About Peak Season

Run a hotel. Share a valley.

What it is

A commons simulation: teams each run a hotel in a remote mountain valley and decide, season by season, on prices and building. Every guest wears on the same landscape, so what pays for one hotel can cost the valley its guests. It is part of Phronon, a suite of online tools for practical judgment.

How a session works

1. An educator creates a session and shares the join code or link.
2. Participants join in the browser and are put into teams; each team runs one hotel.
3. Season by season, the teams set prices, build or buy houses, and decide what to give back to the valley.
4. The debrief shows what became of the valley and sets it beside two reference valleys played from the same start.

Audience: Business students & executives · Typical time: 60 min + debrief

Privacy and hosting

Hosted in Germany. Participants join in the browser with a first name and an e-mail address: no account, no install, and no third-party tracking or ads. The privacy notice says what is stored and for how long.

Get started

Students join a session with the code their educator shows. Educators sign in to create a session. Questions or course use: info@phronon.org.

Machine-readable summary for AI agents: /llms.txt.