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== <font color="green">Welcome to the Emerald Forest Hotel</font color="green">==
This platform will assist you in managing the [http://www.emeraldforesthotel.com/site/ Emerald Forest Hotel]. Our hotel is a bit outdated, and we’re counting on you to make it a better place to stay. We’ve recorded a message for you.
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|Column 2 text=<center>'''Word of welcome by [[Christina Bergman]], owner of the Emerald Forest Hotel'''<br>
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"I would kindly like to welcome you all to this training program for new hotel management! I'm pleased to see that you are interested in our vacancies. My name is [[Christina Bergman]]: my family and I used to run the Emerald Forest Hotel, a nice and cozy hotel with 100 rooms. We are in urgent need of new management insights, creative ideas for our hotel! As you seem interested, we offer this platform and several social media sites to support you as the new management team<!---with over '''''{{NUMBEROFPAGES}} pages'''''--->. Using the search box, the top-right hand might come handy if in need of any information. <br>You, as well as a number of other candidates have the unique opportunity to show you can do better than we did in recent years. I and my staff will surely keep an eye on you and via social media. Coaches are trained to support you. I wish you all good luck in achieving profit and in your creativity!"</i><br><br><br>
Want to see the promotion video? Check [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaKe-dhZMKY promo Emerald Forest Hotel] or check all management teams ever running my hotel in the overview of all [[All_concepts|ideas, and concepts]] so far or pictures shot:  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/79317761@N02/sets/ just click here]. 
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== Welcome ==__NOEDITSECTION__
This platform is part of the extended management training program: "Emerald Forest Hotel". Interested in joining this concept of "real virtuality"? Look in [[joining the game]]. We are working on the latest release of the total of the simulation: version 5.0.


== Hello [https://www.hogeschoolrotterdam.nl/ Rotterdam University of a.s.] ==__NOEDITSECTION__
You are now part of a new Management Team tasked with taking over the Emerald Forest Hotel. Your mission is to manage the hotel, enhance its current operations, and deliver significant improvements compared to previous years. You will have access to last year's performance results and the decisions that shaped them, providing a valuable reference point. Remember, you are competing against other Management Teams who share the same starting position. This is your opportunity to showcase your skills in management, creativity, finance, and marketing, with guidance from your coaches. Seize this chance to stand out!
We are happy to hear that we might get new, innovative input from students at Rotterdam University of a.s. So a special welcome!
<center>[[Image:rotterdam_small.png|250px]]. When your competition is available it will be visible [[Game_29NL_home|here, competition 29NL]] </center>


== Hello [https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ John Moores University]==__NOEDITSECTION__
== <font color="green">All information</font color="green">==
Als in the UK we are getting support from students at John Moores University Liverpool. So a special welcome as well!
On this platform, you’ll find a wealth of information to help you understand the hotel's operations, including financial data like the operating review, as well as guidance on managing the hotel and making strategic decisions. Be sure to explore the main menu on the left (or tap the three bars at the top left if you’re on mobile). Have you seen our hotel's website? It's not in the best shape right now, but we encourage you to take a look nonetheless, [https://www.emeraldforesthotel.com click here to visit the Emerald Forest Hotel website].
<center>[[Image:liverpool_small.jpg|250px]]. When your competition is available it will be visible [[Game_28UK_home|here, competition 28UK]]</center>


Done? You first step here, will be checking the pages from the menu:
* [[Introduction to Hotel]] and
* [[Introduction Game play]]
Now that you have a clear understanding of the hotel, you’re ready to begin the competition. Review the menu again, and click on <i>Join a Game, choose your competition </i> to get started!


<center><I>Good luck and thanks you all for helping the Emerald Forest Hotel! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-jandal-a226ba186/ Jill Jandal], CEO of the Emerald Forest Hotel.</I>
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== Competition in Breda at Breda University of applied sciences (Netherlands) has ended==__NOEDITSECTION__
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Congrats to the winning teams, especially
== <font color="green">Thank you Teams from Hotel Management at BUAS!</font color="green">==
* On profit Woody's Hotel (Amstelburg) and overall OceanHop Hotel (Kingsglade)
Your competition [[Game 55NL home|Game 55NL]] has ended. Thank you for running my hotel and making it a better place to stay! We have seen some amazing concepts and presentation. A shout out to the coaches as well, helping you in this pressure cooker. Hope to see you around in hospitality, it's a small world.
* On creativity The 7 Realms (Copenstadt) and overall  El Corazon de Geopodo (Geopodo)
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The after-movie will be available in another week. Pictures are on Flickr.
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== <font color="green">Welcome University of Split!</font color="green">==
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We truly hope to welcome [https://www.efst.unist.hr/en/ to see the University of Split] as a new partner, running the Emerald Forest Hotel! Croatia will offer yet another interesting perspective to the simulation and all of it's participants. We are ready to take on the challenge, are you?
|Column 1 text=''Recap of competition in Breda 2019'':<br>
[[Image:Split logo.jpg|thumb|300px|left|alt= University of Split joining Emerald Forest Hotel||<i><center><code>University of Split</code></I></center>]]
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== What can this training do for you? ==__NOEDITSECTION__
== <font color="green">Welcome University of the West Indies!</font color="green">==
The Emerald Forest is a unique learning opportunity, offering the possibility to work on (business) management skills in a modern, attractive way, completely online way.  The simulation consists of much more than just this platform and has been played by more than 10.000 participants. <br>
We hope [https://www.uwi.edu/ to see the University of the West Indies] as a new partner, running the Emerald Forest Hotel! <br>
The management skills to demonstrate should focus on:
The perspective of the West Indies would be a valuable addition to the range of viewpoints already represented in the simulation.
* Creativity, commercial calculating, managerial capacities and promotional skills.
[[Image:Jamaica logo.jpg|thumb|300px|left|alt= University of the West Indies joining Emerald Forest Hotel||<i><center><code>University of the West Indies</code></I></center>]]
The Emerald Forest Hotel is an international management simulation with a strong realistic story-line combined with an attractive competition based on profit and on creativity. You can use the Emerald Forest Hotel simulation under one of our licenses: check [[Joining the game|Joining the Emerald Forest Hotel simulation]]
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Each hotel get it's own private dashboard with results, each year, as in this example: <br>
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== Competition in Breda at [https://www.buas.nl/ENG.html BUas (former NHTV)] has ended! ==__NOEDITSECTION__
== <font color="green">Welcome to Abu Dhabi Hospitality Academy Les Roches</font color="green">==
Congratulations to all the winning teams. And especially to the overall winning teams:
We hope [https://lesroches.edu/campuses/abu-dhabi/ to see Les Roches Abu Dhabi] soon, as one of our new partner, running the Emerald Forest Hotel! <br>
* Creativity The Happy Otter
[[Image:LesRoches logo.jpg|thumb|300px|left|alt= Les Roches joining Emerald Forest Hotel||<i><center><code>Les Roches Hospitality Academy</code></I></center>]]
* On profit The Grammable Hotel
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<br>Pictures of the Final available on [https://www.flickr.com/photos/79317761@N02/albums/72157694549474842 Flickr] <br>
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== Competition in Tallinn at [https://www.ttu.ee/en TuT] has finished! ==__NOEDITSECTION__
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The competition [[Game_24EE_home|in Tallinn]] has ended: thank you all so much for joining. <br>
== <font color="green">Thank you, Management Teams from BUAS-Breda!</font color="green">==
We've seen some true entrepreneurs and creativity. The Emerald Forest Hotel hotel is like a roller coaster: congrats to all teams who stayed aboard. But especially the winning teams
The latest competition at [https://www.buas.nl/en/programmes/hotel-management BUAS, Breda University of Hospitality and Facility Management] has concluded. A big shout-out to all the participating teams and coaches—it has been a pleasure working with you. Congratulations to Management Teams, on winning the 'Golden Bell' award as the finale of the Emerald Forest Hotel simulation.
* Hotel Hunt 
[[Image:goldenbell 2024.jpg|thumb|300px|left|alt= BUAS winning Team Emerald Forest Hotel||<i><center><code>The Golden Bell Award</code></I></center>]]
* StayWiser Hotel!
Congratulations to
Both with a Grand Slam in the competition on entrepreneurship and creativity! Very well done.
* Public award winnning team, Hotel Malia
* Jury award winning team, Evergreen resort
Thanks to all the Management Teams, the coaches and the jury Michel Brokke, Geertje Klijn, Joost van der Minne and Jeroen Vinkesteijn. It has been very interesting!
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== <font color="green">A special thank you, to all our partners, so far!</font color="green">==
A big shout-out to all participants and to our partners from previous years—the Management Teams, with a special thanks to the enthusiastic coaches.
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<li>[https://www.rotterdamuas.com/ Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences] (Netherlands)
<li>[https://www.ku.de/ Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt] (Germany)
<li>[https://www.bcu.ac.uk/ Birmingham City University](UK)
<li>[https://www.ucll.be/en UCLL University] (Belgium0
<li>[https://taltech.ee/en Tallinn University of Technology] (Estonia)
<li>[https://va.lv/en/ Vidzeme University A.S.](Latvia)
<li>[https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ Liverpool John Moores University] (UK)
<li>[https://www.uni-vt.bg/eng/ St. Cyril & St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo] (Bulgaria)
<li>[https://www.ku.de/ Katholische Universität Eichstätt Ingolstadt](Germany)
<li>[https://www.buas.nl/en BUAS Breda University a.s.] (Netherlands)
<li>[https://karlsuniversity.de/ Karlshochschule International university](Germany)
<li>[https://www.thomasmore.edu/ Thomas More University a.s.] (Belgium)
<li>and others!</li>
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<BR>Want to join? Check [[Joining the game]]
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== Sponsor  ==
== <font color="green">Horecava Trade fair</font color="green">==
We are looking for an international hotel chain to join the game as a sponsor. We offer you a modern platform which lots of linked media and an interesting group of users, mainly working or about to work in hospitality industry. Interested? Check the page [[sponsor]].
Another inspiring week, as we visited the Horeca Trade Fair in Amsterdam, as we do every year. Getting inspired by nice demonstrations, many new ideas, coffee and some drinks, meeting up with our partners and friends and new business contacts.  
 
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== A proud HSMAI member ==__NOEDITSECTION__
Wednesday 29th of March at Amsterdam RAI the [https://www.hftp.org/hitec/amsterdam/ HITEC]: Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference took place. This is in combination with [http://hsmai-europe.com/ HSMAI] Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference. Emerald Forest Hotel staff has visited both conferences. We are delighted to tell, that we have been chosen one of the nominees for the prestigious HSMAI - awards. Though we didn't win we are proud of our nomination and special recognition!
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== Competition in Breda has ended==__NOEDITSECTION__
The competition [[Game_21NL_home|in Breda]] has ended. Congratulations to all the winning teams! <br>
In a few days a wrap-up movie will be available. Check all pictures on [https://www.flickr.com/photos/79317761@N02/albums Flickr]
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!colspan="5"|Winning teams per city
!colspan="2" |Horecava 2025
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| '''City'''
| [[Image:brinks coffee roasters emerald forest hotel.jpg|thumb|150px|left|[https://www.brinkscoffeeroasters.nl Brinks Coffee Roasters, new coffee standard]]]
| '''Winning on creativity'''
| [[Image:culi quiz emerald forest hotel.jpg|thumb|150px|left|[https://www.culiquiz.nl CuliQuiz learning by Gamification]]]
| '''Winning on net profit'''
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| -01- Amstelburg
| [[Image:vertical farming emerald forest hotel.jpg|thumb|150px|left|[https://vegger.nl Green Vertical Farming]]]
| Le Chef Hotel & Restaurant
| [[Image:digital kitchen emerald forest hotel.jpg|thumb|150px|left|[https://www.rational-online.com/en_us/products/ Digital kitchen equipment]]]
| Le Chef Hotel & Restaurant
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| -02- Budano
| Stay2Gather
| Stay2Gather
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| -03- Copenstadt
| Oak Leaf resort & Spa
| Oak Leaf resort & Spa
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| -04- Dreskovski
| The Tourmaline
| Retro Tribe
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| -05- Efemada
| The Green Diamond
| B'ECO
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| -06- Geopodo
| Hotel4Scapes
| Stay Healthy
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| -07- Hadique
| Avin Hotel
| The Green Clover
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| -08- Jinanang
| The World Tour Hotel
| Tree Paradise Hotel
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| -09- Kingsglade
| Sanus Hotel
| Kizazi Y Hotel
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| -10- La Palz
| The Boomerang Hotel
| Green Paradise Hotel
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The overall winning teams are: <br>
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* On creativity: The Green Paradise Hotel
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* On net profit: The Tourmaline
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Congratulations!
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== All new hotel concepts == __NOEDITSECTION__
All concepts that have been developed by the participants from over 20 countries in this management simulation are summarized on the page [[All concepts| all new hotel concepts]]. Starting from this page, you can navigate to every new hotel concept.<br>
Or check [[:Category:Emerald forest finished teams|what other teams have done so far!]]
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<td><center>''Stay tuned: <u>live</u> tweets on #hotel''</center></td>
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== Release and copyrights[[:Category:Emerald forest finished teams|.]]== __NOEDITSECTION__
If you are using this simulation, be sure to read the page [[disclaimer]]. Be sure when working on this program that whatever you post, you are allowed to post that specific item without copyright infringements[[Special:RecentChanges|.]] The Emerald Forest Hotel simulation is actively monitored, but as the entire simulation is always "in progress", it is hard to oversee all of the changes and its impacts on all media. All postings are, for that matter, the individual responsibility of the editor of that specific piece of content, also on social media[[Special:WhatLinksHere|!]] <br>
If, by any means, you ended up on this website and think that some elements of the content offend your rights in any way, please contact us and we will respond: emeraldforesthotel at gmail.com. For details on usage of the platform ([[IP]]) please check the page [[copyright]] on this platform or contact us[[:Category:Sysop:Overview|.]] <br>
 
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Latest revision as of 08:55, 29 August 2025

In response to popular demand, we are conducting an upgrade of the game. The new version 10.0 is scheduled for release by the Decemer 2025. Please note that, as a result, this version may occasionally be offline or experience some instability.



Welcome to the Emerald Forest Hotel

This platform will assist you in managing the Emerald Forest Hotel. Our hotel is a bit outdated, and we’re counting on you to make it a better place to stay. We’ve recorded a message for you.

Welcome on behalf of the Emerald Forest management!

You are now part of a new Management Team tasked with taking over the Emerald Forest Hotel. Your mission is to manage the hotel, enhance its current operations, and deliver significant improvements compared to previous years. You will have access to last year's performance results and the decisions that shaped them, providing a valuable reference point. Remember, you are competing against other Management Teams who share the same starting position. This is your opportunity to showcase your skills in management, creativity, finance, and marketing, with guidance from your coaches. Seize this chance to stand out!

All information

On this platform, you’ll find a wealth of information to help you understand the hotel's operations, including financial data like the operating review, as well as guidance on managing the hotel and making strategic decisions. Be sure to explore the main menu on the left (or tap the three bars at the top left if you’re on mobile). Have you seen our hotel's website? It's not in the best shape right now, but we encourage you to take a look nonetheless, click here to visit the Emerald Forest Hotel website.

Done? You first step here, will be checking the pages from the menu:

Now that you have a clear understanding of the hotel, you’re ready to begin the competition. Review the menu again, and click on Join a Game, choose your competition to get started!

Good luck and thanks you all for helping the Emerald Forest Hotel! Jill Jandal, CEO of the Emerald Forest Hotel.


Thank you Teams from Hotel Management at BUAS!

Your competition Game 55NL has ended. Thank you for running my hotel and making it a better place to stay! We have seen some amazing concepts and presentation. A shout out to the coaches as well, helping you in this pressure cooker. Hope to see you around in hospitality, it's a small world.


Welcome University of Split!

We truly hope to welcome to see the University of Split as a new partner, running the Emerald Forest Hotel! Croatia will offer yet another interesting perspective to the simulation and all of it's participants. We are ready to take on the challenge, are you?

University of Split joining Emerald Forest Hotel
University of Split

Welcome University of the West Indies!

We hope to see the University of the West Indies as a new partner, running the Emerald Forest Hotel!
The perspective of the West Indies would be a valuable addition to the range of viewpoints already represented in the simulation.

University of the West Indies joining Emerald Forest Hotel
University of the West Indies

Welcome to Abu Dhabi Hospitality Academy Les Roches

We hope to see Les Roches Abu Dhabi soon, as one of our new partner, running the Emerald Forest Hotel!

Les Roches joining Emerald Forest Hotel
Les Roches Hospitality Academy


Thank you, Management Teams from BUAS-Breda!

The latest competition at BUAS, Breda University of Hospitality and Facility Management has concluded. A big shout-out to all the participating teams and coaches—it has been a pleasure working with you. Congratulations to Management Teams, on winning the 'Golden Bell' award as the finale of the Emerald Forest Hotel simulation.

BUAS winning Team Emerald Forest Hotel
The Golden Bell Award

Congratulations to

  • Public award winnning team, Hotel Malia
  • Jury award winning team, Evergreen resort

Thanks to all the Management Teams, the coaches and the jury Michel Brokke, Geertje Klijn, Joost van der Minne and Jeroen Vinkesteijn. It has been very interesting!

A special thank you, to all our partners, so far!

A big shout-out to all participants and to our partners from previous years—the Management Teams, with a special thanks to the enthusiastic coaches.


Want to join? Check Joining the game


Horecava Trade fair

Another inspiring week, as we visited the Horeca Trade Fair in Amsterdam, as we do every year. Getting inspired by nice demonstrations, many new ideas, coffee and some drinks, meeting up with our partners and friends and new business contacts.

Horecava 2025
Brinks Coffee Roasters, new coffee standard
CuliQuiz learning by Gamification
Green Vertical Farming
Digital kitchen equipment



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