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Welcome to the Emerald Forest Hotel!

This is the homepage of your simulation in Rotterdam, called 29NL, March 2020. English is meant as a way of communication so the texts might not always be totally correct. All of the content is in English as this is an international hotel.

What is the game?

You all take over the Emerald Forest Hotel as a management team. You have to run the hotel, trying to do better than has been done in the past. Last year's decisions and results, the history, are available as a point of reference.The hotels are located in your own country, so the Netherlands, in a number of (fictitious) cities. Each city consists of approx. ten hotels. Your direct, or main competitors are the other hotels in your city.
Christina Bergman and her CEO Jill Jandal give you the task to take over the Emerald Forest Hotel. So, from a distance, hey will follow the developments as well.

What are the goals?

Te task you have when taking over the hotel, is to do better then before. The existing and realistic dates of Emerald Forest Hotel offer the possibility to apply management skills and knowledge. Learning goals are:

Working in a large amount of data and finding the right data as a team
Working on the competence creativity and communication by doing assignments.
Running your own management team in a pleasant and businesslike way.
Behaving like entrepreneurs: handling uncertainty, finding solutions, excepting failures
Acting like entrepreneur in real-life situations.

You will do by managing the hotel in the following ways:

Making assignments during a number of years;
Explaining why and how you do things;
Live-actions in the game;
Taking into account the competitions, real live and other things happening during the competition.

Communication

This platform is where you can find documentation on many elements linked to your hotel.
We will use Facebook group 29NL a platform to profile your hotel: so join as soon as possible!
We ask one members of each group to join the Whastapp group, supporting the total of the game.
There is modules in the study program related to the game, as we will explain.
Most important contact point might be your coach.

Your coaches

You are working with approx. 4 persons in a management team. Approx. 10 teams together are a so called city. Each city will be guided by it's own coach, as much as possible.

Coach and cities
City name-number	Coach	Code	e-Mail	Class
-01- Amstelburg	Team A01 t/m A09	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx
-02- Budano	Team B01 t/m B09	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx
-03- Copenstadt	Team C01 t/m C09	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx
-04- Dreskovski	Team D01 t/m D09	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx
-05- Efemada	Team E01 t/m E08	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx
-06- Geopodo	Team G01 t/m G08	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx
-07- Hadique	Team H01 t/m H07	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx
-08- Jinanang	Team J01 t/m J07	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx
-09- Kingsglade	Team K01 t/m K10	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx
-10- La Palz	Team L01 t/m L10	xxx	VSG	xx@rdam.nl	Pxx

Your marks

All of this is evaluated each playing year by the coaches, in assessing your creativity and entrepreneurship. These two elements are basic in bringing your hotel occupancy rate, which means revenues and hopefully profit.
You will also get some (limited) feedback from your coach on each year.

Each round your work will have tasksk, which will be evaluated by your coaches: on the element of entrepreneurship as well as creativity. This brings 16 evaluations which will be published after the total of the module and on an average bring your final mark for the game. During the game, you will get coach comments, are the quality of your work will heavily influence your hotel's result and ranking though. Marks are individual, but very likely in many cases will be the same for all team members.

Marking in the game
Year	Entrepreneurship mark	Task	Creativity mark	Task
Week 01	1-10	01.1	1-10	01.2
Week 02	1-10	02.1	1-10	02.2
Week 03	1-10	03.1	1-10	03.2
Week 04	1-10	04.1	1-10	04.2
Week 5 holiday
Week 06	1-10	06.1	1-10	06.2
Week 07	1-10	07.1	1-10	07.2
Week 08	1-10	08.1	1-10	08.2
Week 09	1-10	09.1	1-10	09.2
A total of 16 assignments

Organisation of the module

We strongly recommend all of you to be present at every scheduled moment. There are

city meetings (with your coach) as well as
'meet your team' sessions (only with your team). These 'meet your team' time-slots are scheduled so that all members of the teams can be present: please do so.
week evaluations with your city

Remember that you are entrepreneurs during all of the weeks. So keep your social media, website, and activities alive. So apart from your decisions and their deadlines, you can always work on the other elements.
So what to do first? Do the tasks underneath step by step.

Tasks to be done in week 1 deadline Friday xx at 12.00 noon

* Task 1: Classes
Visit the central kick-off with all the other management teams: you will get instructions from the owners Christina Bergman or CEO Jill Jandal. And there will be information from xxxxx guest lecturer hospitality industry etc..

You will receive team information regarding the competition:

the team members with whom you will be the management of the hotel. The sooner you meet, the better
the team number of your hotel. This will look like 29NL-A01
your competition is the 29th competition in Rotterdam, the Netherlands so NL. Your team number for instance A01
your hotel is located in a city starting with letter A, which is the fictitious city of Amstelburg, B stands for Budano etc. which all are cities in the Netherlands.
your hotel is hotel number 01 (out of approx. ten hotels in your city, which are your competitors)
a (printed out) secret link will be handed-out at the first city meeting with your coach. With this link, you'll have access to your hotels' so-called Team document: the most important file. This is the document in which you present your assignments and the new plans of your hotel.

The link will look like ''https://goo.gl/L4cABC'' and is case sensitive.

Keep this link private and secret! Inside this Team Document, you will also find (for your eyes only):

your revenues
your profit
your ranking on entrepreneurship
your ranking on creativity
few remarks of your coach

Schedule for this week:
> .....Central kick-off
> ..... City meeting (see schedule)
> ......Meet your team (see schedule)
> .... week evaluations, consultancy hour per city (see schedule): use this session for questions, suggestions, help etc.
> During all of the week-weekend: a company doesn't close at certain hours: keep the communication on your hotel 'alive'

* Task 2: 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 organised. So try to work together on a professional basis, but do keep everybody to his/her tasks. If a person doesn't show up or doesn't perform as required act immediately! You need to set-up a team-contract in your Team document.

* Task 3: Study Introduction to Hotel
Study this Introduction to Hotel: here you will find the ten pages you need to read on the hotel, the history and the situation as you take over.

* Task 4: Study Introduction Game play
Study this Introduction Game play: here you will find the ten pages you need to read on what you can do as new management team

* Task 5: Join the Facebook and WhatsApp group
Go to Facebook group 29NL and request to join the group. You can join with more members, or even with a (personal) hotel page (though officially not allowed).
Out of each team, we suggest, one member to represent the team in a WhatsApp group. This is the first line of additional help during the game.

* Assignment 0 on entrepreneurship
Organizing your new management Team

* Assignment A1 on entrepreneurship
New name strategy target groups.

* Assignment C1 on creativity
Logo house style and slogan.