London will also have its own floating hotel. Like the OFF Seine, which opened in Paris over the summer, the Thames will soon be home to a 148-room hotel: the Good Hotel is due to open its doors in September. "The Good Hotel is not only good for its industrial design and waterside meeting rooms, but also for its concept. The Good Hotel is in fact a not-for-profit project focused on training the long-term unemployed in the hotel trade, with the hotel teams made up of unemployed people who are offered three-month contracts. " Premium hospitality, with a cause This is the concept put forward by the managers of Good Hotel, who aim to embody "the best of the best". a social business that reinvests its profits in education, training and entrepreneurship"..
The idea was born last year in Amsterdam, where the establishment was moored until now. It was then transported by boat from the Dutch metropolis to the quays of Newham's Royal Docks, not far from the Excel convention centre and theLondon City airport : two good points for business travellers visiting the British capital... The Good Hotel is set to remain there for five years. Meanwhile, Dutch group Good Hospitality, founded by kind-hearted entrepreneur Marten Dresen, opened another social hotel in Antigua, Guatemala, this summer, and intends to redevelop a new 'second chance' establishment in Amsterdam. The aim is to repeat the success of a formula that has enabled 70 of the 100 employees trained to find stable employment.
