By Anne Bottjer When I arrived at my hotel in Thailand, a colleague from the human resources department accompanied me to my room. To my surprise, she took of her shoes and carefully placed them next to the entrance before she went into the chamber. Without really...
By Sofie Coldenhoff At the Front Office of Le Méridien, we have several collaborations with travel agencies. One of them is Japan to Malta. In my first week I helped with a checked-out of two Japanese women. As in the usual procedure, we asked them how their stay was...
By Kirsten Groenen The Aruban population has a diverse ethnical field, with many different cultures and languages. However, it is still known as “One Happy Island”. The fact that everyone lives happy with and next to each other on the island, doesn’t automatically...
By an OTC student Online collaboration between a Dutch and Japanese student I have now worked with the international exchange student for about four weeks and we have had several meetings. In these meetings there were of course some differences in our way of...
By an OTC student Arrival in Cairo In the evening of February 8, I arrived in Egypt's capital, Cairo. I had already been searching for a lot at home about the city and all the sights, and I was really looking forward to experiencing the culture. Together with another...
By an OTC student It seems like yesterday that I was still sipping on my milk tea and feeding my addiction.. where did the time go? Before the feared day of departure back to the Netherlands, I had a nightmare that I was underway to the airport. Luckily when I woke up...
By Jaron van der Laan After nearly three months of being in Malta, I have made friends with all kinds of different nationalities, cultures and people. This makes my time here wonderful and that’s why I will fully focus on this topic, in this blog. I am a strong...
I know it sounds like an amateur Ikea commercial, however, this sentence has been stuck in my head for over the past 3 months, being here in the US. I am aware that the hospitality industry is known for a more “work hard, play hard” lifestyle mantra, long hours of...
By Max van der Heiden The Majestic hotel is a 5-star luxury hotel on Barcelona's most expensive street in the beautiful and scenic Eixample district. Guests visiting the hotel are mainly in the higher tourism segment. Only Last week, we were in the presence of world...
By Annebé Lugard Exactly 2 months ago we started our internship abroad. 2 months in which we have seen so much, learned much and a lot has happened. There are many differences between the culture in which we grew up, the Dutch culture, and now living in Mexico with...