Sustainable Hotel Concepts

We develop your sustainable and innovative hotel

First the concept, then comes the rest. A sustainable hotel concept helps you to gain clarity, use resources efficiently, plan ahead, stand out from the crowd, build alignment and, ultimately, create a better future for your hotel – and for people and planet.

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Your Sustainable Hotel

Are you planning to develop a new hotel? Or looking to unlock the profit and potential of your existing hotel? Then you’ve arrived at the right place!

We MAp out your sustainable hotel concept in order to guide the development of your new independent or boutique hotel or upgrade your existing one – so that it creates the desired impact and gets the recognition it deserves.

What is a hotel concept?

A hotel concept is the basis for everything that follows in your hotel project. It’s the foundational idea that defines your hotel’s brand, character, product and services, sales and communication, and more. It curates a distinctive identity in the market and in the eyes of your clearly-defined target group.

Furthermore, a hotel concept acts as a strategic and creative outline on how to realise a hotel venture by piecing together various elements (“human” and “hard” facts) and outlining to all partners and stakeholders HOW your hotel should look and feel and WHY that is.

At MAp, we craft our hotel concepts around the following key elements:

  • Purpose: WHY you exist beyond making profit.
  • Principles: Your vision, mission and values.
  • People: The people you are serving with a solution to their problems.
  • Story: The unique story that you – and only you – are telling in order to emotionally connect with your people.
  • Positioning + USPs: What differentiates you in the market.

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What is a sustainable hotel concept?

All of the hotel concepts we create at MAp are sustainable hotel concepts. That means we put sustainability at the heart of the hotel concept and weave it into all of the elements of the hotel concept, using our very own framework for sustainability, titled the 4 Ps of Sustainability (Purpose, People, Planet, Profit). Thus, sustainability becomes a central piece for your hotel brand, your products + services, and your sales + marketing.

Why do I need a hotel concept? And does it really pay off?

Whether you are a hotelier looking to develop a hotel or are part of a hotel group looking to reposition your existing hotels, a clearly-defined and sustainable hotel concept offers many benefits:

  • Gives you clarity on the what, how, why
  • Aligns your stakeholders around a shared purpose and vision
  • Acts as a blueprint for your partners in realising the hotel project
  • Enables you to use resources more efficiently (time, money, etc.) - but also the resources of our planet
  • Makes you stand out from the crowd (as you know what you stand for)
  • Creates a better future for your hotel and business, for people and planet 

Hotels with strong concepts are able to demand a premium price, provide a coherent guest experience, sell and market themselves smartly, recruit talented staff and a community following, and have a marketable platform when pitching for investors and partners.

What do I get when I develop my hotel with you?

With MAp, you get a strong and long-term partner who will work step-by-step with you to bring your hotel vision to life. We get to the heart of what drives you, and build a sustainable hotel concept around that – bringing in our own operational expertise, trends, proven approaches and sustainability framework to make it even better.

The outcome is a Hotel Concept Playbook, that presents your hotel concept and all its encompassing elements in writing, which you can share with your partners and employees to act as a guide for them in realising your hotel project.

As necessary, we support you in identifying the partners who best fit your hotel project and onboard them to the hotel concept too. Then we provide ongoing support and guidance through the (re-)launch of your hotel, to ensure the hotel concept is successfully implemented and that the hotel is exactly what you envisioned – only better!

How do you develop sustainable hotels / sustainable hotel concepts?

Our holistic and end-to-end process for developing hotel concepts consists of the following steps:

1) Hotel Concept Discovery: Set the groundwork by looking inwards at your goals, motivations, strengths and weaknesses, and outwards at your competition, the market and innovative trends.

2) Hotel Concept Development: Using the insights collected in the Discovery phase, address each of the key elements of your hotel concept in order to define its core idea, through the lens of sustainability.

3) Hotel Concept Activation: Translate your sustainable hotel concept into the operations of your hotel, by applying it to your product + services, brand, and sales + marketing.

4) Hotel Concept Implementation: Identify strategic partners and ensure they are aligned and in keeping with the hotel concept, all the way up through (re-)launch.

How will we work together when crafting a sustainable hotel concept?

We create your sustainable hotel concept hand-in-hand together. We always start all of our hotel projects with a kick-off workshop (on- or offline) to understand your goals, motivations and vision for your hotel project. Then when we hit the drawing board to MAp out your hotel concept, we incorporate regular feedback loops to make sure that the hotel concept is what you envision. Once it’s finalised, we’ll train you and your partners/employees on it, so you are all up-to-date, and then we’ll provide regular support and guidance until it’s fully and successfully implemented.

I already have a hotel, but I want something new and more innovative, what is the right service for me?

This is it! Whether you have a new hotel you want to develop or an existing hotel you want to reposition, our sustainable hotel concept approach is largely the same - we simply take into account what you love and what you want to improve with your current hotel.

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E-learning: Developing Sustainable Hotel Concepts

Together with Kordie, the leading platform for hospitality learning, we developed an online course titled “Developing Sustainable Hotel Concepts.” It’s a practical, hands-on course for hoteliers aiming to boost your hotel’s perceived value, reach a more qualitative audience, and of course, move your hotel #onwards toward a more sustainable and successful future.

RoadMAp

We craft innovative and sustainable hotel concepts for the trail-blazers; those who want more, and are in need of a starting place that will take their hotel business off the ground and create the impact they seek. Whether they have no ideas or a million ideas in their heads, run a small independent or boutique hotel or a hotel brand plotting to take over the world.

The route your roadMAp takes is dependent upon your specific needs and adjusted accordingly.

Hotel Concept Discovery

Our starting point is to set the groundwork. Depending on your needs and existing information, this phase can include the following steps. As necessary, we can perform these steps one-off too.
 

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Our starting point is to set the groundwork. Depending on your needs and existing information, this phase can include the following steps. As necessary, we can perform these steps one-off too.
 

  • Status quo audit
  • Trend spotting
  • Strategic success potential identification
  • Market and benchmark analysis
  • Sustainability check
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Hotel Concept Development

Our hotel concepts are based on extensive expertise, operational knowledge, scientific models and on our proven MAp approach: purpose-driven, people-centred, sustainable, innovative, unique. We don’t do one-size-fits-all; every hotel project is handcrafted and bespoke. The result? An actionable and sustainable hotel concept that empowers you and your hotel to stand out!

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Our hotel concepts are based on extensive expertise, operational knowledge, scientific models and on our proven MAp approach: purpose-driven, people-centred, sustainable, innovative, unique. We don’t do one-size-fits-all; every hotel project is handcrafted and bespoke. The result? An actionable and sustainable hotel concept that empowers you and your hotel to stand out!

HOTEL CONCEPT INCLUDING:

  • Hotel concept basics and elements
  • Definition of your Purpose, vision and values
  • Your unique positioning and differentiation in the market
  • Concept activation insights and ideas: how the concept comes to life
  • Sustainability insights along MAp’s 4 Ps of Sustainability (Purpose, People, Planet, Profit)
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Hotel Concept Activation

We don’t stop at the concept. As part of our holistic and end-to-end process, we direct you further on your journey to ensure your hotel concept is consistently activated across all aspects of your hotel. As necessary, we dive deeper into each of the below areas, and equip you for success with guidance, tools and resources to effectively activate your sustainable hotel concept.

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We don’t stop at the concept. As part of our holistic and end-to-end process, we direct you further on your journey to ensure your hotel concept is consistently activated across all aspects of your hotel. As necessary, we dive deeper into each of the below areas, and equip you for success with guidance, tools and resources to effectively activate your sustainable hotel concept.

PRODUCT + SERVICES

  • Hotel product + services
  • Hotel experiences 
  • Hotel standard operating procedures (Hotel SOPs)

HOTEL BRANDING ›› DISCOVER MORE

HOTEL MARKETING ›› DISCOVER MORE

HOTEL SUSTAINABILITY ›› DISCOVER MORE

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Hotel Concept Implementation

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” Scott Belsky

We bring you to your destination by supporting and coaching you, enlisting the right partners and ensuring those partners are properly aligned – with the aim to successfully implement your bespoke hotel concept.

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“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” Scott Belsky

We bring you to your destination by supporting and coaching you, enlisting the right partners and ensuring those partners are properly aligned – with the aim to successfully implement your bespoke hotel concept.

ONGOING SUPPORT

  • Strategic hotel consulting
  • Partner search, supervision + briefing
  • Team coaching + workshops
  • Launch + pre-opening support
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