Explanations form

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What can you do?

In the game you have a number of possibilities to influence your hotel.

• The teampage whcih you have on this platform. On this teampage you present your strategy and the links to your social media. Anyone can read all on this platform. Only after loging-in you can edit your own teampage.
• Your teamsheet: only accessible with your private hyperlink, any hotel has its own. This is not visible on the platform. In this private section a hotel has its own teamsheet with:
  • tab 1 the decisions tab where you fill out your decisions on prices and expenses
    • in this tab a link to the explanations form to explain your decisions
  • tab 2 the results tab where your hotel finds its results after each year, only after releasing by your coach.
  • tap 3 for additional calculations which can be handy in some cases.
• The social media, websites etc. (which you should link to your teampage)
• Other live actions of your team: sometimes required, like the Trade Fair but maybe also at your own initiative.

We know look at the teampage. A version of the teamsheet with decisions and results as example is available at example teamsheet team Z01
You can not edit this example.
The requested explanantions form for this demo-team Z01 - not filled out - is available at: example team Z01 explanations

We know look at the explanations form, in which you explain extensively all your financial decisions each year.

Your hotels teamsheet is secured!

Look at the screenshot below: this is what you will see: your hotels private teamsheet.

Your teamsheet

This example is the teamsheet of a team with all of the years filled out. Of course if you start you will only see the prologue, (year 00), the history, filled out with decisions from the past.

Explanations in every year

All decisions in all years must be backed-up by explanations. In your teamsheet you will find the explanations form at decision 14 on the tab decisions.

Explanations form.

In this so called explanations form you explain very explicitly every year why you took the decisions your team took. Click on form of the year you want to explain and a Google doc file will open (looks like Word).

Explanations form.

You also fill out the decisions in numbers (euro's) as a back-up please do not forget. So the decisions are to be filled out in the teamsheet (tab decisions) AND in the explanations form. Make things smart, make calculations and refrain from general remarks like 'we think this is interesting'or 'a lower price bring more customers'. Give benchmarks and sources. Be sure to calculate with the new price to prove that if the new, lower (or higher) price works out, this will rise the occupancy rate and so the revenues. In the end this will bring more profit because.... and calculate this.
All your explanations will stay in this same document, which is a Google online text file. All your team members can work in the same file all of the years (even at the same moment). All you do is saved automatically all the time in this document there is no save button :-). You can easily put links and pictures (just be sure that they are not too much mb's!) in the file, do so if it contributes to your explanations.

If a year has passed, leave that section with explanations in: do not change it anymore and jump to next year. All of the years the questions asked are the same. Please put in (hyper)links to sources and for instance social media. The explanations form is also private to your team, keep that in mind.
The explanations form will look somewhat like the picture underneath. Keep in mind that the form you get might look a bit different.

File:Decisions explanations form page01.jpg Page 1 explanations form in which you explain the decisions taken.

File:Decisions explanations form textfile02.jpg Page 2 questions in the explanations form.

Your mark and occupancy

The explanations form is very important in every year because

• your occupancy (and profit) depend on your decisions but even more on your explanations in this form! This will be judged by your coach.
• the gameplay mark you get every year, depends heavily on these explanations as well.

Your explanations show that you are really managing the hotel in a proper, well-thought over manner. Leaving this out just means filling out numbers and guessing and will for sure bring down your occupancy and result in a low gameplay mark.

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