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joining you guys a bit later than planned, however that shouldn't spoil the joy.

i worked the last years en multiple restaurant and love the hospitality industry. and i know that there are a lot of hospitality crazy people, who work hard and long hours with minimum wages and gratifications. However those times may be over because of the new generations who don't agree whit such terms. thus i want to research how managers could motivate this generation. .

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My name is Joshua, 24 years of age, self-proclaimed global citizen, yet German on paper.

I have spent my personalisation phase following the minor "co-creating events and designing experiences" due to two reason: 1 - I am kind of done with working in hotels. 2 - I will work for the rest of my life, so I'd rather further develop myself in an academic way while I still have the chance.

Regarding my thesis, I initially wanted to combine it with my greatest passion: languages (I speak 5). I wrote a proposal for the Regina Coeli Language Institute (Nonnen van Vught), but they declined. So now I am starting this course without actually knowing what my plan is. At the same though, I want to hand in ASAP. Once I have my topic, I am ready to commit to it. I really like qualitative research (don't mind transcribing at all!) and I am interested in the human element, motivation and psychology. I also find operational processes interesting. I strongly dislike marketing.

That's as precise as it gets, I'm afraid. Help

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My name is Anne Kragh-Hansen, I am 21 y/o and I am currently working in the hospitality industry at the front desk of a hotel in Made, where I live.

I am starting my BT in the first half year of the graduation phase, and after that I will be starting my personalisation which will be an internship. My BT will be an advisory report about staff motivation/psychological contract. I have not defined it completely yet, but I am hoping that I will be able to do so and fit in all the aspects which I like.

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My name is Tita Hukkinen and I am double degree student from Finland, so relatively new student in NHTV and only doing my final year of hotel management studies here.

My graduation year includes only the bachelor thesis. For my bachelor thesis, I am really interested to do social media marketing research. As involved before to one hotel company’s social media marketing I started to wonder why people don’t follow that much hotels on social media and what kind of content could interest the audience. My topic still needs to be narrowed and yet I don’t have any case company.

My aim on my career is to work in some point in the marketing department and therefore hope that my thesis will help me to go a little bit forward towards that goal.

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I am Mike Roovers, 25 years old and a Fast Track FM student. I live in Zevenbergen and working in hospitality for the past 7 years.

I will start my graduation in February at the HFP-department at the NHTV. My thesis is focused on improving mobility and accessibility in the city Breda and especially at the new NHTV-campus. The aim of my research will mostly be related to bike-innovation, which basically means: increase use of bikes and decrease the use of cars by students, staff, visitors at the campus.

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My name is Dirck van Heteren and I am an FM student who joined the NHTV in 2014.  I live in Breda and am a member of Student Association 't KAG.

From February until May I will be working on my BT and follow the BT Course to have some extra guidance  and deadline to work towards.
I want to write a design report with the goal to find out how to improve the influence- and negotiation skills of agents in the strategic workplace advisory and develop trainings and workshops to realise this.

From August till January my goal is to work at a strategic workplace advisory company in the Asian Pacific region to see how they interpret the trainings and workshops developed in the Western Europe and see what the cultural differences are.

After I am finished at the NHTV I want to work at a I company where I have to convince people, organise, take decisions, react to unknown situation, work in a company with young people, a modern company with profit objective and I do not want to sit behind my desk all day long.

Kind regards,
Dirck met Ck

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My name is Lieke Coppens and I am an HM student since 2012. Unfortunately graduating in curriculum 2.0 didn't work out for me so I started this year with a clean slate.

For my Personalization I did a placement at AB InBev in Breda during the last few months, where I worked at the Brand Management department for Leffe. I wrote a Professional Product about the importance of internal marketing.

From February until May I will be working on my Bachelor Thesis, which I will also write for AB InBev. The subject for my thesis still needs to be specified, but it will roughly be about the value of beer brands within hotels.

I hope to graduate in June, after which I want to start searching for a job within marketing/events.

See you all this afternoon!

Regards,
Lieke

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WHO AM I?
My name is Heline de Bruin and I will be joining in the first BT course as well. I do FM and live in Breda since I started at NTHV. The past years I worked at A la Carte, were an active member at G.D. Egidius (Xenia) and went to Kuala Lumpur for my internship. After all these fun things, I will start the next 'fun' part of my studies: writing my theses!

PERSONALIZATION PART
For my personalization I will participate in a research developed by Danny Han and Jelmer Weijschede. The reseach will be (in short) about 21st century skills of students related to the working population.

FUTURE
In the upcoming weeks I hope to find a topic related to this research and start to write a masterpiece about it. Probably like you all, I would like to gratuade this year. After my graduation I would like to travel for a while and when coming home, I will look at what the opportunities are at that moment.

See you all on monday! :)

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My name is Loes van Esch. I start my graduation with writing a thesis and afterwards I will do a placement. I am very interested in the topic 'social waste', so that will be the topic for my bachelor thesis as well. Social waste means that there are still many people that do not get the opportunity to work because they have no money, no certificates or disabilities. However, these people could be so useful for the hospitality industry. So I am gonna do research to find out, what benefitis there are for the hospitality industry to work with those people and how they should manage this.

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My name is Ilke Hellendoorn and for my personalisation phase I did an internship at Bilderberg Grand Hotel Wientjes in Zwolle. I worked in the Sales & banqueting department, which was really interesting. I decided to stay there for 4 days a week and write my thesis for the hotel. I talked to my manager about a topic, and we decided that the hotel market in Zwolle had changed a lot, and that it was interesting to do research about the competing hotels. Therefore, I will write an advice on how Wientjes can improve their position in the market.

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My name is John van Doorn and for my personalisation phase I completed the NHTV Wide Minor Resilient Entrepreneurship. During this minor I developed a concept business model concerning the combination of hospitality & healthcare and this combination will be the topic for my bachelor thesis as well. Notwithstanding, the business plan needs a very adequate and detailed explanation, so let the hard work begin!

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My name is Michiel Aerts and my personalisation was for the Drie Leliën in Vught. I have developed an interactive excel based program for managing all real estate owned by the company. For my thesis my plan is to write an advisory report. Next week I expect to know more about the company to whom the report is designed for. I applied for a function as junior project manager at Philips real estate.

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My name is Luuk Eerden. For my personalisation I did a placement at Hotel Nassau Breda, Autgraph Collection by Marriott. For this company I've conducted a research on how to improve their internal communication. I am still a little in doubt regarding my BT topic. Although, I am interested in employee empowerment I still need to determine my research question. So if anyone has a great idea, feel free to reach out! :)

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My name is Maartje. For my personalisation I attended the minor Sustainability, Social Responsability and Professional Identity. My plan is to write an advisory report for my BT. In this report I would like to research how to create a hotel that is 100% sustainable. I would like to do this by looking at the 17 sustainability goals. This is not only about the planet but also about people and profit. To narrow it down I want to focus on hotels situated in the Netherlands.

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My name is Sisley and as a fast track student I will only have to write my BT so without the personalisation part. I will perform a research for The Hospitality Group in Den Bosch, this company organizes various events for several brands and other companies. Currently there are involved in starting up their own catering department and that's where my focus will be. My advisory report will be about the logistics and supply chain management. However we still have to determine a concrete research question.

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Hi everyone!

My name is Rick Dahmen and I performed a placement at the F&B Department of Landal Greenparks Het Vennenbos. During my placement I implemented a Food-waste monitor system at the kitchen of the company. I will write my advisory thesis about which adjustments that lead to food-waste reduction in the buffet restaurant of Landal het Vennenbos are considered most feasible.
I choose the Food-waste topic because it is considered as one of the biggest problems for our environment.

I will focus on the enormous food-waste problem at buffet restaurants and eventually come up with an advisory for the company; Landal Greenparks Het Vennenbos.

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Hi everyone!

My name is Leonie Jacobs and since I am a fast track student I only have to do the Bachelor Thesis without a personalisation. I will write my thesis about how employees can react to innovation and new technology at work. The research is focussed on the dutch travel industry since this is a business with on-going change. I will work together with Annemiek van der Schaft, who is currently writing her PhD about this subject and my thesis will be a small part of the total research she is doing. However, my thesis itself will off course be written individually.

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My name is Pieter van Bussel, I did a guest satisfaction research for my personalisation at Ronald McDonald Huis Sophia Rotterdam. As addition to this research I want to create a star rating system for the Ronald McDonald Houses in the Netherlands. The aim off this system is that the houses can check how they are operating and what they can offer. This system will be an intern system so it will not be communicated to the guests.

At the moment the houses don't really know where they standing, so I hope that this system will help them to improver their overall performance.

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My name is Eefje and I will write my BT about Nudging: this basically means to arrange the choice situation in a way that makes desirable outcome the easiest or the most attractive option to chose. I will apply Nudging to the sustainable part of hotels, by researching and triggering the unconscious behaviour of guests. In this way, (hopefully) the experience of the guest wil stay the same, while they are being more sustainable without noticing.

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HI my name is Dominique Beekhof, and will be writing my BT about sufficient sport facilities in Offices.  I have chosen this topic due to my own passion in sports where I try to qualify for Weightlifting Nationals. Juggling sports, school, home front and Boyfriend in my internship last year, made me aware of the lack of support within a company to live a Healthy lifestyle. I belief with sufficient environmental support and knowledge, overweight / obesity doesn’t have to be as high as it is.  By focusing on office facilities I cooperate my passion and “profession” interest into one Bachelor Thesis product.

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Hi everyone!

My name is Yoy Bergs and I will be your coach for the upcoming weeks. I recently started working at the NHTV Academy of Hotel and Facility Management as a junior lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Investigative Abilities and the BT course. I personally have a background in Facility Management, Health Promotion and Work & Organisational Psychology, but up for discussing and brainstorming about any topic!

I am here to help you out so you can also have an epic graduation ceremony any time soon :)

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My name is Elesier Angel and most people call me Angel. For my personalisation I did a minor in Co-creating events and designing experiences at the NHTV academy for leisure. For my bachelor thesis I am still in doubt regarding the specific topic. I would like to do a research about the green key certification in the hospitality industry in the Netherlands.
I am looking forward to this course and also enthusiastic for writing my thesis. See you tomorrow!

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Hello everyone, my name is Demi Christensen and I was recently involved in the SCITHOS research project. This project aims to find solutions to overcrowding, pollution, noise and numerous other problems in a city based on the tourism sector. Via smart solution they aim to generate income for the city and create opportunities for its businesses and employment for its residents. For my thesis I want to focus on improving liveability in a city and how they deal with popularity in the future. However, I still have to determine a concrete research question.