Hotelbeds Group

Placement organization

Name of organization: Hotelbeds Group
Town/city: Palma de Mallorca
Country: Spanje
Website: http://www.hotelbeds.com/home

Student

Name of student: Bo Stijntjes

Specialist area: MTT
Placement period: 2015-2016

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: bedbank
Organization’s activities: 
Hotelbeds Group is part of TUI Group, the world’s number one leisure travel company. With more than 30 million customers, TUI Group operates in over 180 countries.

The Hotelbeds Group is a global provider of travel services from over 180 countries worldwide with local operations in 40 countries. Its businesses provide hotel accommodation, transfers, excursions and tours, meetings and events, visa outsourcing and cruise handling services. Its main clients are tour operators, travel agencies and corporate clients. Its brands include Hotelbeds, Destination Services and Intercruises.

Hotelbeds Group provides these services to the tourism industry, corporate clients and directly to the consumers worldwide.
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Target group of the organization: Everybody
Company culture: depends on the department
Number of employees: 2000+
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working? Operations (Reconfirmation team)
Brief description of your daily activities: Contact hotels in Europe, Africa and in North-, Central- and South-America by means of e-mail and phone.
Brief description of your company assignment: Report on how to optimise internal communications.
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: You get as much guidance as you ask for.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Independent, teamplayer
Additional company requirements for this placement? Above average English, (necessary), Exel skills, Spanish conversational level (not necessary but convenient)
English: Advanced
Spanish: Basic
French:
German:
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Airplane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? Own initiative
How did you go to work every day? Company bus

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? No
Do you need a work permit? NIE-number
How did you arrange the necessary documents: Embassy in Amsterdam
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents? 5 weeks
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? Yes

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 80,-
Accommodation (monthly): € 300,-
Local transport (monthly): € 0,-
General costs of living (monthly): € 200,-
Costs of visa: €
Costs of work permit: €
What did the company pay for/to you? Financial compensation: € 550,- a month
Transport: Free company bus

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
Didn´t
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: No
Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: Request the NIE-number a.s.a.p. and if you don´t hear back from them after a week or so, start calling. Sometimes they lose documents or place them in the wrong pile. Without this you are NOT allowed to start the internship.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: The entire island

Media

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