Strategy
Long-term and holistic agenda setting
- Co-creating strategic frameworks, visions, purpose, goals and milestones
- Co-developing reporting, control and optimization mechanisms
Procurement
Distinction and credibility through considered supply chains that excel customer needs
- Co-writing Supplier Code of Conduct
- Sourcing ecoistic FF&E (Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment) and OS&E (Operating Supplies and Equipment)
Communication
Long-term and widespread recognition of efforts and shared value
- Co-shaping brand value and truth
- Co-engaging in stakeholder dialogue
- Co-creating stories and customer-centric campaigns with a thunderstorm-like creative team
Innovating through sustainability
Invite us to co-create a one-of-a-kind sustainability strategy, brand positioning and product range. Together we will leverage what makes you special and match it with what customers today truly care about. We will come along with a well-equipped toolbox full of ideas, design thinking methods and sustainability knowhow.
Let's create value through sustainability
- Value Creation through improved brand perception
- Value Creation through circular customer experiences
- Value Creation through deeper consideration of clients needs and ethical values
- Value Creation through superb and distinguished product development
- Value creation through forward-thinking and precautionary actions (consistently monitoring developments of legislation, industry and society)
How we work
Case Studies
Communication & Procurement
c/o cabanas
The client, the architect and ourselves had the highest sustainability ambitions for the project. You can see, feel, smell, hear and touch the result. 360° sustainable holiday houses that take care of ecoistic guests!
Design Thinking Workshop
Basenbox
In this workshop we, together with the Viennese Alkaline Food Caterer and Retailer BASENBOX, worked out potentials on how to become more ecoistic. We engaged in design thinking to build campaign content and developed ideas for targeting offices and "lunch-breakers".
Awareness Campaign
#makeiteasy
On the occasion of the United Nations Sustainable Gastronomy Day we decided to couple up with creatives of the design uni HYPER ISLAND to create an awareness campaign.
Sustainability Concept
Hollereck Art & Music
Together with the Hollereck team, we developed ideas on how to reduce waste and the CO2 footprint compared to previous years. We created colorful messages about individual impact and community involvement.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Zero Waste Minibar
Together with a hotelier we redefined the minibar experience! We designed a waste free, memorable concept with truly delicious snacks and beverages.
KNOWLEDGE WORKSHOP & PANEL
Kunsthaus Dresden
We prepared and executed an introductory workshop on "Sustainable procurement and communication" and took part in a panel discussion on the Dresden “Müllmanifesto”.
COMMUNICATION & DESIGN THINKING
BESONDERE ORTE
The BO event locations are sustainability champions. We analysed their external communication and developed creative, new impulses with the team. The focus was particularly on the added value of sustainability for guests and organisers.
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY & CONSULTING
GREEN EVENTS HAMBURG
As part of the consulting team of Green Events Hamburg (GEHH), we advised, together with Lorenz Fontheim, the one-day event Frühlingserwachen in Wilhelmsburg. Together we developed a multi-layered sustainability mission statement with fields of action and measures to anchor sustainability in the event and communication strategy of the Frühlingserwachen.
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY & CONSULTING
Benediktiner Weißbräuhaus
We accompanied the new opening of the Benediktiner Weißbräuhaus in Gießen and, together with Tim Plasse's team, developed a sustainability strategy with a mission, goals, objectives and practical fields of action. Off to Gießen - where not only the food is heavenly (and sustainable).
COMMUNICATION & DESIGN THINKING WORKSHOPS, CO-CREATION, PROTOTYPING
Greentable x UBA
Right next to the Spree River, surrounded by vegetable gardens and lots of fresh air, the Environmental Education Centre Berlin is the perfect place for a day of co-creation and creative brainstorming. 13 trainees put their heads together and tinkered with solutions to bring sustainability with hands-on learning into the gastronomy industry.
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What has been said about us
The tools that the agency TUTAKA Island gave us to communicate our sustainability and awareness efforts, also to our stakeholders, were immediately applied after the workshop.
Laura Schmidt
Cocoon Hotels
Cocoon Hotels
In several project, we brought in the sustainability experts from TUTAKA. They stand out not only for their expertise, but also for their sensitivity to brands, communication and guest experiences.
Tim, Founder
F&B Heroes
F&B Heroes
The workshop "Sustainable Storytelling" was founded, rich in content, creative, sympathetic and very inspiring! Thank you for your great work!
Yvonne Aschoff
Tannerhof
Tannerhof
You are stars! Everyone was so excited and thrilled! Thanks a million. It was a inspiring day, the whole team went out full of new ideas and zest for action.
Jessica, Head of Marketing
Clarion Hotels
Clarion Hotels
The collaboration so far has been a great pleasure and we are looking forward to further opportunities.
Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz
Director Kunsthaus Dresden
Director Kunsthaus Dresden
Enlightening, entertaining, exciting & easy-going - the day with TUTAKA was everything but standard. We had a great time & broadened our horizons through various hands-on learnings. See you soon!
Albrecht, Co-Founder
Basenbox
Basenbox
Starting off with an engaging workshop, TUTAKA helped us develop an actionable and enticing sustainability strategy for our 3-day music & art festival.
Matyas Csiky, Organizer
Hollereck Festival
Hollereck Festival
The inspiring contact with the founders led to the Visionlabs project "Sustainable Hospitality". Together we coach 21 Industrial Design students and develop innovative and sustainable solutions.
Prof. Martin Topel
Wuppertal University
Wuppertal University
TUTAKA Island team
Who we are
Alexandra Herget
Creative Lead, Marketing & Guest Experience
alexandra@tutaka.com | Alexandra's LinkedIn
Alexandra developed hospitality concepts before founding TUTAKA in the beginning of 2018 after being frustrated seeing the amount of things that are thrown away every day in a hotel. Studying Interactive Art Direction at HYPER ISLAND, Graphic Design at M.DH and getting a M. Sc. in Strategy & Innovation helped along the way. Her time at The Ritz Carlton, hospitality competence and the Hotelmarketing Gruppe as well. She is mad for unusual ideas, boldness, ecoistic people, typography and Scandinavian design.
Franziska Altenrath
Business Development and R&D
franziska@tutaka.com | Franziska's LinkedIn
Franziska gained various insights into the problems and effects of unsustainable consumption patterns from different industries such as automotive, real estate and fashion. Being a true materialist herself, excited about design, materials and production, she searched for ways to challenge the status quo. She decided that it is time to reach to the roots of sustainability concepts and went back to University to study Ethics, Politics and Economics at LMU in Munich. Here she dedicated her thesis to "Sustainability and Humanitarianism in Tourism" and started the TUTAKA journey.
Charlotte Opatz
Junior Sustainable Transformation Consultant
charlotte@tutaka.com | Charlotte's LinkedIn
As a child, Charlotte dreamed of becoming an explorer. Years later, she followed her enthusiasm for environmental processes and the preservation of its diversity with a degree in environmental sciences. With an M.Sc. in Sustainable Business and Innovation from the University of Utrecht, she further deepened her knowledge. Charlotte learned about the difficulties of in-house sustainability strategies during her residencies at the Swiss Barry Callebaut AG and the Dutch sustainability consultancy inclsve. At TUTAKA, Charlotte accompanies hosts on their way towards creating more ecoistic guest experiences and sustainable transformation. She screens suppliers on TUTAKA's thorough sustainability criteria and occasionally whips out her pen to share knowledge and innovation.
Pauline Dittmeyer
Marketing and Sales Manager
pauline@tutaka.com | Pauline's LinkedIn
The topic of sustainability has been of great interest to Pauline for a long time. With a background in marketing and a M.Sc. in Digital Project Management, she now combines her collective expertise and passion for sustainability and digital products at TUTAKA. Pauline is the contact person for sustainable suppliers and eco-friendly hosts and ensures that all processes run smoothly. Online, on social networks and offline, she activates external communication - following the motto spread the good word.
Jana Hemmer
Assistent to the management
jana@tutaka.com | Jana's LinkedIn
Jana started her journey on TUTAKA island with an internship in line with her studies “Tourism and Management”. This way she combined two of her passions - sustainability and hospitality! During her internship she focused on the fields marketing, communication and business development. For TUTAKA Jana was an instant match-made-in heaven, so it was no surprise that she keeps supporting the team as a student trainee. Marketplace development, creative content production and sustainability research are part of her tasks to drive forward our mission, a more ecoistic hospitality industry.
Support
Moritz Sandweg Intern — Alexa Heese Intern — Ida Lobkowicz Intern — Paula Reuber Intern — Julia Loeffler Designer — Jan Ploch Designer & Developer — Dr. Andreas Lohmeyer Notary & Lawyer — Sascha Martin Photography
Internship
In search of a meaningful internship, an entourage for your thesis within the topic of sustainability and communication, creative stardom?
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Workshops and Webinars
You would like to get to know TUTAKA Island for a short visit?
We offer open workshops and webinars on specific topics.
TBD, live webinar
The Green Event
Whether it is a company’s culture, their commitment to sustainability or CSR-reporting strategy - the demand for Green Meetings, Events and Conferences is growing. We invite you to our popular webinar!
21st September 2020, HAMBURG
Nachhaltiges Storytelling (German)
Nachhaltigkeit kommunizieren ohne Klischees und Greenwashing? Geschichten erzählen, die ankommen und binden? Unser Team führt ein in die Welt der Ecoisten und des kreativen Storytellings durch Nachhaltigkeit.