Upstalsboom Hotel + Freizeit GmbH & Co. KG is one of the leading vacation providers on the North Sea and Baltic Sea. As an operator of around 60 hotels and vacation resorts and as a comprehensive service partner for investors and owners of vacation properties, the medium-sized group of companies based in Emden offers the highest quality standards. In the three- to five-star segment, Upstalsboom is represented at 20 locations along the German coast as well as in Berlin and Emden in selected prime locations. Since its foundation in 1976 by Werner H. Janssen and his wife Gretchen, the second generation of the family business joined the management in 2005. Since the death of his father and company founder in 2007, Bodo Janssen has been managing Upstalsboom Hotel + Freizeit GmbH & Co. KG. Frisian cordiality, progressive ideas, courage to take calculated entrepreneurial risks, modern technology, first-class employee training and a trusting partnership at all levels are the foundations for the successful course. As a result of the further development of the group of companies, net sales almost doubled from the end of 2008 to 37.5 million euros at the end of 2012. The number of employees has risen from a good 400 to around 600 during this time.