This was a great advanced internship in hotel sales and marketing. The company recognized this as my second internship in the field and assigned tasks accordingly. No filing or copying here. I was given the freedom and the budget to design print materials and execute a promotional campaign targeting local businesses. I wrote a crucial part of the hotel's 2007 marketing plan doing a situational analysis of the local real estate market and projecting its effect on the hotel environment. I was also the go-to person in designing presentations and materials for important citywide meetings and meetings with corporate officers and executives. Overall I thought the experience was enriching and truly beneficial.
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Go through your school's business or hospitality managment schools. Starwood recruits at most major top tier universities for winter externships and summer internships for their thousands of properties worldwide. You have the best chance of landing an internship if you first do a winter externship which is a 1 week unpaid internship in a department of your choice at a hotel. You can also apply for these opportunities in the career section of the starwood website.
Summer 2005
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Boston, MA
Reviewed on 02/19/2007