What we do and offer

We like to disseminate our work and experience throughout networks and partnerships!
Since many years we are managing social cooperatives and some small Hotels with success! Some time ago we thought to replicate our success stories - some of them at least - and we decided to use the Le Mat’s social franchising method.

So we distilled our organization, our know how and we analysed our vision.
Then we prepared Manuals in order to replicate the success.
And last but not least we established Le Mat - the central point of the network.
Our idea of franchising differs a little bit from the traditional one: it is a kind of learning and planning community and the access to the learning community has to be as wide as possible.
So we call it social franchising!

In fact we promote the brand Le Mat - the hotel franchising of social entrepreneurs for the establishment of a chain of hotels as franchise by social enterprises.
The collection of manuals together with the group of social hoteliers is the centerpiece of the Le Mat which acts as a development agency.
Our proposal is addressed to persons and organisations that are eager to learn about enterprising, and want to think on a large scale.

Some examples:

• a workers-owned cooperative or social enterprise wishing to open a hotel;
• a group of unemployed or precariously employed persons who wish to be masters of their own future by starting an enterprise;
• a social enterprise running a scarcely profitable hostel and intending to do better in the hotel sector;
• a local authority wishing to salvage an abandoned edifice and create local jobs by supporting a social enterprise;
• an association of persons seeking to promote good-level employment opportunities for its members;
• a bank, a firm, a development agency wishing to invest in a profitable entrepreneurial sector;
• a hotelier wishing to upgrade his hotel;
• a group of friends wishing to be pleasurably useful.

The collection of manuals sets out and teaches a way of working. It does not describe the whole path that must be followed to acquire the Le Mat brand.
Each new franchisee will create its own personalised manual (with the assistance of all the entrepreneur workers and with Le Mat as its tutor).

We invite you to become a member of this Le MAT learning and networking community.
In order to set up your own hotel, hostel or B&B and to reach the success you desire you need some knowledge and experience.
We have this experience and we can help you avoid many mistakes.
Some general information is avalible to you as downloads from this webpage, we can transfer more throughout an organized learning process.
You only have to call us and we agree a personalized process!

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