Bike2Malaga

Placement organization

Name of organization: Bike2Malaga
Town/city: Málaga
Country: Spanje
Website: http://www.bike2malaga.com

Name of student: Nathaly de Lie

Specialist area: MT
Placement period: 2016-2017

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Bikerental and biketours company
Organization’s activities: Bikerental (roadbikes, mountainbikes, trekkingbikes, electric bikes and city bikes)
Biketours (Panorama bike tour, Wine and tapas tour, City bike tour and Nature bike tour)
Pick up and delivery service
Target group of the organization: Tourists
Company culture: Boss and wife boss –>
Managers; –> (3)
Mechanics (3)
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? Most of all the back office.
Brief description of your daily activities: – Answering emails of clients
– Having telephon contact with clients
– Making booking confirmations for tours or rentals for clients and send them
– Sometimes giving tours
-Maintaining the social media pages
-Sending tripadvisors after the people rent of had the biketour
Brief description of your company assignment: To improve the social media pages
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: My supervision try to help me a lot when I don’t know what to do, otherwise she let me do what I think i have to do.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Teamplayer, flexible and representable would be good
Additional company requirements for this placement? MS office
English: Advanced
Spanish:
French:
German:
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: airplane

Accommodation

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

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? No
Do you need a work permit? No
How did you arrange the necessary documents: –
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents? –
Did you need certain vaccinations? No
How long in advance? –

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? Spanish would be more easy

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 140
Accommodation (monthly): € 350
Local transport (monthly): € 0.0
General costs of living (monthly): € 150
Costs of visa: € –
Costs of work permit: € –
What did the company pay for/to you? The company gave me a compensation for doing a tour, it also depends on how much people are in the tour.

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
Not really
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: 141176@nhtv.nl

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: Just be yourself in this company, they respect that the most. And don’t ask to much what you can or must do, have a look yourself what you can do, they like it a lot. And be a teamplayer.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: What really nice to do are:
-Visiting Gibraltar (it’s still an English exclave)
-Visiting Ronda (the bullring and the Puento Nuevo)
– Visting Nerja, the European balcony and Paddle surfing in the summer is really great
-Caminito del Rey

Media

Youtube link Youtube placement video link