The Bloom Garden Guesthouse helps the local population in Cambodia to move ahead. Join in and enjoy the rewards.
The Bloom Garden Guesthouse is a middle-class hotel at Siem Reap, Cambodia, offering its customers a pleasant stay with various facilities, and creating possibilities to discover this beautiful country in all its facets. The customer is taken along in the development goals the Bloom Garden Guesthouse aspires to attain. Bloom Garden Guesthouse will support its employees in their development and well-being in their personal habitat. It has a safe working environment, and takes care of educational facilities.
The activities aim at creating employment, education facilities, and social goals, for the local population of Cambodia. There is specific attention for persons at a large distance from the labour market.
How will we achieve this?
Bloom Garden Guesthouse is a social enterprise. This is to say it has the ambitions of a sound enterprise, but also the aim of a social enterprise, geared to maximalize improvements in human and ecological well-being, instead of profit maximalization for the owner. Following thorough research, we decided to take off on a large scale right away. This is the only way to really make a difference.
Why Cambodia?
Peterhans Koperberg, initiator of the Bloom Garden Guesthouse, has been active in Cambodia since 2006. He organized journeys and initiated projects to improve the well-being of the local population in various ways. Peterhans wants to do more to make a difference for the Cambodians.
Peterhans: “Living on the basis of confidence might be the most important thing the Cambodians taught me. The country conquered a central place in my heart. It touches me. Cambodians can teach you how to deal with insecurity, freedom, and responsibility. It is country with a turbulent history, but incredibly viable. For me, perhaps the most memorable incident is the commitment of my Cambodian friends when I unfolded my plans. The confidence you receive, the connectedness I felt: for me, this is the essence of life. Cambodia helps me to locate the connection with myself, with what I regard as important and with who I love, in the centre of my life. To live and do business on the basis of connectedness and trust.”
Personal story
Peterhans: “In the plans I am developing for a hotel at Phnom Penh, soul and commerce are interrelated. As a hotel owner I can help to construct a world I believe in. In this, what I do professionally and whi I am personally, is strongly interwoven. I am convinced this will also lead to commercial success. By developing plans which concern yourself as well, plans that are an extension of your own conviction, of which you believe they will improve the world a bit, you develop your commercial strength as well. This is how I want to be a hotel owner: offering a hospitable space to others on the basis of my own motivation and drives, to realize their own dreams as well.”
Peterhans: “Within my own family, the discussion about our dream was taken up in 2012. Two years later the Foundation was established, a comprehensive business plan came about, and the conclusion was: Bloom Garden Guesthouse can be done! There is a market for a hotel with opportunities to realize our goals.”
