The 3-credit course: Course meets Wednesdays from 2:30-4:30 starting in January 2005. Class sessions will involve research, trip preparation and team presentation work. Course will not meet every Wednesday but all course sessions, pre-work, assignments and events during the trip, and post-trip meetings and assignments are required. Limited fundraising opportunities will be available once the class starts.
Course competencies include:
- Familiarization with N. Ireland and Ireland history, culture, social and business issues
- Examine current trends (focus on health/wellness) in both N. Ireland and the U.S. and relate those trends to overall marketing and tourism business strategies
- Practice marketing/management skills and gain perspectives to work successfully in the global marketplace
- Enhance abilities to communicate, work on teams, and create and deliver presentations
The Trip: During the March 11-20, 2005 trip, you’ll enjoy famous Irish hospitality. This learning adventure will include tours of some of the greatest cultural and historical sites that Ireland and N. Ireland have to offer. See trip itinerary for all the exciting details. The core of our visit will revolve around spending 3 days with our hosts from Fermanagh College in Enniskillen, N. Ireland. MATC has had a long and successful relationship with this college and we look forward to learning with them once again. In addition to networking and sharing information about home towns and countries, you’ll explore the business implications of the megatrend, wellness.
Students will create and share presentations on how this trend is playing out and explore business, marketing, tourism, management and service implications of this trend in each country. After an engaging business conference featuring speakers on how this trend is impacting the world of tourism, marketing and management, we’ll continue our tour through breathtaking scenery, excellent shopping and, of course, a pub or two! Your learning adventure awaits!! |
Price per person: $2100.00 (based on double occupancy, single supplement available)
A deposit of $500 per person is due by November 15, 2004.
Final payment is due by December 15, 2004.
TRIP IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 25 REGISTRANTS |
For more information , see Jack Hart, Hospitality and Tourism Instructor, office 211I, phone 246-6197, email jhart@matcmadison.edu or Turina Bakken, Marketing Instructor, office 257, phone 246-6156, email Bakken@matcmadison.edu
Ireland/N. Ireland Trip Day by Day Tentative Itinerary
Friday, March 11, 2005 - CHICAGO
A deluxe private motor coach will transport you from Madison to O’Hare International Airport. This evening our Irish journey be gins as we board our Aer Lingus wide bodied jet to Dublin departing at 6:10 p.m. After dinner, relax with a book, movie or nap. (Meals en route)
Saturday , March 12 , 2005 – DUBLIN – ENNISKILLEN
Cead Mile Failte! One Hundred Thousand Welcomes! Arrive in Dublin at 07:30am. Upon clearing customs, we will be met by our friendly Irish tour director and escorted to our deluxe motor coach. Enjoy a stop to get some breakfast and a coffee wake-me up before starting your city tour. Dublin is known for its neo-classical buildings and elegant Georgian terraces. Our first visit will be St. Patrick’s Cathedral where according to history, religious converts were baptized by St. Patrick in the 5 th century. We continue on to Trinity College and the Book of Kells, where we can view the ancient vellum manuscript of the four gospels in Latin, which were produced circa 800. Continue to the Guinness Storehouse. Heady smells from the adjacent brewery welcome you to this museum and shrine to the “Black Stuff”. The self-guiding tour takes us around tableaus describing the brewing process, but the top attraction is the huge display of Guinness’ memorable and amusing advertisements down through the years: the ostrich with the pint glass stuck in its throat, the farmer pulling his horse and cart, “My Goodness My Guinness”, “ See What Toucan Do”, and other old favorites. After free time in Dublin we will board our coach and head to Enniskillen, Fermanagh County, Northern Ireland.
Sunday, March 13, 2005 – ENNISKILLEN
After breakfast, local sightseeing of Fermanagh County and South Donegal is on the agenda today.
Monday, March 14, 2005 - ENNISKILLEN
After breakfast, we’ll walk to our host college, Fermanagh College , and meet our gracious hosts and their students. Attend a welcome reception and tour of the college, participate in student networking, and share presentations that were created in class.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 – ENNISKILLEN
After breakfast, we’ll continue our work with Fermanagh College , including more student networking and discussion of presentations. After lunch, attend a Business Conference in Enniskillen where you will hear presenters on topics such as tourism, management, marketing and customer service.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - ENNISKILLEN
After breakfast, you’ll attend more of the Business Conference in Enniskillen in cooperation with our Fermanagh College hosts. Enjoy an evening networking session and celebration.
Thursday, March 17, 2005 – ANTRIM COAST - GIANT’S CAUSEWAY - BUSHMILLS DISTILLERY
After a filling Irish breakfast, we depart on a full day’s touring of Northern Ireland. Our drive will take us northeast from Enniskillen through wild glens and along wonderful coast roads to the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland’s best scenic attraction, with the Giant’s Causeway as its highlight. Here the cliffs are at their most spectacular as they rise over 300 feet around a series of rocky bays. The Causeway itself is formed of some 37,000 basalt columns, mostly hexagonal, that slope in a narrowing and declining shelf into the sea. They were made by cooling lava after a volcanic eruption some 60 million years ago. Legend has it that the giant, Finn McCool laid down the causeway as stepping stones to the Hebridean island of Staffa where his lover lived. After time to explore the rock formations it is a short drive inland to the Bushmills Distillery, where we enjoy a tour and tasting of the many fine whiskey’s distilled here. Return to Enniskillen for your overnight.
Friday, March 18, 2005 – ENNISKILLEN - GALWAY
After a full Irish breakfast we leave Enniskillen and head for the Irish Republic and Galway. We will stop to see Belleek Parian China being made in the town of Belleek before entering Ireland. Enjoy the beautiful mountains, lakes and green hillsides divided by rambling stonewalls on our way to Galway, “the city of Tribes”. See the Spanish Arch, built in 1594 and St. Nicholas Church where Christopher Columbus prayed before his voyage to the New World. After some free time in Galway, transfer to our hotel.
Saturday, March 19, 2005 – GALWAY – BUNRATTY
This morning we drive around the shores of Galway Bay and through the Burren Country, which is a unique region of limestone hills where many rare flowers thrive in the sheltered crevices. At the coast of County Clare we will stop to see the Cliffs of Moher, an impressive wall of rock that rises to heights of almost 700 feet above the Atlantic Ocean and stretches five miles along the coast. Continue to Shannonside and Bunratty where you will have time to do last minute shopping at the famous Blarney Woollen Mills, a cluster of shops just below your hotel in Bunratty. Across the street is the famous “Durty Nellie’s Pub”. Stop in for a pint when you are tired from all the shopping. This evening a very special event awaits you, a Medieval Banquet Dinner at Bunratty Castle.
Sunday, March 20, 2005 – BUNRATTY - MADISON via Shannon and Chicago
We bid farewell to Bunratty this morning as we begin our journey home. There will be ample time for shopping at the Duty Free Store before boarding Aer Lingus flight 125, departing at 11:45 p.m. arriving Chicago at 3:50 p.m. You will be met at the airport and transported back to Madison by deluxe private motor coach. Once home, you can unpack your bags, develop your photos and remember and reflect on the fabulous learning adventure you experienced in Ireland and N. Ireland!.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS—Please read carefully
Cancellations: In addition to airline, hotel and tour cancellation penalties, all cancellations will be subject to a $50.00 per person cancellation fee. Cancellation between November 15, 2004 and December 15, 2004 will result in a forfeiture of an additional $300. Cancellation between December 16, 2004 and January 26, 2005 will result in a forfeiture of $650.00 per person. Cancellation between January 25, 2005 and February 17, 2005, will result in a forfeiture of $1123.00 per person. Cancellation between February 16, 2005 and March 3, 2005, will result in forfeiture $1315 per person. Cancellation between March 2, 2005 – March 10, 2005 will result in a forfeiture of $1602. Cancellation on the day of departure or no show, forfeits the entire cost of the trip. In addition to the above costs, any applicable airline fees and administrative fees will be assessed at the time of cancellation. Your Aer Lingus ticket is fully non-refundable and subject to change penalties and restrictions.
Airline travel: All special requests that we receive for seating arrangements (noted on your reservation form) are forwarded to the airline. We cannot guarantee or be responsible in the event that your request is not honored by the airline. With a group booking, deviations from the roundtrip group flights are not allowed nor is it possible to accrue miles to a frequent flyer program.
Responsibility: Brookfield Travel acts as an independent contractor and arranges travel related services, and does not in any manner directly provide accommodations, transportation, meals or other travel related services. Brookfield Travel shall not be liable for any loss, damage or injury to person or property, any delayed departures, missed carrier connections, substitutions of accommodations or of common carrier equipment, substitution of accommodations, or of common carrier equipment, termination of service, changes in fares or for cancellation of reservations which are beyond its control and without notice. Brookfield Travel reserves the right to alter the itinerary as may be necessary with or without notice.
Initial Deposit of $500 is due no later than November 15, 2004.
Full payment is due by December 15, 2004
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