We spent Friday afternoon preparing for our final presentation and made some CDs with all of our files and a 40 page detailed document that explained all of our recommendations. We take a lot for granted at home with having ample printing & photocopying facilities at our fingertips. Printing here was a huge challenge and we had to convince our hotel to do us a favor and print out our large presentation so we could then copy it and distribute it to our clients. After several failed attempts at printing, we finally got it to work and we were then ready to go for our big meeting on Monday. CD-burning was another challenge as we had difficult finding CDs. After going to 2 stores we were able to buy 20 CDs in total.
Our final presentation was held on Monday at the Tourism Authority offices. About 20 other people were in attendance from other Yogyakarta tourism-related organizations. Daniel, Nicole, Yuan Yuan & I took turns presenting. Yuan Yuan focused on the summary of our international tourism survey, Nicole focused on recommendations on how to improve the tourist experience in Yogykarta, Daniel focused on improving collaboration and networking between the Yogyakarta tourism stakeholders, and I focused on a new marketing slogan for Yogyakarta and recommending updates to our client's website, social media presence, and their marketing materials. We were all very proud of our final presentation & put a lot of effort into leaving our clients with written material about our recommendations that they can reference after we leave.
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| Getting ready to give our final presentation - L to R - Nicole, Yuan Yuan, Daniel & me |
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| Presenting our final recommendations |
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| The materials we prepared for our final presentation |
On Tuesday, we went back to our client offices to meet with the director of the agency to discuss our recommendations in more detail. We were very pleased to hear that earlier in the morning, he had a meeting with the Sultan of Yogyakarta where they discussed our project. The Sultan requested that an action plan be put together to start implementing our team's recommendations. We couldn't have asked for a better ending to our project. We are going to miss the wonderful team we worked with at the Tourism Agency. They gave us great insight into living, working & exploring around Yogyakarta and we will miss their friendship and smiles. We hope that our recommendations can make a difference here in Yogyakarta and once implemented, we hope that more international tourists will come to this great city.
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| Our team - Nicole, Me, Yuan Yuan, Pak Herro, Ibu Marlina, Daniel & Ibu Ida |
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