Baz Bus

Placement organization

Name of organization: Baz Bus
Town/city: Cape Town
Country: Zuid-Afrika
Website: http://www.bazbus.com

Student

Name of student: Redouan Meddarhri

Specialist area: ITTI
Placement period: 2017-2018

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Tour Operator/ Tourism Transport
Organization’s activities: They have a day Cape Peninsula tour and their main product is the Hop-on Hop-off buses going through the entire country operating in both ways bringing tourists easily from point to point (door-to-door). they have 3 sections. 1. Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, 2. Port Elizabeth to Durban and 3. Durban to Johannesburg.
Target group of the organization: 18-65
Company culture: Informal culture and very relaxed atmosphere. Great options to travel with this company.
Number of employees: 35
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? yes they have, only they expect you to be very independent working and able to come up with improvements yourself.

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

Marketing department

Brief description of your daily activities: starting up with discussing what you are going to do today and after that, you have to work on it. this can be several things like, creating pictures on Canvas or other programs. deriving information from google adwords and thinking of follow up actions in a weekly plan.
Brief description of your company assignment: Improving and creating content on several social media platforms.
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: The supervisor was really nice and when needed she had always time for me.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? independent, video editor (recommendent), pictures editor skills
Additional company requirements for this placement? SEO knowledge and strategic long and short term planning
English: Advanced
Spanish:
French:
German:
Italian:
Other languages: knowing extra languages as Dutch and German can be usefull as they have a lot of customers from those countries,

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Airplane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? myself, Airbnb or organizations local, not international as they charge a big fee
How did you go to work every day? public transport, 50cents for the small taxi’s

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? yes, student visa
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? Yes
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? not necessary as English is one of the main languages, having knowledge of Dutch is great as Afrikaans is very similar

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € +/- 700, 800 return
Accommodation (monthly): € 250 / 350
Local transport (monthly): € 25
General costs of living (monthly): € 500
Costs of visa: € 124
Costs of work permit: €
What did the company pay for/to you? R2000 compensation at the end free ticket to travel and lot’s of complimentary overnight stay’s via the company. Inbetween trips during the internship as well

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
not really, the country especially cape town is quite western compared to the country but as long as you are open for change and different situations as you are used to it will be fine and an interesting learning moment
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? yes as the way of wokring with locals is different

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: Yes
My e-mail address: 151162@edu.nhtv.nl

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: may you want to know something or wondering you may always ask me
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: same as recommendations

Media

Youtube link Youtube placement video link