Yacht Week is a great place for students to party and meet potential employers.
Since it began in 2007, the event has grown and now hosts hundreds of people.
Not including airfare, food, or drinks, the trip can cost up to $1,000 for a yacht experience.
Yacht Week is emerging as the go-to event of the year due to its luxurious networking experience for elite business school students.
The Wall Street Journal reported that students from the country's top business schools go to Croatia each summer to party and meet potential employers.
According to its website, Yacht Week was created in 2006 by the Swedish company Day 8AB. It hosts more than 500 students from top US programs every summer for a week-long trip.
Students can choose to sail around the coast of Greece, Turkey, or French Polynesia on more expensive routes. Airfare, food, and drinks are not included in the cost of the original Croatian route.
The number of boats has grown from 95 in 2007 to over 1,000 in 2022.
The girlfriends I went with on the trip, maybe we'll become co- founders one day. We'll be successful no matter what.
Yacht Week typically involves heavy partying with the boats docking in a circle to create an area where attendees can sip cocktails and lounge on floaties while cavorting with students on other boats According to WSJ, the average age of a Yacht Week-goer is between 21 and 40.
Yacht Week was described as "raucous" and its attendees were mostly affluent in a 2015 review by the magazine.
Stuart McGurk wrote that nearly everyone is beautiful. They have been on shows. Two staff photographers take pictures of everything you, the hard-partying customer, get up to at all times.
It's clear that the attendees are having a good time and that they believe in the possibility of making meaningful connections, even though it's not certain whether the week-long party will translate to jobs for these students.
Jaron Wright told the WSJ that someone from Yacht Week is going to be an important part of his life in the future. I have a hunch that will happen.
Business Insider has an article on it.
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