The Isle of Man Experience
Participants arrive in the Isle of Man
on a Sunday evening and move into a hotel on the seafront in
Douglas, the capital, less than a mile away from the International
Business School (IBS). For the next week they will be picked up by
bus each morning for classes to start at 9:00 AM. The working days
are intense, but for the first three evenings, there is no formal
programme scheduled, giving participants time to get over jetlag
and absorb what has been taught during the day.
On Thursday evening,
participants will meet prominent people in the Isle of Man who are
active in government and the financial sector at a reception in
their honour. On the Friday evening the president of Tynwald, the
Manx parliament will take them on a tour of the legislature, which
will be followed by a panel discussion of lessons learned from the
Isle of Man's economic journey over the past 50 years. Afterwards
there will be an informal dinner on the top floor of the
legislative buildings with sweeping views over Douglas Bay.
Saturday is another intense working day, until early afternoon
when there will be a break of several hours before they will travel
by bus to King William's College in the south of the island for a
reception with Manx music and dancers.
Sunday morning is completely free for church and rest. After
lunch the visitors will take the Victorian steam train from 
Douglas to Casteltown the old capital and then
travel around the Island by bus. In addition to experiencing the
Island's dramatic scenery, they will see the castles at Castletown
and Peel and Tynwald Mound at St John's in the centre of the Island
where, on Manx National Day, 5 July each year the laws are read out
in a ceremony dating back more than a thousand years.
On Monday morning they say goodbye to the Isle of Man and take a
one-hour charter flight to Oxford airport for the seond half of the
programme.
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