Our philosophy

Nelson Mandela explains Ubuntu as follows: “If a traveler through our country stopped at a village, he wouldn’t have to ask for food or water. As soon as he stops, the people would give him food and entertain him. That is one aspect of ubuntu, but ubuntu has many aspects.”

An attempt at a longer definition was made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1999: “A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, acknowledges others, does not feel threatened by others being capable and doing well, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs to a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”

Ubuntu does not mean that people should not think about themselves. The question is therefore: “Will you act so that the society around you can improve?”

Ubuntu can be summarized as: “A person is a person through other people” – or in a slightly different way: “We are, because of you”.

Fredriksten Hotel exists because of our guests, and we want this to be reflected in everything we do. Our mission is to give our guests good experiences that make us deserve their loyalty for a lifetime. This is our entire foundation for existence and the justification for our business areas. Part of our Ubuntu is also linked to sustainable operations and environmentally friendly harvesting and raw material production.