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Welcome to the Emerald Forest Hotel!

This is the homepage of your simulation in Breda, called 40NL. All of the content is in English as this is an international hotel.

What is the Game?

You and every member of your team are tasked with the take-over of the Emerald Forest Hotel as the new management team. You will manage the hotel, bring improvements to its current operations and deliver noticeable results when compared to prior years. Last year's performance results and its related decisions are being made available to you along with historical data, as a point of reference. This becomes the same starting point for all (other) teams.
Your hotel is located in the Netherlands, or anywhere in Europe, in a number of (fictitious) cities. In each city, multiple hotels (in most cases 8 to 10) are located. Your main competitors are the other existing hotels, within your city. CEO Jill Jandal and owner Christina Bergman want you to effectively manage the Emerald Forest Hotel. Your coaches will help you achieve this task; meanwhile, Jill and Christina will be following any developments along the way behind the scenes.

Jill Jandal, CEO of the Emerald Forest Hotel

Corona has changed the market

Of course, Corona has highly impacted the situation in hospitality in 2020, and still does. Some changes and situations are temporary, and the industry is likely to recover from that. There will also continue to be a number of structural changes, as a result of the pandemic. A large number of benchmarks and figures are only available for the full year of 2019. Of course, the year 2020 cannot be compared in any way with previous years. Neither will 2021, probably. However, it is precisely in these times, that creativity is needed and there is room for innovation and new initiatives.
As you will have experienced, this Game will run entirely online. Exactly how and where to work and visit online lectures, you will hear from your coaches.

What are the goals?

As the new management team, your main task when taking over the hotel, is to do better than your predecessors. The existing timeline and the set dates of the Emerald Forest Hotel offer the possibility to apply sound management skills and built knowledge thus far.
The learning goals entail that you and the team:

• Process and analyse a large amount of data and that you select and apply the right information that will successfully help you running the hotel;
• Work on assignments that will put into practice your developing skills, as so far acquired during the course of your studies;
• Run your own management team in a joyful and professional manner;
• Behave as skilled managers: dealing with uncertainties, finding solutions and learning from your own mistakes.

Consequently, you are expected to carry out your managerial duties and deliver the following:

• A set of assignments during the course of the game;
• Offering a strong and clear substantiation of each of your decisions and actions;
• Living up to the deadlines in a timely and punctual way, while continue acting adequately on new situations and challenges ahead;
• Creating a competitive position and strategy for your hotel.

Communication

This platform is your main source where you can find most documentation of the relevant elements of your hotel.
The Game will use 40NL Emerald Forest Hotel Facebook group as an additional platform to profile your hotel: so join as soon as possible! We also ask each management team to delegate one team member to join the WhatsApp group, which supports the process of the game itself. More on this later on.
Be aware that management has to deal with many uncertainties, and as such you will be confronted with a large amount of information along with many challenges. Managing a hotel may not be as easy as it appears. It is all part of the game. Your coach(es) will always be your first point of contact.

Coaches helping you out. In this year, regretfully, online

Your coaches

Each team consists of approximately approx. 5 students, whom you will be teaming up as the new management team. Each city will be guided by its own coach(es). The same structure will be used in MS Teams.

Teams and cities: your coaches via MS Team
City name	Teams	Coach
-01- Amstelburg	Team A01 t/m A10	xxx & yyy
-02- Budano	Team B01 t/m B10	xxx & yyy
-03- Copenstadt	Team C01 t/m C10	xxx & yyy

Decisions

Your entrepreneurial decisions and supporting explanations will have a major impact on the occupancy rate of your hotel and will influence your profit, next to the impact of the pricing you choose and costs your team decides to make. The game algorithms will process all of this information and calculate and provide you with the outcome, and rank your team accordingly in a competition.
The credits for this module will be awarded to you and your team, based on the assignments and the marks obtained during the game. Needless to say: having your team becoming familiar with all aspects of this hotel will enable you to get a better grip on the game and help you in bringing the assignments to a good end.

You'll find the timeline and assignments on the page 40NL Assignments and timeline.

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Emerald Forest Hotel offering an emerald hotel experience! | Run your own hotel in this management simulation.

>>>>> Most important changes

• tested and upgraded usability for participants and coaches in everything
• More attention to security of it all (back-ups, fire walls)
• Total upgraded the way Team File works
• Total upgraded the way Coach Sheet works
• Test for the coach on the Coach Spread and the team Files called city 'Zambaza' with a reset button
• New instruction course for the coaches (2 x 2 hours)
• More realistic content, new pages
• More visuals and video's of Jill
• Personalized welcome video of Jill
• We started a shop with assignments (link not public)
• Upgrade navigation for participants on the platform

Assignments

The structure of the assignments is: The total of the assignments is:

Structure
Year	Entrepreneurial assignment	Mark	Creativity assignment	Mark
Year 0	40NL year 0 Entrepreneurial assignment	....	40NL year 0 Creativity assignment	....
Year 1	40NL year 1 Entrepreneurial assignment	....	40NL year 1 Creativity assignment	....
Year 2	40NL year 2 Entrepreneurial assignment	....	40NL year 2 Creativity assignment	....
Year 3	40NL year 3 Entrepreneurial assignment	....	40NL year 3 Creativity assignment	....
Year 4	No assignment, or still another year 4?	....	40NL year 4 Creativity assignment	....

This is the basic structure: both assignments in year 0 have to be made (maybe only a very small adaption to the content) to make the game run.
Each year (round) afterwards there is a repetitive assignment (10 decisions, only very small adjustments possible) and a assignment which is up to you. So, it is not so much different from last year: the 4 creativity assignments (totally free choice to you) could be (for now we filled it in that way):

• Corona outbreak response
• Trade Fair
• Human Capital Plan
• Invest in Innovation and
• the Golden Bell e.g.

We are building a 'shop' to choose assignments from now.
The marks teams get for each assignment, have a direct influence on the occupancy rate of their hotel. Regular feedback from the coach will support the team process. The standard feedback, via the team File, will be done after each year: so year 0, 1-2-3-(4) During the game, only the coaches have insights into the marks. At the end of the Game, the total of the marking will be published per team.

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Most important changes

• Usability for participants and coaches
• More attention to security of it all (back-ups, fire walls)
• Upgraded lay-out Team File
• Content Coach File, year 0
• 'Zambaza' Test Coach Spread, with a reset button
• New course for the coaches
• More realistic content
• More visuals and video Jill
• We started a shop with assignments (link not public)
• Lots of new Pages on the platform, small changes e.g.

Assignments

The structure of the assignments is:

Structure
Schedule	Year	Entrepreneurship assignment	Mark	Creativity assignment	Mark
Deadline .....	Year 0	Your new strategy, target groups e.g. demo	....	Your new Logo,Team picture, website demo	....
Deadline .....	Year 1	10 Decisions and arguments demo	....	Your choice 1 social media plan	....
Deadline .....	Year 2	10 Decisions and arguments demo	....	Your choice 2 management issue	....
Deadline .....	Year 3	10 Decisions and arguments demo	....	Your choice 3 two minutes of fame	....

This is the basic structure: both assignments in year 0 have to be made (maybe only a very small adaption to the content) to make the game run.
Each year (round) afterwards there is a repetitive assignment (10 decisions, only very small adjustments possible) and a assignment which is up to you. So, it is not so much different from last year: the 3 free choices could be (online?) Trade Fair, Human Capital Plan, Invest in Innovation, 3 Minutes of Fame e.g. We have a 'shop' to choose from now.
The marks you get for each assignment, have a direct influence on the occupancy rate of your hotel. Regular feedback from your coach will support your team process. During the game, only the coaches have insights into your marks. At the end of the Game, the total of the marking will be published per team in your Team File