Global Work & Travel

Placement organization

Name of organization: Global Work & Travel
Town/city: Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast
Country: Australië
Website: https://www.globalworkandtravel.com

Student

Name of student: Lieve Lemm

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

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Travel agency
Organization’s activities: Selling trips, categories: Working Holiday, Volunteer, Teach, Au Pair, Internship and Summer Camp.
As well as preparing and guiding customers through every procedure and stage of their trip.
Target group of the organization: 18-34
Company culture: Hierarchical and formal.
Number of employees: 100+
Dress code: formal
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

Marketing department

Brief description of your daily activities: Conducting research on e-commerce and affiliate platforms. Main project I worked on was launching an affiliate platform; wrote website pages, briefed designers, write e-mail templates, created databases and contacted businesses. Furthermore, posting blogs and analysing customers wit different programs.

Brief description of your company assignment: Identifying the new online target audiences of Global Work & Travel, by researching the existing and new target audiences, successful e-commerce websites, trends in e-commerce, best practices on how to target your audiences.

Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: The company supervisor is quite busy, so I worked more often with marketing coordinator Kate. She gave me tasks and helped me with different programs. During meetings we discussed progress and set new goals/tasks.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Independent, sociable, taking initiative, hard-worker and quick-leaner.
Additional company requirements for this placement? Excell, Word, writing skills and affinity with marketing.
English: Advanced
Spanish:
French:
German:
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Airplane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? Booking.com for the first days and found a nice room via flatmates.au
How did you go to work every day? by foot

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? Working Holiday Visa
Do you need a work permit? no.
How did you arrange the necessary documents: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au and by myself (passport, bank statement)
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents? few days
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): € 1500,-
Accommodation (monthly): € 480,-
Local transport (monthly): € 50,-
General costs of living (monthly): € 500,-
Costs of visa: € 360,-
Costs of work permit: €
What did the company pay for/to you? I was able to do activities the company offers their customers, like; visit a sanctuary, day trip to Byron Bay, Whale watching, surfing lessons etc.

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
I read ‘Lonely Planet East-Coast’ and did some small research online.
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: 173390@buas.nl

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: Go and explore everything Australia and the East-Coast has to offer! Also, inlands are beautiful rainforests and hike-trails.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Beach, surf spots, hike-trails, nature, wild animals, sanctuaries, skydiving, Brisbane city, Great Barrier Reef etc.

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