Australian Wildlife Adventures and Coodlie Park

Placement organization

Name of organization: Australian Wildlife Adventures and Coodlie Park
Town/city: Port Kenny
Country: Australië
Website: http://australianwildlifeadventures.com.au/

Name of student: Daan de Kraay

Specialist area: MT
Placement period: 2016-2017

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Tour operator and Accommodation/Camping
Organization’s activities: Everything, work in all departments,mmarketing, sales, product, branding.
Sell tours, learn about the tours (by doing them), finance, accounting,whatever needs to be done.You’ll experience all the aspects of Management Tourism.
Target group of the organization: 20-50
Company culture: Very informal, they are like your family and boss in one.
Great fun and a good working environment.
Culture is about the same as in the Netherlands, only you have to get
used to the farming culture in the area you live in. Great and friendly people!
Number of employees: 3 (inc you) + tour guides
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working? All departments because its a small company:
– finance
– reservations
– sales
– marketing
– front office and back office

Brief description of your daily activities: financial section means that the you’ll have to do the invoices for the tours and work out the costs for the tours to see whether there is a profit or loss.

With marketing and the digital development. You’ll have to keep working on social media and might do a compettion or something.

Reservatoins means that you’ll be doing the bookings and answer the phones.

In addition, we have Coodlie Park. Almost daily do I do a welcome chat in the front office. Receiving people do we default on Thursday because then come the tours along. also, there are plenty of work at the camp site.
Brief description of your company assignment: My company assignment get the digital marketing plan. Hassie and Jo aren a bit ‘old-school’ so our digital generation could help them alot.
We had a big brand exposure and we’ve change te logo’s. Developed the website and got live on a lot of new online listing websites. etc. etc. etc.
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: Hassie (the boss) he is a great guy, very Australian and laid back. He loves to help the dutchies and he loves our help for the organisation. You’ll be involved in the organisation but also in the family, something you wont get anywhere else. He likes you to show initiative and is willing to base decisions on what you tell him, he lite-rarely trust all his Dutchies (and WWOofers, backpackers who work on the farm) as if they are his own children

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? flexible, willing to do all kinds of jobs, sociable, independent
Additional company requirements for this placement? Excel
English: Advanced
Spanish:
French:
German:
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: airplane to adelaide or perth and then with the tour to the farm

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? included
How did you go to work every day? roll out of bed and your there

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? Yes, I would do 6 months tourist visa, you can get a working holiday visa if you want to travel again in Australia
Do you need a work permit? no
How did you arrange the necessary documents: online
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents? 1 day
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? no except for if you are bad at English (it is a must)

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € rond de € 1200
Accommodation (monthly): € 0
Local transport (monthly): € 0
General costs of living (monthly): € 100 (alcohol and sigarretes are expensive in Australia, you’ll be provided with food
Costs of visa: € 350
Costs of work permit: € 0
What did the company pay for/to you? Accommodation
Food
Transportation from adelaide to the farm

Not included:
Buy your own snacks and drinks (alcohol) and other extra stuff.

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
Nothing, they are really open minded and relaxed.

Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? yes, in a positive way

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: Yes
My e-mail address: daannummer1@hotmail.com

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: –
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Sandboarding,
fishing,
the most beautiful beach with huge great bight cliffs will be your backyard!
Port Kenny pub
Elliston (you can play netball or footy here)
Streaky Bay (some big surfing contests)
Swimming with sealions and dolphins
Venus bay walk see some dolphins jumping next to you
Campground of Coodlie Park (watch the milky way in the night, best galaxy of the country!)

Media

Youtube link Youtube placement video link