Marketing Internship - GetawaywithGod.com
MARKETING & FAITH-BASED TRAVEL EDUCATIONAL INTERNSHIP
Position Type: Unpaid Educational Internship
Minimum Requirement: 150 school credit internship hours
Location: Elite Travel Inc., Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Website: getawaywithGOD.com
EXPLORE FAITH. EXPERIENCE ADVENTURE.
Getaway With God is a faith-based travel brand created to connect Christian travelers, churches, ministries, families, students, pastors, and faith communities with meaningful travel experiences.
Our mission is rooted in the belief that travel can be more than simply visiting a destination. Travel can create opportunities for fellowship, spiritual growth, education, service, reflection, cultural understanding, and experiencing God's creation.
Elite Travel Inc. currently offers and promotes faith-based travel opportunities including Christian tours, church and ministry travel, pastor-focused travel programs, seminars at sea, retreat experiences, student tours, and other spiritually meaningful journeys. The website also promotes discounted airfare assistance for church, ministry, and Christian groups.
This internship provides a student with an opportunity to study how marketing principles can be applied specifically to the Christian travel and faith-based tourism industry.
The internship is designed to provide educational instruction and supervised practical experience in marketing, communications, social media, digital advertising, content development, audience research, church outreach, travel promotion, and campaign evaluation.
PURPOSE OF THE INTERNSHIP
The primary purpose of this internship is to provide the student with an educational experience connecting classroom marketing concepts with the real-world operation of a faith-based travel brand.
The internship is intended to complement the student's academic education rather than replace the work of a paid employee.
The student will work under supervision and will receive instruction, feedback, evaluation, and opportunities to apply classroom concepts to carefully selected educational projects.
The student will study how a travel organization can communicate with different Christian audiences while maintaining appropriate professionalism, accuracy, sensitivity, and respect for differing Christian traditions and denominations.
ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP
This internship provides supervised educational experience in marketing, social media, communications, tourism, advertising, and faith-based travel promotion.
The intern may participate in:
- Marketing strategy and campaign development
- Social-media marketing and content creation
- Church and ministry outreach
- Travel and audience research
- Website and email marketing
- Digital advertising
- Marketing budgets
- Analytics and campaign evaluation
- Graphic, video, and written content
- Christian destination and travel marketing
The student will have opportunities to develop marketing ideas, test selected strategies, analyze results, and create a final marketing project.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The student may develop skills in:
- Creating a marketing plan for a faith-based travel product or audience.
- Identifying and understanding Christian travel audiences.
- Comparing social-media platforms and determining appropriate uses for each.
- Creating and evaluating digital marketing campaigns.
- Developing written, graphic, video, and promotional content.
- Researching churches, ministries, destinations, and travel trends.
- Developing church and ministry outreach strategies.
- Understanding marketing budgets and return on investment.
- Using analytics to evaluate campaign performance.
- Presenting marketing recommendations and results professionally.
Learning Experiences
- CHURCH AND MINISTRY OUTREACH -The student will study how travel companies can communicate professionally with churches and ministries.
- FAITH-BASED TRAVEL MARKETING-The student will learn how marketing principles apply specifically to Christian travel.
- SOCIAL MEDIA & DIGITAL MARKETING- The student will research and compare 15 or more social-media and digital marketing platforms to determine which are most appropriat