Student, traveller, worker, tourist...
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Hi, I am a Brazilian student/worker living in Europe for the last 3 years and some months... and during this time i got the tourism/hostel job bug...
Yep, there is a name for it!
I have graduated in Advertising & Marketing and Tourism back in Brazil, where i used to work for tourism and travelling all over Brazil, at that time i got the travel bug that drove to 3 trips to US (northeast, southeast and california), and travel to Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina during that time i first experienced a hostel stay.
Finally i got in Europe where i set myself in Barcelona and from there ive been in England, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Studying in Barcelona Spanish and Gastronomy i had the chance to live and work in 3 different hostels, i have worked in bars and clubs to. I had a 2 months working and staying in a london hostel another 3 months experience in Paris and now im taking a season in Rome to improve my italian.
Next obvious thing: open or be a partner in a new hostel, and thats why im joying the forum!
Hope we can get further in this guys!
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16 years
Well, that's a good question!
We all know that its a lot of investment to go through by your own, and even with all the money that i can come up, i would still be the only one that know the business...
So i would say that i could join a project on the way or i could do come up with one if there where anymore persons open for it.
My main locations would be the market that i know: Europe, US and South America!
16 years
I too am looking to start a hostel. I've been thinking of opening one in Central/South America, southeast Asia, or possibly Europe as well. I'm from the US currently working in financial services trying to save money to start a business. I don't care to open a hostel in the US, I've been here my whole life and I would like to live and work somewhere new and exciting. I've traveled extensively in Europe and just got back from a trip to Thailand. My father just opened a hotel in Thailand which is where I was staying, it's also where a I got my screen name. Have you put together a business plan or are you still in the brainstorming phase?? ... I'm still brainstorming and looking for like-minded people to possibly pursue this further. Let me know what kind of hostel you're thinking of starting. Thanks.
16 years
If you're looking to open a hostel in Southeast Asia, suggest you consider one of the many white-sand beach islands of the Philippines. it's also near Thailand where your father is
email me at [email][email protected][/email]
best regards
Green Mango Inn:D
Manila, The Philippines
P.S. all people in the Philippines speak good English, because the only former American colony in all Asia...
16 years
P.S. all people in the Philippines speak good English, because the only former American colony in all Asia...
Ha! Another interesting historic article to read, about how did the US get the Philippines! :D
Excerpt:
Aguinaldo wrote retrospectively in 1899 that he had met with U.S. Consuls E. Spencer Pratt and Rounceville Wildman in Singapore between 22 and 25 April, and that they persuaded him to again take up the mantle of leadership in the revolution, with Pratt communicating with Admiral Dewey by telegram, passing assurances from Dewey to Aguinaldo that the United States would at least recognize the Independence of the Philippines under the protection of the United States Navy, and adding that there was no necessity for entering into a formal written agreement because the word of the Admiral and of the United States Consul were in fact equivalent to the most solemn pledge that their verbal promises and assurance would be fulfilled to the letter and were not to be classed with Spanish promises or Spanish ideas of a man’s word of honour.
Full article here.
16 years
Wow! Thanks for the reminder of this often forgotten part of USA and Philippine history...fascinating! hope Americans not offended, but the Philippines from 1890s to early 1900s was the first Vietnam War (or Iraq War) of the U.S. when American troops fought Filipino revolutionaries...replacing Spain as the new colonizer...today, all people in the Philippines speak English, although a lot of the culture and Catholic traditions are very Spanish...
The Philippines is the only former Spanish colony (333 years) and the only former American colony in all Asia, so we're kind of mixed up in an exotic way... ideal for tourists to experience....
Green Mango Inn, a hostel in Manila, The Philippines :)
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