Happy Trails! Asia

Placement organization

Name of organization: Happy Trails! Asia
Town/city: Bali, Sanur
Country: Indonesië
Website: http://happytrailsasia.com/

Student

Name of student: Manaar Yahia Tantaoui

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

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: DMC
Organization’s activities: Creating trips to sell B2B
Target group of the organization: European market
Company culture: Informal, family culture
Number of employees: 150
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working: Sales & Marketing

Brief description of your daily activities: Check contracts, make bookings, launge a new internal training platform and give training to employees. Give safety training to employees, create landingpages for business customers and direct clients, create vouchers and create 2 new websites
Brief description of your company assignment: Implement a new B2C strategy with a revenue stream of 20% by 2020
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: Excellent!

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? English communication and writing skills, be able to work independent yet be a teamplayer and be willing to work hard and take your tasks seriously
Additional company requirements for this placement? Writing skills, Ms Office, Excel
English: Advanced
Spanish: Basic
French: Basic
German: Basic
Italian: Basic
Other languages: Only english requiered and german is a plus but not necesarry

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Motorbike

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? Airbnb
How did you go to work every day? Motorbike

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? Yes, a social visa
Do you need a work permit? No
How did you arrange the necessary documents: Agency
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents? a full week to begin with and it took a lot of time in indonesia to excent it, but Happy Trails helps you out through an agency
Did you need certain vaccinations? Yes
How long in advance? I already took them a year before I traveled by coincidence

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? Only if your english is not well enough

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 1200
Accommodation (monthly): € 230
Local transport (monthly): € 100
General costs of living (monthly): € 600
Costs of visa: € 500
Costs of work permit: € –
What did the company pay for/to you? Benzine to work, meals

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
Ive been in indonesia before but everyone is really kind so you will get used to their culture very easily
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? Only in a good way

Future students on placement

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

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: Just go for it. Indonesia is a beautiful and safe country. You only need to be carefull with your bags and personal stuff (espacially in the night after a night out).
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Enough to do in Bali! Sanur is a bit more quiet but also in Sanur you can go to a clean, beautiful beach and enjoy a cocktail at a beachclub.

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