Name: Susie

University: University of Gloucestershire

Currently Studying: BSc (Joint Honours) Business Management and Hospitality Management

Heading to: Christchurch, New Zealand

For how long: 6 months

When: December 2009

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Susie applied originally for our Perth hospitality internship programme and we ended up placing her into a great hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand! We have placed Susie for a six month internship to make up the remainder of her 12 month hospitality placement. The first six months was undertaken in the UK and now the second six months will be over the New Zealand summer starting the first week of December.

Susie is actually heading to the same hotel that Amy (from Portsmouth University), so we put Susie and Amy in touch this week and they have had some emails about life in Christchurch, accommodation and probably what the employer is like .

Where too from here?

So now that Susie is starting to finalise her plans how will we help from here on. We get asked this a lot from students looking to apply, how do you help me after you have found me a Hospitality or Tourism internship place? Well from here on it will be all about making sure that Susie has planned everything correctly. We if need be we can suggest companies that specialise in travel insurance for New Zealand, how to find the best flight, we have already helped Susie with her work visa application and this has been printed into her passport already.

The next thing that will happen is a week before she departs we will send through her arrival instructions from our New Zealand team. The New Zealand team will be supporting Susie when she is in New Zealand. We won’t be babying Susie and she will need to stand on her own two feet. BUT if something did happen, an accident or anything like that then there is 24 hour support available to help her out.

We wish Susie all the best

I know she will love Christchurch, it is a beautiful city (nicknamed the garden city). Susie will also love her hotel, Amy likes it there and they have had many of our hospitality students and graduates, all have had a great time and learnt a lot on their placement.

If you’re interested in a Hospitality Internship like Amy’s in Christchurch, Queenstown, Auckland, Wellington, Rotorua in New Zealand, check out the Hospitality Internships page for more information.