🇮🇪 Internship in Ireland 🎤 Conference & Event Management at a Destination Management Company 🌍 — €600/month

Abbey Conferences, part of the Abbey Group, is offering a paid internship in its Conferences Department in Dublin — a chance to gain hands-on experience creating world-class conferences and events.

About the Abbey Group

The Abbey Group is an established and fast-growing Destination Management Company dedicated to selling the destinations of Ireland and the UK to the international travel trade on a B2B basis. With offices in Dublin and Edinburgh and a remote team across Ireland, the UK and a number of European countries, the group consists of Abbey the Destination Experts, Abbey Conferences, Abbey Events and Moloney & Kelly. It runs five divisions: Group Travel, Individual & Online Travel, Incentive & Luxury Leisure Travel, Conferences and Events. Since 1988, Abbey Conferences has been a trusted partner for exceptional event management, with a multi-award-winning team that combines passion, experience and meticulous planning to create unforgettable conferences.

Tasks for the Conferences Department

📑 Assisting the Sales Manager with conferences/events bid production

🗓️ Assisting Project Managers in coordinating all assigned virtual, hybrid and live conferences/events

🏨 Accommodation and venue management

🎧 AV and catering coordination

🚌 Transport and travel management

🎭 Social programme creation and coordination for confirmed conferences

🖥️ Online registration and abstract submission

📰 Creating ezines, flyers and programmes, and helping update conference websites and databases

✉️ Delegate services — correspondence with delegates, speakers, sponsors and suppliers, issuing invoices, visa letters and more

📍 Onsite management — being the representative on site during the operation of the conference or event

💶 Financial and credit control over assigned conferences (sending payment chasers and allocating payments in the conference system)

🏢 Covering front office reception as assigned

🌱 Assisting the Abbey Group with its environmental and responsible tourism initiatives

Flexibility is required, as the role may also extend to support any of the company's other departments when needed.

Skills & Requirements

🗣️ Fluency in English

⌨️ Good basic keyboard skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office

🧭 Good communication and organisational skills

🎓 Students must be affiliated with a college/educational institution/Erasmus/Leonardo da Vinci etc., or the internship must be part of their studies

What You'll Gain

🌍 A real look at the business and exposure to the tourism industry in Europe

📈 An understanding of their key markets and clients, and how they develop, operate and market the business

🏛️ Exposure to the tourist attractions, products and trends they offer clients

🤝 Communication and teamwork skills

🚀 Organisational and leadership skills, the ability to work on your own initiative, learning their tour operating system and developing your IT skills

🗣️ Improved English, both written and oral