Anywhere Costa Rica

Placement organization

Name of organization: Anywhere Costa Rica
Town/city: La Fortuna
Country: Costa Rica
Website: http://www.anywhere.com/costa-rica

Student

Name of student: Lotte Hiel

Specialist area: ITMC
Placement period: 2017-2018

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Travel agency
Organization’s activities: Planning holidays for inbound tourists in to Costa Rica, mainly North Americans.
Target group of the organization: North Americans
Company culture: Informal
Number of employees: 30
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Not yet (8 weeks of placement)

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

Operations

Brief description of your daily activities: Adding content on website, checking for mistakes, updating arenal.net and monteverde.info. Next to this I participate in a lot of river cleaning jobs and other ways to help to community.
Brief description of your company assignment: Analyzing the European market, is this a suitable market for the company.
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: I have a supervisor in the office and I have a supervisor for my company assignment.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Independent
Additional company requirements for this placement? Word, writing skills
English: Advanced
Spanish: Intermediate
French:
German:
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Airplane and shuttle

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? Company
How did you go to work every day? By foot

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? No, you can be in the country 90 days with a Dutch passport. Than you have to go out of the country for 72 hours and can come back for another 90 days.
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? You should have some Spanish knowledge, but the work is all in English.

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 900
Accommodation (monthly): € 0
Local transport (monthly): € 0
General costs of living (monthly): € 250
Costs of visa: € 0
Costs of work permit: € 0
What did the company pay for/to you? Accommodation and shuttle from San Jose to La Fortuna.

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
Not
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: 132919@edu.nhtv.nl

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: Not
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: La Fortuna is one of the Tourism Hotspots in the country, so there is a lot to do. You do not have a lot of leisure time though, you work 40 hrs (sometimes 48 hrs) a week.

Media

Youtube link Youtube placement video link