Maritim Hotel Düsseldorf

Placement organization

Name of organization: Maritim Hotel Düsseldorf
Town/city: Düsseldorf
Country: Duitsland
Website: http://www.maritim.de/de/meetings-und-events/deutschland/hotel-duesseldorf/tagen-feiern

Student

Name of student: Inga Piepenstock

Specialist area: ITMC
Placement period: 2013-2014

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: accommodation
Organization’s activities: The hotel is directly connected to the Düsseldorf airport and not far away from the congress centre and fair ground. It is also the largest conference hotel in North-Rhine Westphalia, with a capacity of up to 5,000 persons in 33 rooms ranging in size from 29 to 2,500 square meters. Additionally, it has got 4 excellent restaurants and 2 bars. Therefore the hotel wants to have the best service and offers to please the business or leisure guests.
Target group of the organization: business people and leisure guests
Company culture: The hotel has a hotel director and several heads of departments and everybody else has to do what they say. However, everybody has a right to express their ideas and wishes.
Number of employees: 250
Dress code: uniform
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working? Sales and Marketing department
Brief description of your daily activities: – office administration (sorting or arranging documents, typing texts)
– press review
– social media update and online portals improvements
– content review on various web pages
– help with promotions or advertisements for big events in the hotel
– visiting the competitors
– helping with event planning, printing materials, preparing sales activities
– helping with everything else that is important for the situation
Brief description of your company assignment: – enhancement of online presence (social media & content management), research to improve and get a better understanding of the online booking (questionnaires)
– research to get a better understanding of who from the Airport City is eating in our restaurants and to promote the restaurants better (questionnaires)
– induction to hotels & Maritim chain marketing instruments and departments (visits)
– cooperation with Düsseldorf airport & DMT (Düsseldorf Marketing & Tourism), ask questions to them
– working on the Marketing and Business Plan
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: The organization is helping me a lot with everything (my job in the hotel and tasks of NHTV).

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? team player, sociable, performable
Additional company requirements for this placement? MS Office, maybe SPSS, know different languages
English: Advanced
Spanish:
French:
German: Mother tongue
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: airplane, train, bus, car

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? family
How did you go to work every day? train

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? If you are from another country than Germany: yes

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € none
Accommodation (monthly): € nothing, living at home
Local transport (monthly): € 80 €
General costs of living (monthly): € 150-200 €
Costs of visa: €
Costs of work permit: €
What did the company pay for/to you? nothing

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
I am German so I know how German people are
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: ingapiep@gmx.de

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: I am travelling 1 1/2 hours to my placement everyday and it is exhausting after time. I recommend to move to Düsseldorf, however it is very expensive to live there and you do not get money from the placement.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: In Düsseldorf you can do anything because the city is big and it has a lot to offer!

Media

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