What have we been doing?

 

I visited HAAGA-HELIA's Haaga Campus in Helsinki today with six members from our Project Teams and our teacher Leena Aitto-oja. We met Haaga's tourism students who are working with us at our stand in Matka Nordic Travel Fair. Some of their teachers and other HAAGA-HELIA personnel were taking part on the meeting too. Our purpose for the visit was to present our plans for the fair stands and to get to know our fellow students in Haaga Campus.

Porvoo and Haaga tourism students are working together at the stand and Porvoo students are in charge of the project. I'm really glad that the students from Haaga Campus are working with us at the stand since there are not that many people in our own group (so help is needed!) and I think it's nice to know the students from other HAAGA-HELIA's Campuses, especially those who are studying the same field as we are. I'm looking forward to meet Haaga tourism students again and I wish we could arrange some kind of a "get-together event" before Christmas Holiday since this meeting was so tight and full of information (dunno if we have time for that though :( ).

Ahsan Nazmul, Mariliis Markna
and Sara Sinervo at Haaga Campus 26.11.2013.

Like I said earlier the project is going very well and I think we are a bit ahead of the schedule. Our Sponsorship Team has managed to get awesome sponsors e.g. Canon, EF and Hotellilaiva Hanko Helsinki and Marketing Team's posters and flyers will be printed soon. We are active in social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instragram, Pinterest, project's website) and Logistics Team is creating work shifts for us and the teachers. Activities Team has already confirmed all the activities we're going to have at the stand and just some small things need to be done to finilize them.

Activities Team giving an info session.
Ahsan Nazmul, Aron kovacs, Tatiana Martynova and Nina Vainio
25.11.2013

Alumni Team is working on with the invitations and food orders to the Alumni Event and BTF Team has started to collect all the important information to our Fair Folder as well as teach the rest of our group all the basic information we need to know about HAAGA-HELIA. Decoration Team has designed the stand's layout and  features in cooperation with FairPartner.

Decoration Team drawing the stand's layout.
Elizaveta Ragozina, Sara Sinervo and Tuyet Huynh.
8.11.2013

We're not having lotteries and competitions only at the actual stand but also before the fair! We gave away two tickets to Matka 2014 Nordic Travel Fair in our first Facebook lottery already on Nov 18th. People were asked to like a certain picture on our project's Facebook page and the tickets were raffled among the "likers". We are going to publish another lottery or a competition on our FB page soon..


Maija Turunen and Matthew Roblin
executing our first FB lottery on 18.11.2013

Busy, busy, busy!

I knew studying in HAAGA-HELIA was going to be hectic but this tightness of the schedules has surprised me! I haven't had the chance to write about my studies for ages..

We made a studytrip to Tallinn, Estonia, between 20th and 22nd of October. Our Matka Project's Logistics team planned and organised the whole  trip by themselves. They contacted the ferry and bus companies, planned and created activities and company visits and took care of all the little details during the trip. In Tallinn we visited Estravel, Carlson-Wagonlit Travel, Hotell Metropol (in which way also stayed during the trip), Sokos Hotel Viru and Kalev chocolate factory. The trip was a success and I personally learnt some new stuff about travel agencies and the travel business in Tallinn. Of course I also learned to know my classmates a bit better!

Here are some pictures from the trip!


Juuli Vähäuski enjoys the sea breeze on the way to Tallinn!
20.10.2013

Company visit to Carlson Wagonlit Travel.
Shoaib Ullah, Sonja Kosunen.
21.10.2013

Steve Cheng, Samuli Vahteristo and Maija Turunen
in front of Carlson Wagonlit Travel office.
21.10.2013



Me and my classmates enjoying a dinner
together in Hotell Metropol, Tallinn.
20.10.2013
 

Our Matka 2014 Project is going well. We are just a bit ahead of schedule and everything seems to go pretty smoothly (for now..). We need to get everything ready before we start our Christmas holiday on December 20th. As a Project Manager I have enjoyed this project very much. I have learnt so much about our Tobba13 group and I've also got some new perspectives on project management. I hope I'll have some more time later to tell what exactly have we been doing during these weeks..