Week 6

Week 5

Week 4

I recently had a break through with ASU Young Alumni, every senior has been getting emails every month almost about various Senior Year Experience events.  Well one of the main things that stood out to me was the Senior Grad trip with Orion.  I was extremely bummed to find out that they had already had a grad trip set up especially because I know Contiki is such a better company.  Before I was hired, one of the business development managers had been talking to ASU about setting up a trip, and mentioned that they had already signed a contract with Orion but was interested in planning a trip in September for Young Alumni.  I was given the appropriate contact information and became the liaison for Arizona State and Contiki Holidays.  We agreed on the Simply Italy itinerary and a date in September.  We have to wait to promote it till after the grad trips already booked are over, but after that we can go full force with marketing materials, promotional brochures and exclusive deals for ASU grads.  

Week 3

Fall Semester went really well and I believe that I got all of ASU talking about Contiki.  I was excited to get back from Europe and start my internship for my degree.  Europe was not just a vacation but a training trip while we were on the bus on our way to each country.  We learned more about working at the offices, what we will be doing and what each department is responsible for.  I really enjoyed learning more about the company, even though the training on the bus was sometimes pretty brutal, I felt like we were learning a lot.  We were going to be well prepared for what we had ahead of us.  It was my job to set up group trips on campus through various organizations, Alumni Association, GreekLife, PAB, etc.  Its easy to talk to individual people about going on a trip but if you can get a large group to book, that was a extremely amazing success.  

 

It had been hard making contacts on campus.  No one seems to take me seriously and I get shot down a lot of times.  I thought it was going to be easier because I have been involved at ASU but it has been a lot harder than ever thought.