Landal Resort Eifeler Tor

Placement organization

Name of organization: Landal Resort Eifeler Tor
Town/city: Heimbach
Country: Duitsland
Website: http://www.landal.nl/nl-nl/bungalowparken/duitsland/eifel/eifeler-tor

Name of student: Anne de Moet

Specialist area: MRO
Placement period: 2013-2014

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Holiday Park
Organization’s activities: Rental of holiday accommodations, conference rooms, gastronomy and organizing different tours.
Target group of the organization: Private Investors and vacationers
Company culture: Their not a constant hierarchy, but the manager is always the manager. The contact with the manager is more formal than with your colleagues.
There is also time for fun and laughing, but especially with larger events is the hierarchy clearly present.
Number of employees: 50-60
Dress code: formal
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working? Management and administration, frontoffice and gastronomy
Brief description of your daily activities: Controlling the daily finances and programming the cash register, translating, check-in and check-out of the guests and other small activities which the manager gives.

Helping out in the gastronomy when there isn’t enough staff.
Brief description of your company assignment: Increasing the Spend Per Sleeper by analysing the behaviour of the guests and implementing new techniques.
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: There is a weekly meeting with the manager in which you can ask your questions and present your work. In this meeting you also recieve feedback and your new tasks.

You can choose to work in the office or at home in an other office. It also depends on the tasks you have and where you are needed.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Independent, team player, flexible, stress-proof, creative, advisory skills, communication towards guests
Additional company requirements for this placement? Excel, SPSS
English: Basic
Spanish:
French:
German: Intermediate
Italian:
Other languages: Dutch

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Car

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? Is provided by the company. (on location)
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: Not applicable
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents? Not applicable
Did you need certain vaccinations? No
How long in advance? Not applicable

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? No

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 50 (by car)
Accommodation (monthly): € 0
Local transport (monthly): € 0 (Company car), 50 (own car)
General costs of living (monthly): € 85 (groceries)
Costs of visa: € 0
Costs of work permit: € 0
What did the company pay for/to you? Accommodation and dinner are included. Monthly payment of 350,00 EUR.

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
I did not. Germany is not that different from the Netherlands. Just the language is different, so you can prepare for that when you want to.
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: abdemoet@hotmail.com

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: To do:
– Arrange your own car. It is not always possible to take the company car and thereby you can only take it for short trips to the supermarket. The park is located quite remotely from other transport facilities and those facilities are quite expensive.

Not to do:
– Expecting a nine to five job. It is a young and developing park in which there is always work to do.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Large cities as Köln, Düsseldorf and Düren.
Canoeing, cycling, walking, hiking, swimming
Boat trip on the Rursee, sledding

Media

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