critical to putting the guest at the center of it all.
To bring this strategy to life, Turtle Bay turned to Salesforce and Hapi. Salesforce’s suite of tools (Marketing Cloud, Advertising Cloud, and Marketing Cloud Personalization) offered the power to map every step of the customer journey. But getting data into Salesforce quickly and reliably required a strong integration layer. That’s where Hapi came in. With Hapi Guest connected to OPERA Cloud, the resort was able to pull PMS data into Salesforce in real time. Hapi handled integration, testing, and data mapping, allowing Turtle Bay to activate new strategies faster and with confidence.
Turtle Bay moved from pushing broad messages across many channels to delivering personalized experiences tailored to each guest's journey.
The average time from first website visit to booking dropped from 30 days and 14 touches to just 11 days and 7 touches.
The team now builds campaigns around personas such as "luxury nomads" and "wave followers," resulting in stronger engagement.
Personalized messages are sent based on room type booked, guest demographics, and behavior (surf and wellness themes are top performers).
Retargeting travelers who leave the booking engine without reserving has shown clear ROI.
Centralized data allows the team to analyze profit per guest, compare direct vs. OTA performance, and optimize spend.
With buy-in from marketing and commercial teams, Turtle Bay’s strategy is fully aligned around a single customer view.
“With Hapi’s development support and seamless integration to OPERA Cloud, we were able to get our strategies up and running quickly. A lot of people think implementing Salesforce is an enormous lift, but it’s not, if you have the right partners.”
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