City Travel Review - Travel Writing Gap Projects in Berlin

Name: City Travel Review - Travel Writing Gap Projects in Berlin
Brand: City Travel Review
SKU: 51218
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

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Germany
- Berlin

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Advertising Art History Communications Design Education History Hospitality Journalism Media Relations Tourism

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Apartment

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English

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Costs Include:

*Pre-departure information
*Arrival meet + greet pick up
*Language classes
*Welcome breakfast
*Accommodation in shared apartment
*Accompanied project related activities
*Professional workshops with qualified staff
*Feedback to aid in completion of project
*Downloadable copy of the E-book

Last Updated: Jul 09, 2018

Last Reviewed: Sep 22, 2014

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About Program

Employers today value work experience very much that a straight A school report is no longer the trump card. A gap year placement is necessary to add highlights in your CV and thus allows you to stand in advantage. By working in the field before entering the real game, not only can you determine if that is the dream job earlier, you will also be equipped with relevant skills that help you develop your career smoother later on.

City Travel Review organizes gap projects which integrate work, study and travel. We aim to provide opportunities for young people to gain work experience, learn a foreign language and explore a new culture in one of our destinations in Europe, including Berlin, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Madrid and Lyon. With the help of journalism workshops and meetings, project members are expected to do extensive research on the city and create a unique and publishable guide for young travelers.

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You will develop solid hands-on experience working as travel researchers and journalists. This project is a perfect testing ground for potential travel researchers and review journalists.
You are entitled to travel around and get to know the city in and out. By the end of your stay, you can tell the best sites, cafes and restaurants in town like a local.
Intensive language classes are integrated, so you will pick up a new language from scratch or polish a language that you already knew.
Workshops are conducted by experienced journalists and professionals that you can pick up relevant skills quickly.
Working with a bunch of young people from different backgrounds guarantees your trip is always exciting and fun!

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Overall i really enjoyed the ctr project! I was looking for great experience but also the chance to learn some language skills before I was tied down to a full time job and just don't get the chance. I was really glad i took the opportunity as these days i really don't have the time and am not one of those that can work a full day and then study at night. The project incorporated learning a language while working in a team to create an online travel guide which is then published. The team was great fun and there was a kinda of uni feel to it. i have sinced used the project for other experiences and often look back on fun memories and even still keep in contact with some of the others on the team. In summary if you like learning wanna practise a language and get real work experience then this maybe for you. It was no walk in the park, was hard work at times especially with deadlines and keeping up with language classes but was for sure worthwhile and definitely quitethe experience!!!

What would you improve about this program?

In general as a team we all got along but it can be difficult working with tose you don't know well especially when the honeymoon period ends if you now what i mean? Some of the deadlines were quite hard to meet and it would have been useful to have some team working sessions like i was told they have on the Edinburgh project.

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What position do you hold at City Travel Review? What has been your career path so far?

I'm Project Manager for the Lyon project. I'm Italian, and have lived in Lyon since 2004. Outside CTR, I have always been a journalist, officially since 1997, although I published my first story on a local paper in 1990. I have mostly worked as a freelance, both for Italian and international media.

In Lyon I have worked since 2000 for Euronews, both as a freelancer and under contracts. My last assignment for them was as Web Producer and Social Media Manager for the program Generation Y. I'm now starting my own business, Phaeluna - (inter)active culture.

What do you most enjoy about your role?

I enjoy working in an international environment. The team is multilingual and multicultural, and the students come from all over the world. I also love working with young people, I feel as if I had more to learn from them than to teach them.

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What makes City Travel Review's programs unique?

I suppose they are ambitious: at the same time working, learning and having fun. Students visit the city, meet the people, learn a language and how to write a guide, and at the end of a three-week program they leave with real skills they didn't have when they arrived. I have seen students who didn't even know where to begin to write an article become perfectly proficient and able to write for any major magazine.

What's your favorite story of a program participant's City Travel Review experience?

Charlotte is a British young girl who was on our first program, in 2012. She is a brilliant writer and wished to stay in Lyon. She was very motivated and very driven, so I helped her get an internship at Euronews. The rest is all her doing: she was able to show her own abilities, which were enhanced by the skills she had learned in our program, and when I gave up my post, she took over.

I must point out that I had no part in the editor-in-chief's choice to take her instead of another of the candidates to the job: she was just the right person to do it. But if she had never joined the program, nothing of all of this would have happened.

What tips do you have for someone considering a City Travel Review program?

Be flexible and resilient. We do everything we can to make your stay as comfortable as possible, but we don't babysit you and we also try to prepare you for real life situations: uncomfortable deadlines, hard work, being able to organize yourselves in spite of unforeseen events... City Travel Review is for everyone, but not for anyone.

Sally Maki

Administrative Staff Member

Isabel Gibert

Project Assistant

About City Travel Review

City Travel Review aims to provide opportunities for young people to work overseas, learn a foreign language and embrace a different culture. Our projects mainly focus on travel writing and real life experience. Project members will work as a team to conduct research and write reviews. At the end of the project, the team publishes a stunning online...