All of you what do you feel your strengths were in this project?

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I felt I wrote a good pitch, I felt that I took on a bit of a leader role when I was present (other things stopped me from not being here at points) and I felt that I did well in the Q&A

I suggested a large percentage of the locations before we all agreed on Gdańsk. I also spent a long time working on 2 sides of the brochure, sadly the file corrupted on one of them and i lost it. The other side included restaurants and bars that vary in prices to suit everyone, direction's to the local beach and a map pinpointing all places mentioned on the brochure. I think this is a strong point because i worked really, really hard.

And who do you feel deserves to be fired based on the merits of this task?

I said at the beginning that we needed a certain target market, and I compiled the advertisement which I felt captured what point we were trying to get across.

Poth, only because of the level of effort loukas put into the task from a design point of view.. fair play to Poth for doing his best with the pitch though

Well I don't think I should be fired and I honestly see a fantastic candidate in Loukas which showed during this task

So due to process of elimination it'd have to be Jake.

But I feel we all have done a great job

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This is a hard one but sadly i would have to go for Poth only because i feel like his pitch was good but could have stronger, when you mentioned flights i thought his answer would have been stronger as he posted flight information earlier in the thread.

Based on the fact the focus of this was not a design task, do you not feel your efforts could have been better spent focusing more on trying to gather as much information or research as you could to make a stronger case for your final piece? Poth you yourself started market research, why did this not come through?

I do agree, what with people being busy the results weren't produced to a high enough standard and the research suffered because of this

I did do a lot of research when I had time to do it which was rare during this task due to personal circumstances, but not much of it covered the grounds of what would have been appropriate for the presentation.

I did share the results saying people wanted a family holiday, but the team seemed very keen on an adventure holiday, so I had to go with my team.

Yes i do. But i was instructed to create the brochure so thats exactly what i did. I did send some information on various locations as i told the other candidates i could do more before i started designing.I mentioned this unique bar that wasn't mentioned that i saw as a selling point for both the young adults and and backpackers http://www.brovarnia.pl/en/.

To an extent I agree with this, but I think I made up for this with personal research and on top of that the other things that I did, so personally I think the positives heavily outnumber the negatives.

The team also spent a lot of time at the start looking at places like Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. These are 3 massive tourist destinations and then you all wasted more time discussing building lodges and activities centers etc(which would have raised questions about taking jobs from the local community/businesses and planning permission etc) and was miles away from the objective of this project.

Who was responsible for most of this time wasting and why did nobody curb this idea sooner?

What personal research did you do?

Myself and Loukas were guilty of this, and Pothuthic made the point of the task clearer, I think I let go of the prospect a bit quicker than Loukas

Yesterday I researched the history of Gdansk, I researched reviews on the hotel that I suggested and I looked at the 4 'adventurer' attractions

I'll ask the questions.

I did bring this up constantly if you remember, from the start I suggested 4 European countries that weren't as popular (Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia and Malta)

I also made it clear that I did not agree with the brazil or Australia ideas and I felt the whole lodges and activity centre ideas werent what we were tasked with, so I do feel like the other two were the two wasting time.

I tried to curb this idea, but I kept being told that it was a good idea :/

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Me, i would say i wasted the most time. I mentioned New Zealand because New Zealand was the only country saw a drop in british tourists in the last year.

The top 6 countries for short term visits to New Zealand

Year ended Nov. 2012 || Year ended Nov. 2013
The amount of tourists in years 2012 & 2013

Australia
1,299,600 - 1,350,032

China, People's Republic of
194,752 231,120

United States
177,856 196,880

United Kingdom
191,360 190,816

Japan
69,968 75,052

Germany
62,656 68,384

i also mentioned Ouro Preto in Brazil cause it was a part of Brazil that not many people would know about. Looking back i could have focused more on the smaller countries of the world.

Loukas you say you were instructed to create the brochure, but this was a team effort. If you could see things were struggling why did you not step in and correct them or are you happy to pass the blame to one of your team mates?


To you all, who was the one in charge here or leading this task or were you all just scrambling around trying to make things work?

To be honest 500 people isn't a huge drop really? Especially for a country that is so highly visited.

With that point, the task did say to promote a lesser known country rather than a lesser known part of a very well known country.

There wasn't a clear leader, nobody appointed themselves and it was all a bit of a mess