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Cedar Fair Entertainment Company

Continuing Brand Awareness Throughout Your Residential Processes

Learn how Cedar Fair uses the Multi Theme URL solution which allows customers to generate a unique URL for each brand/theme across their Portals.

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Innovative

Create and design

Agile

Quick and Easy

Unique

Stand out messaging

Fluid

Messaging and branding

Region

Great Lakes, USA

Industry

Staff Housing

Beds

5,800

Active Since

2015

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Cedar Fair Entertainment Company is one of the largest, regional amusement park operators in the United States and Canada. Cedar Fair was StarRez’s first non-higher education customer, utilizing the StarRez platform to innovate their staff housing across 7 of their parks. They initially went live with their flagship park, Cedar Point, which houses 3,200 residents during their summer season operations and whilst they continue to implement StarRez across their remaining sites which off housing.

Cedar Fair collectively hires 40,000+ associates across all of their parks each summer. Being the second largest J-1 international student host in the US, bringing around 2,500 students from 40 different countries to work each year, housing is a high priority for Cedar Fair and ensuring that all workers have a place to stay is essential to their operations.

Cedar Fair’s parks each have their own brand, look, and feel while still having a corporate structure. Cedar Fair wanted the StarRez multi-theme URL solution to be implemented across their 7 sites that offer housing so residents visiting their PortalX site would see and interact with the brand of the park they work and live at.

“With having a different theme for each park, we can route users based on the park theme to customize the experience for our residents. When residents access the Portal, we have the reassurance they are navigating their specific brand based on values in the database, such a category ID, or even based on the site theme they are navigating.”

Richard Miller - Business Support Analyst – Cedar Fair

Implementation

The Multi theme URL was implemented by Cedar Fair’s super user in collaboration with their in-house marketing team to ensure that all of the correct graphics, colors schemes and logos were used. They then set up vanity/short URLs so that users could use a simple URL to be redirected to their themed site.

“Overall, the implementation process was very simple. Multi Theme URL is small but mighty!”

Richard Miller - Business Support Analyst – Cedar Fair

Anyone who has multiple properties, locations or campuses would benefit from the Multi Theme URLs. Being able to change logo’s or colors on the portal to match different sites or operations is simple but highly effective and provides a more friendly atmosphere as well as a connection to the specific brand that’s represented.