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Help Keep the Arctic Wild
Internship in sustainable tourism development in the Arctic in the summer 2009:
Together with the Svalbard Villmarkssenter, Telemarkzone is offering an internship in the field of sustainable tourism development, specification marketing and communication, in the Arctic of Svalbard, Norway. This internship is an outcome of the Ski for Nature partnership on Spitsbergen and a unique opportunity to spend some time in the Arctic, and learn about sustainable tourism and business development, as well as marketing and communication, in a very international, fun working environment, with plenty of space to discover the wilderness in the midnight sun.
The intern is expected to take any given task needed to help the Vatviks and become a member of the team. A main outcome shall be a complete rework of the website content to better communicate the sustainability aspects of the business with the many feedback loops and side effects there are. It means adding new content, developing own ideas of further products (such as business trainings in the Polar night, wellness, also new “eco” souvenirs like a shirt from organic cotton or functional merino wool with a new design, logo, funny sentences etc.), better communicating the “sustainability” of the Villmarkssenter business, a translation of the English content into German, editing existing texts, rethinking the whole website structure with links and interactivity, adding pictures, videos etc. This work will require a lot of computer work, but always mixed with exciting work and activities outside in the beautiful Arctic wilderness, as well as personal interaction with and interviewing of the Vatvik family in order to best match their wishes and demands.
The intern has been selected in May 2009 from students of the bachelor study program "Tourism Management" at the University of Applied Sciences, HTW Chur, Switzerland, and takes place in July and August 2009. We will inform about new developments here on this site.
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