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Welcome to the Emerald Forest Hotel!

This is the homepage of your simulation in Breda (17NL), April 2016. You have to manage your hotel, trying to do better then it has been done in the past. Last year's decisions and results are available as a point of reference. The hotel is located in your own country in fictitious cities, called Amstelburg, Budano, Copenstadt and Dreskovski. Each city is holding ten hotels, so there are 40 hotels (management teams) in total. Your direct or main competitors are only the teams/hotels in your 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.An indication for costs on inventory etc. A good starting point 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 he 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

April, 19-04

Welcome to the platform, all teams in Breda! Please use the hashtag #17NLBreda as explained We added some in new pages to the platform Be sure to be available during the entire period this is a very busy LA and courses are compulsory. Your exact schedule is available Questions on the game? Try to find answers on the platform first especially via Help and info pages on the hotel. Twitter has some major issues in selections based on hashtags, so this might not work properly in searching for #17NL rather #17NLBreda. But in Twitter itself things seem to work better. Be sure your account is public and don't spam. Good luck to you all! Information not found there, missing something? Visit the Facebook group 17NL - Emerald Forest Hotel and get invited. Things posted here will NOT appear on your 'private' timeline. Use the hashtag #17NLBreda everywhere. First photos of the 3 minutes. Check all pictures on Flickr Photos of Trade Fair 17NL in Breda. Check all pictures on Flickr

The coaches

The listing of the teamnumbers, the city's you are operating in and the name of the coaches per city are listed in the table below.

Team	City	Teamno's	Coach
A01 up to A09	Amstelburg	Teams A01-A09	Frank Essink
B01 up to B08	Budano	Teams B01-B08	Remco Wachelder
C01 up to C09	Copenstadt	Teams C01-C09	Joppe Curvers
D01 up to D09	Dreskovski	Teams D01-D09	Jeroen Vinkesteijn

All of the content of the simulation is in English. Elements allowed in Dutch (English is always okay): the explanations form, Trade Fair addressing customers in your booth and your 3 minutes of fame and asking questions during the game. The financial assignment to be finished 1th of May.,
Elements compulsory in English: the rest. So all social media elements, the teampage in the platform, promotions and all the rest.

Your tasks

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

• tasks to be done before and in week 16;
• tasks to be done during week 17 and 18 until the finals and in week 18 after the finals.

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

You will receive team information regarding the game:

• the teammembers with whom you will be the management of the hotel. The sooner you meet, the better.
• the teamnumber of your hotel, which is also the username (login name) on this platform. This will look like 17NL-A02:
  • so your competition (17NL is the 10th competition in Breda, Netherlands) your team number for instance A02
  • so your hotel is located in a city starting with letter A, which is the fictitious city of Amstelburg. There is four cities.
  • your hotel is hotel number 02 (out of ten hotels in your city, which are 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'll also get a (secret) hyperlink to your private teamsheet (a spreadsheet) 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 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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During week 16 the next tasks must have been finished

• Task 1: Classes

Visit the classes offered to support the total of the game. Especially the kick-off, Monday the 13th at 09.30 and the meeting afterwards (10.30 - 11.30) with your coach and other hotels in your city are essential and compulsory.

• Task 2: Meet with your team members
  

Plan meetings with your team to make preparations and plans for who is going to do what. The teams are made randomly, so this is important. Managing a hotel is having your team and hotel well organized. So try to work together on a professional basis, but do keep everybody to his/her tasks. If a persons doesn't show up or doesn't perform as required act immediately!
So you are joining with your team, nice! Check the video with explanations on your competition:

• Task 3: 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-right-hand 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 4: Teampage
  

After reading, discuss your strategic plans with regard to the hotel and come to a conclusion. First have a look at the example 17NL Example teampage. Then start filling out your own teampage: this has to be ready entirely this week. Also check 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. You can use the Sandbox to practice some editing needed on your teampage.
A short instruction video on how to edit the teampage of your hotel in the Emerald Forest Hotel platform is available. 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 browser tab: Help on editing your teampage. Some additional details videos are available on Help:How to upload a photo and Help:How to make links

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 5: Prepare Trade Fair
  

In the game week, your hotel will be presenting itself at a Trade Fair on Monday the 20th. 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 before acting on the Trade Fair. You can do only small changes on your teampage afterwards.

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Tasks to be done in week 17 and 18

• Task 6 to 12

On the page 17NL Tasks and decisions you can find all tasks which are to be done during the rest of the game.

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