PIM welcomes students in the School of Hospitality & Tourism from Seneca College, Canada to spend three weeks based in Bangkok, Thailand as part of a Faculty-Led Program Abroad (FLPA), Hospitality Industry and Tourism focusing on Thai culture and incorporating a variety of field trips and weekend activities, they will immerse themselves in Thai culture, while learning about the local hospitality industry and eco-friendly alternative tourism from the lecturers of the Hospitality Industry and Tourism program, Faculty of Management Sciences, PIM.
We have student representatives who also talk about what impression they have of this program.
• Chelsea Noiles
3rd year Hospitality – Hotel & Restaurant Services Management student
“I’m interested in hospitality business development so I wanted to take part in the program to Thailand so I can kind of familiarize myself with traveling in different cultures and kind of just learn the hospitality industry and different area.
it’s nice being able to learn like a different course. Like, the cooking classes, Thai culture. I really enjoyed the Thai language course that we took and we did a traditional Thai coffee which is really was fun.
For PIM, I like how nice all the students are in the faculty seems to be really engaged with like all of the students and all the programming and the campus is really intricate. I like all the different buildings and I like how they have built like the Tara building that I think so interesting. It is so many facilities for the students to use. I find it really wonderful and intriguing that there’s so many opportunities for the students to have here.
I would say it’s totally worth it for being here. The time has been flying by. I feel like I’ve learned so much and such a short period of time.”
• Arjun Kachi
3rd year Hospitality – Hotel & Restaurant Services Management student
“This program is definitely life-changing. I’ve gained so much knowledge about Thailand and its culture of Thailand. I know how the people of Thailand are and how you guys teach over here and how things are done in the college and university. I’m so fascinated by this and it’s really unbelievable. I like it so much and this program definitely is something I would remember whole my life.
We’ve been to the big statue of lord Buddha, the big one I don’t know the temple name but it was something I’d never seen something like that. It’s so beautiful and then we went to Pattaya beach we went to the resort and we went to the PIM campus over there which was so beautiful.
If I go back home Definitely going to miss the food. I’m going to miss the food over here so much because every day I’m trying something new. then how cultures people are like how they follow the tradition and in Western countries the traditions are good but over here it’s overwhelming. I will definitely miss a smile of people over here. Definitely miss that.
This is a completely different experience. You learn so much about Thai culture, Thai food, Thai people, all the drinks and all that throughout this program. it’s definitely I would recommend everyone to at least do this course once and visit Thailand at least once to see how traditionally enrich this country is and especially be on PIM campus. I will definitely recommend it.”
• Alijah Smith
3rd year Flight Services – Operations & Cabin Management student
“This program is like I can’t even put into words. I feel like it’s super educational in a sense where we are really indulging ourselves within the culture. We seeing the temples and learning the language we’re learning the food. We kind of get a little bit of everything which I really love and I also loved how we were able to have fun so for example, we went on a trip to the beach and so you really get that not just the tourism aspect of it but being emerged as a local as well because they shared us where they go for lunch and even students here would talk to me I was thinking oh no one’s going to talk to me I’m just going to stay with my group but I found that other students were also interested in who I am where I’m coming from with my program and why am I here and it really made me feel a lot more adapted as well because I was able to talk to other students at PIM not just my colleagues that I came with.
I would say that you’re going to learn a lot every day you’re learning something new so I highly recommend it. You need to sign up. You won’t regret it. You got to learn so much about the culture and also about yourself. I also feel like that and you’ll make new friends. I feel like every day is a new experience and you’re going to be amazed by how much beauty it is that this here.”