Oh My Good Guide

Placement organization

Name of organization: Oh My Good Guide
Town/city: Malaga
Country: Spanje
Website: https://ohmygoodguide.com

Student

Name of student: Eva-linn

Specialist area: Tourism Management (NL)
Placement period: 2019-2020

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Travel agency
Organization’s activities: Management department: managing tours and bookings, contacting collaborators, customer service, product development, brainstorm ideas, researching gap in the market, researching topics for the Andalusian Travel Blog.
Marketing department: marketing plan, strategy, managing social media platforms, Google Analytics research, researching improvements, monitoring results.
Media department: responsible for Photoshoots, photograph workshop, taking pictures for inspiration, taking pictures for the website/blogs/social media.
Offering tours, based on the local (Andalusian) culture: tour guides, managing tours, writing tour plots.
Target group of the organization: Mostly Americans 45+
Company culture: – Informal: my boss is very flexible and everything is discussable.
– Weekly meeting with the team for brainstorm sessions.
– Weekly report: everyone has to write what they’ve done every week, the problems you’ve faced, improvements, brainstorm ideas and writing down how much time each task takes.
– Using Trello for time management: a work overview.
– Using Toggl for time management: to measure the time for each task.
– Using Google Drive: everybody in the company has access to this. We share all our documents so that everyone knows what is going on and to help each other.
Number of employees: 10
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

Marketing department + tour guides

Brief description of your daily activities: Managing tours and bookings, contacting collaborators, customer service, product development, brainstorm ideas, researching gap in the market, researching topics for the Andalusian Travel Blog and writing tour plots.

Brief description of your company assignment: The company’s main assignment entails creating new products in other cities, such as Granada and Sevilla. Therefore, feasibility study needs to be done to find a gap in the market to be able to create these new products. This entails a lot of other activities, for example searching for new providers, analysing the competition and promoting the new products by marketing

Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: Alicia Cobos Recio is my supervisor and the owner of Oh My Good Guide. She is young, enthusiastic and flexible. She helps me when I need it and gives me feedback, which I appreciate very much.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Independent, team player, flexible, representable, social, honesty, hostile, writing skills, analyzing skills
Additional company requirements for this placement? Writing skills, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Trello, Toggl
English: Advanced
Spanish: Basic

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Airplane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? Myself
How did you go to work every day? By foot or by bus

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? Yes
Would you recommend to have a language course prior to this placement? No

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € One way ticket around €100
Accommodation (monthly): € €312,50
Local transport (monthly): € €73
General costs of living (monthly): € €300
Costs of visa: €
Costs of work permit: €
What did the company pay for/to you? Nothing

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
I knew Malaga already and I am very familiar with the Spanish culture. It was easy for me to adapt.
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: eva-linnvaneck@hotmail.com

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do:
What to do:
– Visit museums.
– Discover the nightlife of Malaga.
– Walk around the historic centre of Malaga and discover many interesting things.
– Eat local.
– Go to the central market.
– Visit the beach and the two old fisher neighbourhoods: Pedregalejo and El Palo.

What NOT to do:
Nothing. You have to get out of the house and discover the local culture yourself.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Malaga has a LOT to offer. I fell in love with this city. It’s lively, inspiring and many interesting things to see and to visit.

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