Case Study · Hospitality · Vall d'Àger · Since 2024

Resort Vall
d'Àger

Calm. Nature. Stars.
A premium nature resort, fully repositioned, and the integrated marketing engine that runs it.

Resort Vall d'Àger bungalows in the garden at golden hour, Serra del Montsec behind
The Brief

A campsite with the soul of a refuge.

A family business born in the Vall d'Àger more than 30 years ago, the resort sits at the foot of the Serra del Montsec, under one of the darkest skies in Europe. Three decades of welcoming guests had built something genuinely extraordinary, with the same close, personal hospitality of the early days. What hadn't caught up was the perception. Loved locally as a campsite, it had outgrown the category, but the brand, the digital presence and the operational layer still belonged to a smaller story.

The Challenge

Reposition the perception. Then build the engine underneath it.

01 Diagnose

Strategic audit of brand, market and category. The diagnosis: not a campsite anymore. A premium nature resort that hadn't admitted it yet.

02 Ecosystem Design

New identity. New voice. New web. The complete brand ecosystem built around the new positioning, anchored in editorial photography and Catalan-first language.

03 Automate

A custom CRM purpose-made for nature resorts, wired to the resort's booking engine. Email and WhatsApp sequences fire on autopilot, in the brand voice.

04 Growth

Communication and conversion to reach new audiences. Retention to bring them back, season after season. The full growth cycle, activated.

MÄO Strategy

Six tracks.
One integrated system.

01

Strategic Consulting

Before any visual or technical work, we mapped the gap between what the resort actually offered and what the market perceived. The diagnosis was clear: the place wasn't a campsite anymore. It was a premium nature resort that hadn't admitted it yet. Everything that followed, identity, web, social, automations, was built to close that gap.

Resort Vall d'Àger entrance at the start of the engagement
02

Brand Identity

A complete visual rebuild. Every element calibrated to elevate the brand and read as premium, natural, of this valley.

Resort Vall d'Àger nestled in the valley landscape
Resort Vall d'Àger entrance, golden-hour treatment
Resort Vall d'Àger dining room, editorial light
Resort Vall d'Àger meeting room
Resort Vall d'Àger gym
03

Web Design & Development

A complete rebuild of resortager.com, adapted to the new visual identity to elevate the resort's perception. Booking journey wired directly into the reservation system.

resortager.com
Resort Vall d'Àger homepage hero
MÄO Operations 05

CRM × Booking, fully integrated.

We rebuilt the online guest journey end to end, from the moment of booking to check-out, to elevate every touchpoint of the experience. A personalised, automated chain of messages lifts the operational work that used to live in someone's hands and turns it into a system that runs on its own.

CRM Customer Journey Email Marketing Google Reviews
Sources Web direct Booking.com Email marketing SEO & organic Social media Meta & Google ads Referral Booking engine Reservations MÄO Resort CRM Unified guest journey Customer journey Valley activities Email · 5 days before Check-in reminder WhatsApp · day before Post-stay review WhatsApp · 24h after
06

The Growth Engine

A communication and conversion strategy brings new audiences to the resort. An automated customer journey carries every guest from booking to checkout, ending with a Google review. Retention takes over from there, so they come back, season after season.

SEO / GEO Meta Ads Customer Journey Email Marketing Google Reviews
growth engine Reach Influence Convert Retain
Impact

What changes when the system runs.

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Resort occupancy at peak season
Repositioning, integrated marketing engine and automated guest journey lifted bookings across every unit. The resort runs above 90% occupancy in peak.
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Guest journey, automated end to end
From booking confirmation to post-stay review prompt, every touchpoint runs on autopilot. Email and WhatsApp, Catalan-first, in the brand voice. Reviews included.
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Marketing & performance, integrated under one roof
Strategy, brand, content, automation and growth, all run by MÄO as the resort's external marketing department. One team, one calendar, one voice.
Resort Vall d'Àger hotel
Resort Vall d'Àger entrance
Resort Vall d'Àger dining area
Resort Vall d'Àger restaurant
Resort Vall d'Àger gym
Resort Vall d'Àger meeting room
Resort Vall d'Àger football pitch
Resort Vall d'Àger bungalow concept
Resort Vall d'Àger detail
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