PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Project Management

Project Management

Executive Summary3

Introduction3

Gold Coast City3

Bond University7

Living in Australia9

Food and Drinks Cost in Gold Coast12

Clothing and Accessories Cost in Australia13

Clothes14

VISA and Air Ticket15

Total Monthly Expense15

Small Business Marketing Skills Set (Bond University)15

Total Cost16

Student's Choice16

Vocational Expectation Factors17

Risks19

Activities On Foreign Soil19

Housing20

Bus Services20

Conclusion21

Executive Summary

As a project manager, my purpose is to develop high quality scoping study and design a strategy for inviting 20 students from Venezuela, from 10 different cities, for a 4 weeks stay in Gold Coast, Australia (arriving the 01/08/10 and returning the 29/08/10). With a group of skilful professionals, our company is famous for its suitable design for different organizations.

The research has been gathered from newspapers, industry journals, interviews, magazines and Internet Web sites. This information resource provides the basis of a reliable and valid background.

Introduction

Gold Coast City

The Gold Coast is a city in the Australian state of Queensland. It is the second most populous city in the state and the sixth most populous city in the country. It is also the most populous non-capital city in the country. Gold Coast City is known for its sunny subtropical climate, surfing beaches, waterways and canal systems, a skyline dominated by high-rise apartment buildings, a rainforest hinterland in the west of the city, nightlife and its tourist attractions.

The Gold Coast has a subtropical climate with warm, mild winters and hot, bright summers. Set out hereunder is a summary of the climatic data for the city: The city consists of 57 kilometres of coastline with some of the most famous beaches in Australia including, South Stradbroke Island, The Spit, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Mermaid Beach, Nobby Beach, Miami, Burleigh Beach, Burleigh Heads, Tallebudgera Beach, Palm Beach, Curruminbin Beach, Tugun, Bilinga, Kirra, Coolangatta, Greenmount, Rainbow Bay, Snapper Rocks and Froggies Beach. Duranbah beach is one of the world's best known surfing beaches and is often thought of as being on the Gold Coast, but is actually just across the New South Wales state border in Tweed Shire.

There are also beaches along many of the Gold Coast's 860km of navigable tidal waterways. Popular inland beaches include Southport, Budds Beach, Marine Stadium, Currumbin Alley, Tallebudgera Estuary, Jacobs Well, Jabiru Island, Paradise Point, Harley Park Labrador and Evandale Lake.

While the beaches are beautiful and enticing, there are also inherent dangers, and the Gold Coast has Australia's largest professional surf lifesaving service to protect people on the beaches and to promote surf safety throughout the community.

The Gold Coast's education infrastructure includes:

Universities - Two major university campuses (Bond University at Robina and Griffith University, incorporating the Griffith Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and Oral Health at the Gold Coast Hospital and the main campus at Southport) and the smaller campus of Central Queensland University at Southport

TAFE - four campuses at Southport, Ridgeway (Ashmore), Benowa and Coolangatta

Schools - Over 100 primary and secondary schools, both public and private and of a variety of denominations, including the selective state high school Queensland Academy for Health Sciences and single-sex private schools The Southport School and St Hilda's ...