The Brunswick-Golden Isles Convention & Visitors Bureau recently hosted two visiting college students from Hong Kong. The students, Winnie Yin, 20, and Macy Au, 21, are completing a summer internship at the Georgia Dept. of Economic Development in Atlanta. They are part of a group of 20 Chinese students who worked in Atlanta this summer.Winnie and Macy worked at the Tourism division, where they helped to develop new travel marketing materials for the Chinese market. Their tasks included translating the Brunswick-Golden Isles area brochure and other documents into Chinese.
“We are very excited to have their help in translating the brochure,” said Bill Tipton, executive director of the Brunswick-Golden Isles CVB. “Now we are able to offer area information in nine languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. We also are working with them to have our area video translated, which will expand that offering to nine languages as well.”
During their visit, Winnie and Macy enjoyed much of the best our area has to offer. Among their favorite activities were riding the Lady Jane shrimp boat, visiting the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, climbing to the top of the St. Simons Lighthouse and going to the beach on St. Simons Island. They were “crazy for seafood,” and especially enjoyed our fresh shrimp.
“People in China know Atlanta, but they are not familiar with the Golden Isles,” Winnie said. “It is a very beautiful area and we enjoyed visiting.”
Caption: Bill Tipton, executive director of the Brunswick-Golden Isles CVB, greeted visiting Chinese interns Winnie Yin, center, and Macy Au. The students, who attend school in Hong Kong, have been working with the Georgia Dept. of Economic Development tourism division in Atlanta.
