Nishant Jayaswal
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Case
03 of 16
Year
2023 – 24
Discipline
New brand launch
Geography
UK · UAE · ID · MY · IN

Sunday.

A premium hotel brand for the modern break.

Sunday started as an insight, not a brand brief.

The way people take breaks has changed. The two-week holiday is dying. What's growing — across every market we studied — is the weekend break. The Thursday-to-Sunday. The bank-holiday quick escape. The mid-quarter reset that lets someone go back to work slightly less broken than they left.

Sunday is the brand built for that behaviour. Not budget. Not luxury. Premium, specifically calibrated to the two-to-four-day break, in properties chosen and designed to help you actually decompress rather than perform decompression for Instagram.

Brand film
Sunday — the global film. The brand's international launch spot, tuned for the modern break and the guest who takes it.
Sunday Hotel isometric illustration — every room type, service, and hospitality touchpoint mapped across the property
Identity
The Sunday property, mapped. An isometric visualisation of what a Sunday Hotel actually contains — every room type, service, and hospitality touchpoint, held together by one brand system.
200+
Properties, and growing
9+
Countries on the same playbook
1
GTM playbook deployed across all

Most premium hospitality names try too hard. They reach for the exotic word, the invented word, the word that comes with a pronunciation guide. Sunday goes the other way.

It's the one day of the week almost every culture agrees means rest. It's what people are actually looking for. Naming the brand after the outcome, not the aesthetic, was the point.

The logotype and identity system reinforce that. Everything about Sunday is designed to feel like the pause, not the peak.

Naming the brand after the outcome, not the aesthetic, was the point.

Scaling to 200+ properties across nine countries is not a branding project. It's an operational one. The work my team did wasn't just the brand book — it was the launch playbook: how each new property gets from signed to open, in brand, on time, without the market team reinventing the process each time.

That playbook covered:

  • Property selection criteria — the eight things a building has to be before it can carry the Sunday flag
  • Naming architecture — how each property's name relates to its city and the mother brand
  • Signage, print, digital, and in-room asset templates
  • Launch PR and social kits per market
  • OTA listing standards and staff training modules
  • The first-30-days and first-90-days marketing plan for each new property

Sunday is a case study in premium brand-building at operator speed — the discipline of a hospitality group applied to the ambition of a hotel brand.

Sunday Hotels Instagram grid showing viral posts — millions of views across content promoting the brand
Social
The brand at play. Sunday Hotels' Instagram grid — viral posts pulling in 1M to 3.5M views, built around a distinct voice that treats the brand as a place worth talking about, not just a booking option.
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Sunday now sits as PRISM's premium flagship — the brand the group leads with when it's talking to a different kind of guest than the one who comes to OYO or Motel 6.

It's proof that a house-of-brands strategy works only if the individual brands are given room to be genuinely themselves. Sunday would not have worked as "OYO Premium." It works because it was built to stand on its own name, its own insight, and its own promise.

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