Disappearing "island experiencer"

Because she loves diving and the ocean, Dora chose to do island tourism development in a company.

Once, Dora had the happiest job in the world-an island development experiencer.

It is purely coincidental to become an island development experiencer.

At that time, Dora University had not graduated yet, and was submitting resumes to find internship opportunities. A company specializing in deep island tourism found that Dora loved diving and contacted her.

Out of her love for diving and the ocean, Dora didn't look for an internship like other students to make her resume look better, but chose to do island tourism development in this company.

In less than a year, Dora completed the excavation of about 100 islands online and offline, covering 8 inaccessible islands.

Over the years, Dora has already left her job and changed her job, but she will always remember that in the shallows of Angel Island in the Indonesian flores Islands, she came across free-spirited sharks, colorful corals underwater, and rare devil fish and poisonous lizards; I will never forget those moments when I was caught in a storm and kept getting wet, and the thrilling moments when I couldn't return to my original point because of the heavy wind and waves when I was snorkeling, and when I was shooting at sea, people were directly washed away by the waves.

Island development experiencers are not just public trips.

Dora was not born to like diving and the sea. Like many people, she was once full of fear of the sea.

20 15, Mombasa, Kenya, she almost died in the sea because of the accidental air leakage of the lifebuoy. It was not until a year later that Dora finally overcame her inner fear and obtained a diving certificate in Malaysia.

Diving gave her a new perspective on the world. "In the sea, all I hear is my breathing.

Everything in front of us is completely different from what we saw on land. This is a fresh world. "Dora said.

Dora has become an island development experiencer with the aim of "diving at public expense".

But she soon found that the job was not as easy and beautiful as she imagined.

Island development experiencers need to look for unpopular islands that are ignored by the domestic tourism market on a global scale.

They should collect information on the internet, learn about the unpopular and niche islands through search engines, maps, travel information, travel bloggers and other channels, and then communicate with the island owners to try to reach a preliminary cooperation intention.

After that, the island development experiencer needs to make a field trip to these islands in a short time.

During this period, she also needs to make further contact with the island owner, take photos, complete the experience report and strategy, and record many details of the landing process, including traffic connection, accommodation environment, entertainment projects, local food and so on.

"The island development experiencer must have strong emotional ability and must be a detail control." Dora said.

Whether the height of the ship is suitable for the elderly and children to board the ship, whether the food is too international, whether it meets the appetite of the orientals, what color flowers to bloom in a particular season, and what color clothes to wear for taking pictures are all details that an island development experiencer needs to pay attention to and record.

Sometimes, there is competition between islands in the same sea area, so there is no contact between ships. This requires the island development experiencer to make more comprehensive trip planning and preparation in advance, and arrange the outside boatmen to connect.

For most island travelers, diving is essential.

So diving became Dora's plus item.

After she joined the team, she began to have underwater promotional videos.

Take a close-up photo with the poisonous lizard and watch the little sharks playing in the shallows.

Despite the hard work, Dora, who loves the sea deeply, still likes this job very much.

In just one year, she has gained too many unique life experiences that ordinary people can't understand.

Komodo monitor lizard is a poisonous lizard endemic to Komodo Islands in Indonesia. As long as you are bitten, you will be amputated or killed.

When visiting the Komodo Islands, one of the trips was to take a photo with the Komodo monitor lizard. Despite her fears, Dora got up the courage to experience the project.

Of course, diving near these inaccessible islands also gives her a chance to see many marine life that divers rarely see, such as colorful corals and huge devil fish.

According to Dora, she once saw devil fish while diving in Angel Island. This is no ordinary fish. In Indonesia, they only appear near Angel Island and Bali.

One day, Dora was walking on the beach of Angel Island in flores, Indonesia, and saw a group of small sharks the size of calves playing freely in the shallows.

"This is a spectacle that can only be seen on the beach with very good ecological protection." Dora sighed. "Sharks can play on such a shallow beach, which shows that they are not afraid of people."

In addition to the work of island development and experience, Dora will also serve as an accompanying translator for the tourism team.

In her memory, most of the customers who experienced the island tour were couples or couples who loved diving.

Dora remembers that the island tourism company where she used to work would also organize employees to build a group on the island.

A group of them would explore and race in kayaks and catch sea urchins in the sea, which was a very special experience for Dora, who was only in her early twenties.

Photo: Although Dora's monthly salary is only 3,000 yuan, how much money she can earn is no longer so important when her career and travel can perfectly coincide.

"In order to dispel the concerns of the island owner, I took off my skin."

As a marine environmentalist, Dora has been practicing her three marine commitments: not to apply sunscreen in the sea unless the sunscreen has a coral protection sign; Don't deliberately touch any marine life; Try to pick up marine garbage.

Dora's island tourism company has also equipped every island development experiencer with a garbage net bag, and the island development experiencer will improve the marine environment through actions in various places.

On a business trip, Dora forgot to bring coral reef safety sunscreen (a special sunscreen that can protect corals and not destroy the ocean), but she would rather get sunburned than wear any other sunscreen, which eventually led to severe sunburn on her back and even inability to sleep.

Many of the island owners contacted by Dora are diving enthusiasts from Europe.

They dive a lot in the sea, and they don't realize the freedom of wealth until they are 60 or 70 years old. They want to realize their dream of owning a small sea area in the last stage of their lives, so they come to Asia to invest in islands.

"Many small islands are privately owned, and they have placed their personal feelings on the island owners.

The island owners built these islands according to their own dream settings. "

Dora said, "Therefore, these people don't care much about whether the island can receive many tourists and whether the island tourism can be profitable.

Whether tourists have high literacy and environmental protection concept is what they value. "

For example, in the Indonesian island of Jean Makoun, the concept of organic environmental protection has been strictly implemented from the production of toilet paper to the construction of houses.

According to Dora, the toilet paper in Jean Makoun Island is made of recyclable paper produced by people on the island, so the texture is rough.

The staff try not to use plastic products, and even only use hot water and lemon to wash dishes.

The buildings on the island are all simple wooden structures, and the overall vision is environmentally friendly and natural, and no air conditioning will be installed.

The food supply on the island is basically self-sufficient. In addition to quantitative fishing, islanders also raise chickens and grow some vegetables and fruits for tourists to eat.

Ernest, who is over 60 years old, comes from Switzerland and is the owner of Angel Island in Indonesian flores Islands.

Dora contacted Ernest through his private website.

At first, Ernest hesitated to cooperate because of concerns about the shark fin trading market in China and the marine ecological protection awareness of tourists from China.

Dora told Ernest that most people in China realized that shark fin did not contain high-value nutrition, and its taste had been replaced by vermicelli.

In the end, Dora's repeated persuasion and practice of environmental protection impressed Ernest, and successfully talked with him about this cooperation on behalf of the company.

Disappearing companies and disappearing jobs

Throughout the ages, no one can resist the temptation to travel.

When asked where Socrates came from, Socrates replied that he came from the world, not Athens.

Alain de Botton, an English writer, once tried to explain the significance of travel to modern urbanites in his book The Art of Travel: "Visiting nature frequently is a necessary therapy to alleviate the evils in urban life.

Nature will guide us to find something beautiful and kind that exists together from life and from each other. Nature is the image of a beautiful idea and has the function of correcting distorted and deformed urban life. "

Although Dora's monthly salary is only 3000 yuan, when her career and travel can perfectly coincide, how much money she can earn is no longer so important.

According to Dora's recollection, when she was internship in this island tourism company, there were only three island development experiencers, most of whom, like herself, were senior students or newly graduated college students who came here for internship.

Even though the salary is meager, Dora's original island tourism company has attracted many highly educated talents.

They come from key universities. Because they love traveling, they gave up the opportunity to go to a big factory and came here to work. Their supervisor used to be a flight attendant, and the monthly salary here is only 5000 yuan.

According to public reports, Dora Island Tourism Company was founded on 20 13, and it was a start-up company, which had received financing of 3 million yuan.

Eye survey shows that this company is still operating, but if you log in to official website of this island tourism company, you will find that it has not been updated for a long time, and the official Weibo of the company only updated to 2065438+June 2009.

According to Dora, the company also tried to change from operating high-end island tours to wholesale and private island sales of new island travel agencies, but all ended in failure.

Together with this company, there is also the occupation of island development experiencer.

Searching for "island experiencer" in the search engine, the relevant reports and recruitment information stay at around 20 18.

In this era of highly developed media and information, "island experiencers" have lost their meaning of existence, and the gaps that appear after their disappearance are being replaced by video travel bloggers.

Today, Dora has already left this industry and started a jewelry business.

After living as an island development experiencer for some time, her former colleagues also returned to those big companies.

But when it comes to the experience of this island development experiencer, Dora is still full of nostalgia: "It is both exciting and beautiful."