Resort

We create an eco-agricultural vacation resort in which we offer hospitality through dedication, creativity fun and cooperation. Business wise we will be active in hospitality, creativity and nature.

Explanation of parts of the vision. Essential is that our plan has a basis in a vision. And that the vision has distinct values. It makes it possible to work and cooperate in clarity about a vision. Some people don’t want to work inside this vision. So it’s clear. There will be no cooperation. Only if people are willing to operate within the vision one can choose to cooperate.

Eco
Ecologically sustainable. The earth is of mine and thine childrens children. If you have a roof, you need beams. The beams come from the trees in the forest. You take a tree, you plant a tree. A tree that fits the need later. Maybe you will need to replace a beam in 50 years time. If you plant in time, there will be a new beam in time. No taking without thinking about tomorrow…..

Agricultural
There will be a small ecologically operated farm on the terrain with animals and vegetables etc. So the food comes from close by. Out of nature with which we cooperate and local producers. Slow food is a good example. No products from the other side of the earth. Live with the season.

Hospitality
Good kitchen, good beds, natural surroundings, good fire and warm houses. Compared to city life, simple but genuine living and yet comfortable. After a day of hard work or holiday making, being together in the good own restaurant is an option. The area offers a lot of what comes to table to eat. Good for everybody. So bourgundic eating, ‘wining and swining’ but good quality vegetarian own produce is also part of the kitchen. After dinner everybody goes to his or her own place. To slide into bed glowing of the day. To wake up fresh with a view on nature, ready for a new day full of inspiring cooperation or solo work. The atmosphere we create by being dedicated to that what we’ve chosen to do. And cooperating to upkeep our quality all time.

Nature
We will tend gardens that provide the kitchen with products. We will organise nature oriented tourism. Obviously when one walks out the back or front or side door, one can walk for hours without meeting anyone.

Values: dedication, creativity, cooperation
Dedication is relevant in the organisation towards clients, towards work and tasks, towards quality of work delivered, client communication, service quality etc. Virtually every aspect of organisation can be given a quality of being with the aspect that needs attention that moment. Not something far away, but the client in front of you, the reality at hand, the now. That special something by which you can make a difference with the mechanical treatment of them versus you in the organisation. The one who thinks at that moment: ‘Hey, here’s our client, the most important person in our life, because he or she makes it possible for me to work here’ makes a difference. It is the quality of attention that makes the difference. Consequence? Fun in work, high quality service. Dedication means the service person can be approached with ‘how to make things better’. Not being in defence, but being eager to make it better all the time. Something is not a problem, it’s an opportunity to learn anew. Maybe something you thought you knew, but apparently not because something wasn’t working.

Creativity: how to solve or make things as a state of mind.
Nature shows a lot of creativity. Creativity is approaching every situation in life with the attitude: ‘What’s possible here?’ The questionmark is essential here. This person is curious. A curious attitude leads to creativity.
Nature shows a lot of creativity. One has only to look around in nature to see diversity in forms and colours. It is boundless. Everything created in nature fits in nature. There is also the limit of what we can do with nature. Whatever we create, it has to fit in the natural cycle. What earth do I deliver to my children’s children. Whatever you create, think of tomorrow.
Creativity in the resort also means; We offer personal development vacations on a small scale. We also have workshops where there will be possibility to be active in crafts and arts.

Cooperating means working as a team. It also means there will be cooperation with the
people surrounding the resort. It means buying locally all or many selected goods and services for restaurant, camping and buildings. At the same time it’s possible for a selected group of younger people to grow in the organisation. On the one hand it can mean learning an attitude (their own way of being), practical knowledge and languages to be able to be sent out to other organisations where they can pursue their career. On the other hand it can mean that they return to start an enterprise of their own in or outside our organisation. They can also become fellow owners in our organisation. The training of people will be my business next to being active in restaurant or camping or building (putting one stone on top of the other).

About these values, they need to work for everyone. So what the working values are, one exchanges with each other. So everybody can work with his or her own values. In any case it is important that the organisational vision and goal is served. So maybe someone works with his or her own value. Important is the attitude towards the values and goals of the organisation. That the person cooperating can support with full heart the values and goals. This means the person can personally develop in the organisation until the end of time, if so chosen.

Trough the project we create a resort where different services and products can be obtained. In so doing we will create a network through which through cooperation with various agents, tourism will be stimulated in this area.

Research basis
This beautiful idea world is supported with visits to relevant centres such as Findhorn in Scotland 2001, where I (besides doing trainings on group dynamics) I researched the organisation for a month. It was directed at organisational development trough the years. What issues emerge in a developing community. What do people leading the organisation do, what does it create in the organisation and what do people living there experience. To find out I was at strategy meetings of the community, I read their press books, spoke with all heads of organisation and spoke to and working with many people living in the community. Next to that I’ve been visiting relevant conferences on sustainable tourism with specialists from the whole of Europe, had contacts with sustainable tourism sector in Europe etc. In so doing I created a document for this project. Supported with literature and examples from many places in this world and many sources like articles in magazines and on internet.