Coodlie Park Pty Ltd

Placement organization

Name of organization: Coodlie Park Pty Ltd
Town/city: Port Kenny
Country: Australië
Website: http://www.australianwildlifeadventures.com.au

Name of student: Richard van Renssen

Specialist area: ITTI
Placement period: 2014-2015

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Tour Operator/Accommodation
Organization’s activities: Tours between Adelaide and Perth, crossing the Nullarbor
Accommodations at Port Kenny
Target group of the organization: 20-45
Company culture: Craig and Jo Haslam are the owners of the company, you will be helping them out with most of the work regarding the tours and accommodation. The company is informal and they greatly appreciate your thoughts and ideas.
Number of employees: 8
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working? Sales
Brief description of your daily activities: Answer the phone and email, make booking and process payments, check if all payments have been coming in. prepare paperwork for the tour guides and process their paperwork from previous tours.
Brief description of your company assignment: Design, Distribute and follow up on a webinar specifically for the Dutch travel market
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: Supervision is good. You learn almost everything of the company withing the first month and are able to do everything yourself after the 2nd month

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Flexible, stress-proof, independent
Additional company requirements for this placement? MS Office
English: Advanced
Spanish:
French:
German: Advanced
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Airplane and then tourbus from Adelaide or Perth

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? company
How did you go to work every day? foot

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? Officially you’ll need a working holiday visa
Do you need a work permit? No
How did you arrange the necessary documents: Myself, easy to do
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents? i think 1-2 days
Did you need certain vaccinations? Yes
How long in advance? Already had them

Language course

Did you take a language course before you started your placement? No
Would you recommend to have a language course prior to this placement? German, if you dont already speak it is useful as most tourist on the tours are german/swiss

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 2000
Accommodation (monthly): € 0
Local transport (monthly): € 0
General costs of living (monthly): € 0
Costs of visa: € ?
Costs of work permit: €
What did the company pay for/to you? Meals and Accommodation as well as offer the optional extras of the tour for free.

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
Didn’t, the culture is similar to the Netherlands
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? No

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: Yes
My e-mail address: rcvanrenssen@gmail.com

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: Prepare for limited internet as the modems only have 15gb internet a month each. You’ll be on Coodlie Park for most of the time, as the closest city for shopping is 2,5 hours away. YOu are remotely located, so don’t expect to be able to walk towards the shops or anything like you would in a city.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Go to the private beach, join in on swimming with the sea lions with the tours

Media

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