Corinthia Hotel St. George’s Bay

Placement organization

Name of organization: Corinthia Hotel St. George’s Bay
Town/city: St. Julians
Country: Malta
Website: https://www.corinthia.com/en/hotels/malta-stgeorgesbay

Name of student: Walter de Beer

Specialist area: MT
Placement period: 2017-2018

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Hotel
Organization’s activities: Corinthia St George’s Bay is a luxurious 5 star hotel, which targets luxury guests both leisure and business on a national and international scale.
Target group of the organization: Leisure, Business & MICE Guests
Company culture: The company culture is informal. Colleagues do communicate with each other in an informal way. This helps create a nice working atmosphere. For it felt like a family that adopted me.
However, when matters are urgent or the guests are involved, the communication becomes more formal.
As an intern you are part of the team and get some responsibility. The workload differs per department.
Number of employees: 150-200
Dress code: formal
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

Marketing Department

Brief description of your daily activities: The workload at the Marketing Department can be very heavy, because we are looking after two hotels (Corinthia Hotel St. George's Bay & Marina Hotel Corinthia Beach Resort). This makes the Marketing Department a very busy department, in which no day is the same!
In this department we are making posters, brochures, leaflets, website updates and a lot more!
Brief description of your company assignment: During my Company Assignment I did research after the USPs and UBRs of Corinthia Hotel St. Georges Bay. I did Desk Research and Qualitative Research (Interviews) to figure out what the USPs and UBRs are for the hotel. After my research I made some recommendations.
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: Quite good. The supervision gave my responsibility on different jobs and helped me where requested or needed.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? team player, social, communicative, flexible, multitasking
Additional company requirements for this placement? MS Office, writing Skills
English: Advanced
Spanish:
French:
German: Basic
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Airplane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? through a dutch agency called MijnMaltaStage.nl
How did you go to work every day? Public Transport

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? –
Do you need a work permit? –
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? Can be useful, especially when your English (writing or speaking) skills are not so good.

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € about 120 euros
Accommodation (monthly): € 500 euros
Local transport (monthly): € between 25 and 70 euros
General costs of living (monthly): € about 250 euros
Costs of visa: € –
Costs of work permit: € –
What did the company pay for/to you? Nothing, only the lunch was for free.

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
I bought a travel guide and read some things on the internet.
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? Yes

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: Yes
My e-mail address: 153010@edu.nhtv.nl

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: First of all, show your interests in your job. If you show your interests, the employees will be interested in you! Show that you are willing to learn!
Besides, ask as much as you can. You colleagues will help you and it will improve the quality of your internship.

Also, for accommodation, get started as soon as possible. In Malta it is not as quick as in The Netherlands and it is even more difficult.
Good to know is that the transport in Malta is not like that in The Netherlands. So, get your accommodation in the area of St Julians or Swieqi. That way you can walk to work and not be dependent on a bus.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Go and discover the islands of Malta! Malta offers so much sights and places of interest! Really, there is a lot to do in Malta!
Go to Valletta, Mdina, Gozo, Three Cities, Dingli Cliffs and much more!
Do not go to the St. Julians area, because this area is not offering tourist sights.
See as much as you can during the time you are in Malta! This is cooler and there are less tourists when summer ends!
Recommendation: Rent a Quad on Gozo!

Media

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