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Welcome to the Emerald Forest Hotel!

This is the homepage of your simulation in Karlsruhe called 15DE, February 2016. You have to run your hotel, trying to do better then has been done in the past. Last years decisions and results are available as a point of reference. The hotel is located in your own country in two fictitious cities called Amstelburg and Budano. Each city is holding ten hotels, so there are 20 hotels (management teams) in total. Your main competitors are the teams/hotels in your own city.

You manage the hotel by:

• making decisions on prices, decisions on expenses;
• explaining why and how you do things;
• running your communications, website and social media in a proper way;
• live-actions during the game.

All of this is evaluated each playing round by the coaches, in a creativity and entrepreneurship mark. These marks, together with your decisions, the activities of your competitors and some other elements like the demand in the market, are used to calculate your results. You will recognize this in the occupation rate of your hotel, the profit, lots of ratio's, and a complete operating review.
To get grip on things we split up your managing the hotel in a number of tasks, which you will do in the four 'years' you manage the hotel.
This platform contains all the information about the hotel: you can navigate to the information needed: all blue links are clickable and will bring you to another page inside of this platform. For instance clicking on Photos and videos will jump to this page with photos and videos of the hotel. All blue links with a small arrow will open a new tab in your browser with an internet site outside of this platform: for instance hospitality trends 2016 or more hotel trends in 2016 or download the AF&CO Trendreport 2016 (will take a minute).

Use real sources in all your decisions, like:

• hospitality report Deloitte 2015 or an interesting page as well: real statistics of hotels in Europe.
• Very interesting site with loads of information on hospitality and hotels: HTrends
• Local information, as your hotel is located in the country you are in.
• An indication for costs on inventory etc. is the file estimating hotel costs. Do not focus to much on details: this is a price list from 2013 but it does give you some indication on what costs might be. Try to be realistic, but as in reality 'how much does it cost' depend on so many things and is not easy to answer. And don't be penny-wise and pound foolish!
  

The navigation left-hand site will always stay active: and you can use back in your browser. The search box top right-hand corner works very well: rather use Search then Go for better results"look or specific words and there might be a page on this. Or try info pages from the left-hand menu. By now there is 3,964 pages in this platform, so if you're new, follow the steps preventing you from getting lost. First, some tweets and pictures related to your game, then your tasks.

Always check the news: latest news always on top

February, 2.

Welcome to the platform, all international teams in Karlsruhe! Because of server settings, the time on this platform is half an hour late: this has no influence on nothing else. Deadlines are as in your timezone. Do use Category:Hotel info for all content information and Help:Contents for technical issues etc. Information not found there, missing something? Visit the Facebook group 15DE - Emerald Forest Hotel. Or check @EFhotel on Twitter or HotelEmeraldForest on Instagram. Use the hashtag #15DE everywhere. Good luck to you all! Photos of your Trade Fair #15DE Karlsruhe 2016. Check all pictures on Flickr Photos of your Trade Fair #15DE Karlsruhe 2016. Check all pictures on Flickr

Your tasks during the entire game

So what to do first? Do the tasks underneath step by step.
In time the simulation is divided in two parts:

• week 5: with tasks to be done before the game week starts;
• week 6: with tasks to be done during the game week, starting xxth of February. In this game week all team members must be available all of the time.
  
  

Your tasks before the game week starts, so before 1st of February

First check in six minutes the main explanation of all of the elements in this simulation :

You will receive team information from your coaches on:

• the teamnumber of your hotel, which is also the username (login name) on this platform. This will look like 15DE-A02:
  • so your competition (15DE is the 15th competition in Karlsruhe Germany -DE-) your team number A02
  • so your hotel is located in a city starting with letter A, which is the city of Amstelburg of B which is Budano.
  • Your hotel is hotel number 02 (out of ten hotels, which are all your competitors).
• you'll get a team password for editing your hotels' teampage on this platform. This password will look like ve7r99 and is case sensitive. You will get this probably on 01/02. But without you already can do a lot of preparations.
  
• you'll also get a (secret) hyperlink to your teams private sheet where you make your decisions and can see your own results. You will get this probably on 01/02. But without you already can do a lot of preparations. This link will look like: http://www.emeraldforesthotel.com/ve7r99
  

The example shows the team information from a finished competition in Latvia:

With this information you can start meeting with your team, dividing the tasks, checking out this platform etc. Make sure you have your team well organised and the tasks well divided.

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Week 5: before the game week starts these next tasks must have been finished

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• Task 1: Meet with your team members
  

Plan meetings with your team to make preparations and plans for who is going to do what. Managing a hotel is having your team and hotel well organized.

So you are joining with your team, nice! Check the video with explanations on your competition:

• Task 2: Study E-manual
  

Study this E-manual: here you will find what you need to read before taking any action.
Login with your username, go to the top right-hand corner of this page, click "My Preferences" scroll a bit down until you see E-mail, E-mail options. Change this e-mail address in a real e-mail address of one of your team members and use the save button at the bottom. This e-mail might comes handy in some cases. Do not change the password or anything else in this section.

All team members can login using the same username: multiple users at the same time with the same username is no problem. To just read the content of this platform you don't need to login at all, by the way (only if you want to edit). If you look for information on any subject you can search with the searchbox top-righthand corner: click the GO-button for a special page on the searched-for item, or use the Search button which will show all pages where the search item is mentioned. No answer found? Ask your coaches.

• Task 3: First actions
  

After reading, discuss your strategic plans with regard to the hotel and come to a conclusion. First have a look at the example 15DE Example teampage. Then thinking of how to fill out your own teampage: this has to be ready entirely on Monday the 1th. Also check your private teamsheet using your secret hyperlink and fill out your chosen hotelname in the teamsheet there (cel B1) as soon as you have the inlogcodes! From time to time you might see that we have changed-helped you on lay-out or outlining.
A short instruction video on how to edit the teampage of your hotel in the Emerald Forest Hotel platform. This video is a bit longer, like 10 minutes. But you can skip things or scroll forwards. Open the video (which is on this platform) in a new browsertab: Help on editing your teampage. It takes some time to get grip on this editing, it is not WYSIWYG but, very, very stable. And, don't worry, editing your teampage is the only thing which might annoy you because of the unfriendly way it works. All other elements of this simulation are done in Facebook, Google docs and other platforms which are probably much more logical and user friendly :-)

• Task 4: Prepare Trade Fair
  

In the game week, your hotel will be presenting itself at a Trade Fair on Tuesday. So think this over well in time and prepare for the Trade Fair: check this page for more information. This is an important fair, one which will influence your success in the game. This offers you the opportunity to present your (new ideas on the) hotel. Be creative, and have a look at the pictures of Trade Fairs from other competitions. All team members must participate in the Trade Fair.
To make your appearance at the Trade Fair as useful as possible, your preparations on your teampage must be ready as far as possible (new logo, slogan, introduction of new management). So start thinking about this before the gameweek when things get hectic.

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Tasks during the game-week: 1th. February - 5th. February

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• Task 5 to 10

On the page 15DE Tasks and decisions you can find all tasks which are to be done during the game week, day by day.

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