Norway Adventures AS

Placement organization

Name of organization: Norway Adventures AS
Town/city: Davik
Country: Noorwegen
Website: https://norway-adventures.com

Student

Name of student: Mike Rensen

Specialist area: Tourism Management (EN)
Placement period: 2018-2019

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Tour operator
Organization’s activities: There are two main activities that Norway Adventures focuses on. The first part is the Tailor-Made tour operator. Which designs completely (high-end) custom tours. The second part of Norway Adventures focuses on the organisation and running of multi-day hiking and kayak trips in the Norwegian fjord area.
Target group of the organization: Relatively wealthy tourists
Company culture: The company is relatively small and therefore its employees do a lot of different things. I have now been working at Norway Adventures for about 2.5 months and have been given quite important tasks. So interns are expected to take their work seriously however their is enough room for a joke every now and then! The owners that both also work in the company full time are very approachable to help.
Number of employees: 4 – 10 (season depended)
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

Booking/Marketing department (as mentioned before it is a small organization and everyone carries multiple responsibilities)

Brief description of your daily activities: – Maintaining the online marketing efforts
– Booking hotels/tours/transportation
– Working with/Optimizing the back office programs.
Brief description of your company assignment: I am tasked to find out how to best use online marketing to improve sales.
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: As mentioned before if I have questions I am free to ask away. Both owners/supervisors are direct but very helpful in their feedback.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Independent, flexible, stress-proof
Additional company requirements for this placement? MS Office, Good with numbers
English: Intermediate
Spanish: –
French: –
German: –
Italian: –
Other languages: –

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: plane/bus/ferry

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? Norway Adventures rents a house for interns/employees
How did you go to work every day? By foot (15 min)

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? No
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? No

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 0
Accommodation (monthly): € 0
Local transport (monthly): € 0
General costs of living (monthly): € 0
Costs of visa: € 0
Costs of work permit: € 0
What did the company pay for/to you? The company paid for my travel to and from Davik. As well as food and board.

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
I didn’t really however I did find out pretty fast that Norwegians are an interesting bunch. It might help you to do some research online.
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? The owners were both Dutch so the work ethic was very Dutch as well which stands in stark contrast with Norwegian culture.

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: Yes
My e-mail address: mrensen95@gmail.com

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: I would recommend bringing a car.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: The Norway Adventures office as well as the employee house is in the village of Davik. The village has roughly 200 inhabitants is located on the less populated side of the fjord in the middle of nature. This means that their is lots of possibilities for hiking and kayak trips. In order to reach the other side of the fjord you will need to take the ferry that is about 10 km from Davik. Than it is another 15 km to the biggest village Nordfjordeid which has roughly 3000 inhabitants and something that comes close to a bar…

Media

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