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Welcome to the Emerald Forest Hotel!

This is the homepage of your simulation in Karlsruhe called 09DE, February 2015. 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 a fictitious city called Amstelburg.

You should run the hotel by:

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

All of this is evaluated each year 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 emand in the market, are used in algorithms. This leads to your results: the occupation rate in your hotel and to the profit (we hope).
To get grip on things we have divided your managing the hotel in a number of tasks which we will explain in a minute.
In this platform you can navigate to the pages with information you need: all blue links are clickable and will bring you to another page. For instance clicking on Photos and videos will jump to this page with photos and videos of the hotel. The navigation left-hand site will always stay active: and you can use back in your browser. By now there is3,964 pages in this platform, so if you're new follow the steps preventing you from getting lost.
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 2015 or more hotel trends in 2015.

Use in all your decisions real sources and benchmarks like:

• hospitality report Deloitte 2015 or an interesting page as well: real statistics of hotels in Europe. Statistics to be updated January 2015.

First now some tweets and pictures related to your game, then your tasks.

Always check the news: latest news always on top

January the 3th.

Welcome to the platform, all international teams in Karlsruhe! Be sure to be available during the entire game week, Monday 2th. of February - Friday 6th. of February. Questions on your team(members), study or schedules? Please check your coaches-staff in Karlsruhe. Questions on the game? Try to find answers on the platform first especially via Help and info pages on the hotel. All new messages will be put on top. Information not found there, missing something? Use the shoutbox in the left-hand menu, only visible if you are logged in, or use Twitter with the hashtag #09DE. Good luck! Competition Karlsruhe-stream: use #09DE - or check Photos of last Trade Fair in Karlsruhe. Check all pictures on Flickr <twitterfeed height="350px" width="500px" font-size="12px" search_type="hash">09DE</twitterfeed>

The coaches

Template:Coaches 09DE All of the content of the simulation is in English, no elements are allowed in German.

Your tasks during the entire game

There is a lot of information on this platform: don't get "killed by information": so what to do first? Do the tasks underneath step by step.
Did you do the short tour yet? Check the video:

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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 2th 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 2th of February

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

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Only once you will receive team information from your coaches on, keep the content a secret and preserve it well:

• the teamnumber of your hotel, which is also the username (login name) on this platform. This will look like 09DE-A02:
  • so your competition (09DE is 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.
  • 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 will look like ve7r99 and is case sensitive.
  
• you'll also get a (secret) hyperlink to your teams private sheet where you make your decisions and can see your own results. This will look like http://www.emeraldforesthotel.com/ve7r99
  

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

With your team 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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Maybe handy to check this video on these required preparations:

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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.

• 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: with GO for a special page on the searched for item, or with button Search which will show all pages where this search item is mentioned. No answer found? Ask your coach or use the Shoutbox which is monitored by the 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 page: page 09DE Example teampage. Then start filling out your own teampage: this has to be ready entirely on Monday the 6th at 16.00. Have a look at your private teamsheet using your secret hyperlink and fill out your chosen hotelname in the teamsheet there (cel B1)!From time to time you might see that we have changed - helped you on lay-out or outlining. If important we will mark this for instance with: Changed as help by one of your coaches. You can delete this message by removing the tag coachhelp in the edit section of this page. . After this you can use the Sandbox to practice some editing.
Maybe handy to check this video on editing your teampage:

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• Task 4: Prepare Trade Fair
  

In the game week, your hotel will be presenting itself at a Trade Fair on Tuesday. So, before this week think this over 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 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: 2th. February - 6th. February

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• Task 5 to 10

On the page 09DE Tasks and decisions you can find all tasks which are to be done during the game week, day by day.

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