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Welcome at the Emerald Forest Hotel!

This platform is part of the management training program of the Emerald Forest Hotel. Welcome in the 2023 version v0.7 of this hotel management game! This simulation, or game can, easily be made blended online and off-line, or, when needed, completely online. Interested in joining this concept of real virtuality? Check the page joining the game or contact the CEO Jill Jandal
Good luck and thanks to all joining, Jill Jandal, CEO of the Emerald Forest Hotel.

Have a look at the promo:

What can this simulation do for you?

Joining a Game? Choose your Game in the left-hand menu. 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. It is used by Universities, companies as well as training institutes all over Europe. Ideal for an international week (1-5 ECTS) of in any curriculum as a attractive course (4-10 ECTS). The simulation consists of much more than just this platform and has been played by more than 19,000 participants.
The management skills to demonstrate should focus on: creativity, commercial calculating, managerial capacities, and promotional skills. 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 Emerald Forest Hotel simulation. Hospitality happens to be the industry in the simulation, but it's also very useful in other industries or solely as a training aiming at management skills.

Game-based learning stimulates the frontal brain

Interesting and important studies on Game Based Learning by Kober e.a. showing the relevance and effectiveness of working with simulations or games. Also positive affect was reported to be higher while engaging in the game-based as compared to the non-game-based task version. These research results underscore the potential of game-based learning environments to promote more efficient learning by means of attention and reward up-tuning. Read the research paper here.

New release

A big shout-out to all joining in 2023, and to partners of the past years: the Management Teams as well as thanks to the enthusiastic coaches from:
Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands), Katholische Universitat Eichstatt-Ingolstadt (Germany), Birmingham City University (UK), UCLL University Belgium, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), Vidzeme University A.S. (Latvia), Liverpool John Moores University (UK), St. Cyril & St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria), Breda University (Netherlands), Karlshochschule International university (Germany), Thomas More University a.s. (Belgium) and others!

After movie

Just to give you an idea what the total of a (finished) game looks like in an ideal mix between live and online, check the video.

Wrap up of Game in Karlsruhe.

Content and upgrade

Joining a Game? Choose your Game in the left-hand menu. Looking for specific content? Check the options in the left-hand menu, or use the search box top right hand. Type in a relevant word and look for a page on this platform specifically on this word, or for pages containing this word.

Sponsor

Are you interested as an international hotel chain, to join the game as partner, user or 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. Check the page sponsor.

A proud HSMAI member

In Amsterdam RAI, each year the HITEC Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference takes place. The conferences is held in combination with HSMAI Hospitality Sales Marketing Association International. Emerald Forest Hotel management visits both conferences. We are delighted to tell, that we have been chosen one of the nominees for the prestigious HSMAI-awards (already by 2018). Though we didn't win, we are proud of our nomination and special recognition!

Release and copyrights

If you are planning to use this simulation, be sure to read the page disclaimer to understand the IP rights, related to this platform. 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 a specific editor of that specific piece of content, also on social media!
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 itself (IP), please check the page copyright or contact us.

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