At 9:00 am we had as a guest speaker Mr. Gordon Viberg, he told us about his experience in the tourism sector as CEO of the Intercontinental Hotel in Mexico for over 20 years; his approach to this lecture was to show how difficult was to change a pre-established business model in an closed environment as it was Mexico in the 80’s and how he had to transformed it to fit not only the changing of the mindset but also how to become competitive in the 90’s and in the new millennium.
The last discussion was given to us by Mr. Edmundo Vallejo (Prof. at IPADE and Ex CEO of GE Finance LA), we rounded all the ideas that we had been hearing about throughout the week and left us with several questions so that we can ponder about this industry and what it means as a whole for the global economy.
The last hours of this week we has the presentations that all the groups did, they where make in two different class rooms, all the works where done with professionalism and showing the different perspectives of the teammates and their unique approach to the requirements.
WOOOOOOHHHHH its lunch time and the people at IPADE has given us a really good surprise, we have a complete Mexican food buffet, and of course we had to be dressed for the occasion that’s why they gave us a “reboso” for the ladies and a “zarape” for the guys, and our costume hats, the tables where filled with Mexican candies, we also had a group of marimba playing music, that gave us a really nice touch to the end of this international week.
Some of the international students went after wards to the pyramids of Teotihuacán, that way they could see the grandeur of the Mesoamerican culture.
Last but not least we want to say good bye to a group of new friends and we hope to meet you again later. As it is usual we had a little good bye party starting at 8:00 pm and ending more or less at 7:00 am, here is just a taste of what happened there.
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