Program Outcomes
By the end of the internship, you will have:
- 350+ hours of verified internship experience in a luxury resort setting (40 hours per week over ten weeks).
- An official certificate of participation and completion of the internship to strengthen your résumé, portfolio, and future applications for jobs or graduate study.
- Firsthand insight into how a world-class, high-end resort operates day to day, from guest-facing service to behind-the-scenes coordination across departments.
- Concrete examples and stories you can draw on in interviews, cover letters, and personal statements when explaining why you want to pursue a career in hospitality, tourism, business, or service management.
- New perspectives on culture, service, and global guests—plus lasting connections with fellow interns, supervisors, and professionals in a global resort company.
Many students leave programs like this with stronger confidence in their career direction, greater comfort in fast-paced service environments, and a clearer story about who they are as future hospitality professionals or service-focused leaders.
Challenge, inspire, prepare
This program is designed to challenge you academically, inspire you personally, and prepare you professionally—while you experience one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
Academically, you are pushed to move beyond textbooks, lectures, and case studies into real hospitality environments, where you watch experienced professionals apply service, management, and leadership principles with real guests and real business pressures. You learn to ask better questions about guest experience, operations, and team dynamics, connect what you see in the resort to concepts you’ve studied in class, and reflect critically on what kind of hospitality or business professional you hope to become.
On a personal level, living and working in Greece over the summer invites you to step outside your comfort zone, adapt to a new culture, and navigate a different language and daily rhythm. You gain confidence as you interact with international guests, collaborate with colleagues from around the world, and build relationships with local staff—discovering more about your own strengths, values, and resilience along the way.
Professionally, you leave with meaningful, documented internship experience in a world-class, high-end resort, a deeper understanding of how hospitality operations function, and concrete stories you can share in interviews, cover letters, and personal statements. You also build intercultural skills—such as communicating across cultural differences, anticipating diverse guest expectations, and respecting different approaches to service and work—that are increasingly essential in global hospitality and service-focused careers.
All of this unfolds against the backdrop of Greece’s coastline, islands, and historic cities, giving you space to reflect, recharge, and see your future in hospitality, tourism, or business from a wider, more global perspective.