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Luxurious Incentive Travel Trips: 4 Ways to Make Trips More Luxurious

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Now more than ever before, luxury is a subjective term. For example, almost everyone sees an off the rack Armani suit as a luxury item, but the luxuriousness of the suit might not meet the standards of a bespoke suit from Kiton, which could cost thousands of dollars more.

The same principle applies to luxurious incentive travel trips that companies use to motivate business performance. There are lots of “luxury” options, but not all of them offer the same level of luxuriousness. If you want offer your employees a trip that truly typifies luxury, including the following elements in the trip is an excellent way to kick off the trip planning process.

  1. First Class Travel

Luxurious incentive travel trips begin the moment you board the plane, train, or boat to embark on your journey. When creating a trip that focuses on luxury, first class is the only way to travel. Regardless of how you travel, first class accommodations typically offer the most room, the most comfortable seating, and the highest level of access to the transportation provider’s value-added services, such as gourmet meals, diverse IT capabilities, and digital entertainment.

  1. Five Star Hotel Accommodations

After you set the standard for luxurious incentive travel trips by scheduling first class travel arrangements, it’s important to extend the luxuriousness to the hotel where you stay. Options for five star hotels involve some familiar names, such as Ritz Carlton and Four Seasons, but there may also be independent luxury at the destination that offer the same level of service. An incentive travel trip planner will apprise you of the five star hotel options at the destination, and help you decide which of them most offers the type of luxury you’re looking for in the trip.

  1. Activities Involving Luxury Products

Examples of activities that involve luxury products include visits to famous wineries, eating at the best restaurants, and taking excursions to famous foot shopping districts, such as Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and Savile Row in London. If you’re dedicated to offering the most luxurious trip, activities at the destination should ideally feature access to luxury products that your hard working employees typically don’t sample of purchase just every day.

  1. On-Site Travel Staff

Another key aspect of a luxurious trip is having on-site travel staff with you for the duration of your journey. From resolving unforeseen glitches in the travel itinerary, to scheduling additional activities at the destination, to assisting travelers with personal wants and needs, on-site travel staff essentially function as assistants that help you enjoy the leisure that typifies luxury travel.

Who We Are

Incentive Travel Solutions is full-service planner of luxurious incentive travel trips, with over 15 years of experience in the business. When a client wants a truly luxurious excursion, we step to the plate and present a fine range of options that helps the client plan a trip that’s both luxurious and unique.

To put our expertise in incentive travel to work for your company, call us today at (704) 540-1482, or fill out our contact form. We look forward to helping you create a luxury travel trip that creates memories that last a lifetime, helps bring employees closer together as a team, and motivates them to achieve a high level of success to qualify for future trips.

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Full Service Incentive Travel: What Constitutes Full Service?

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Companies use incentive travel trips to motivate employees to reach business goals, but all employees need to focus on is qualifying for the trips. As their employer, planning the details of the trips up to you. If you don’t specialize in arranging incentive travel trips — which is the case for most companies that participate in incentive travel — implementing full service incentive travel will likely require the help of an experienced incentive trip travel planner. When you use us as your trip planner, your trip is arranged to be “full service” in the following six ways.

  1. Budgetary Considerations

An incentive travel trip is no fun at all if it doesn’t synchronize with your company’s travel budget. This is why the first step of a full service incentive travel trip is selecting a destination and activities there that accommodate your budget. With our assistance, you can plan a fantastic trip that doesn’t compromise your budget concerning other business travel needs.

  1. Destination Selection

When companies conjure up their version of the best travel destinations, it often includes heavily touristed places such as mainland Hawaii, European cities such as London and Paris, and U.S. destinations such as New York and L.A. Travels to these locations can make great trips indeed, but there are also a variety of other special destinations a professional trip planner can send your way. The goal is to choose a destination that thrills you and your hard workers.

  1. Travel Arrangements

For most vacationers, making great travel arrangements is a necessary evil of embarking on a great vacation. The same applies to companies that provide incentive travel trips. We eliminate the hassle of planning complex travel arrangements by performing airline travel negotiation, securing hotel contracts, providing flawless web registration, and handling other essentials.

  1. Planning Special Events

There’s a lot less enjoyment in arriving at a splendid destination if you have nothing to do after you arrive. This is why we specialize in arranging travel activities that provide memories that will last a lifetime. The activities you enjoy obviously depends on where you travel. Given our experience with world travel destinations, we’re the perfect choice for planning special events.

  1. On-Site Travel Staff

Full service incentive travel is capped off by having a dedicated, on-site travel staff attend your group to its destination, and oversee activities after you arrive. The staff stays in the background and only comes into play to resolve special needs and take care of incongruencies between the event itinerary and events. Having a dedicated travel staff helps you, as the trip provider, relax, knowing that everything will be overseen and attended to by the well-trained travel staff.

Need Full Service Incentive Travel?

When they’re implemented with the assistance of an experienced travel trip planner, full service incentive travel trips provide the most hassle-free, enjoyable travel experience. If this is the type of travel experience you want for you and your employees, Incentive Travel Solutions is here to make the difference.

To get started on planning your full service incentive travel excursion, please contact us today by calling (704) 540-1482, or fill out the contact form on our company website.

 

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How Do Incentive Travel Consultants and Vacation Planners Differ?

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Each year, millions of people pour into the offices of vacation travel planners with the hope of planning a scenic, relaxing trip to a place that lets them leave their cares behind for awhile. Would these planners also serve as a good option for creating a group incentive travel trip to reward your company’s top performers?

In most cases, the answer is no. Both work in the travel industry and can help you plan amazing journeys, but vacation travel consultants and incentive travel consultants are birds of different colors. Below are four things that incentive travel planners offer that so many vacation planners don’t.

  1. Custom Designed Trips

When you use an incentive travel consultant, you typically don’t choose a pre-planned travel package. Instead, you work with the consultant to plan a trip that’s totally unique. As for what constitutes “unique”, the sky is the limit. The consultant’s goal is to facilitate an original travel experience that perfectly suits everyone’s tastes and surpasses expectations — two things you often don’t receive when planning a group trip through a vacation consultant.

  1. Trips That Incentivize Performance

Because incentive travel trips incentivize top performance in the workplace, they should consist of more than a nice destination and travel arrangements that glue the trip together. Rather, they should deliver what we call the “wow factor” — a sensation travelers experience when they reach an epic destination and enjoy fabulous activities while there. Leaving the cares of the workplace behind is a part of the trip, but motivating future business performance is a part of it, too.

  1. Hassle-Free Trip Planning

Unlike the average vacation planner, incentive travel consultants will literally plan your group trip from start to finish, scheduling all of the travel arrangements and handling all of the communications that ensure arrangements go as planned. All you do is choose a destination and activities with the help of a consultant, provide payment for the trip, and then prepare to travel to an amazing destination and enjoy yourself — it’s that simple.

  1. Dedicated Travel Staff

When travel arrangements don’t go as planned with a traditional vacation, it’s often up to you to make the situation right. When you use incentive travel consultants that offer a full line of elite travel services, you have the option of traveling with dedicated travel staff, who move swiftly to address any problems that arise, if indeed they do. Moreover, using travel staff helps you enjoy the trip without worrying about any of the arrangements that support it.

Ready to Plan an Incentive Travel Trip?

If so, contacting our incentive travel consultants is your next move. Unlike most vacation planners, we do more than help you choose a great destination and a travel package to get you there. In addition to helping you select intriguing destinations that have an overwhelming “wow factor”, we can perform airline contract negotiation, execute hotel contracts, supply on-site travel staff, provide flawless web registration, and more.

To get started on planning a trip that rewards your hard workers and motivates them to qualify for the next trip, contact us today at (704) 540-1482, or use the contact form on our website. We look forward to helping you plan a journey that’s like no other and creates lifelong memories.

 

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Incentive Travel Organizers: Tips for Creating a Successful Travel Program

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An incentive travel program that rewards top business performers with exciting travels begins with developing standards that let employees qualify for the excursions and assists them in doing so. Companies put their own spin on what workers must do to earn incentivized travel, but there are basic building blocks of the reward structure that every company should implement.

Four Building Blocks for Success

According to Incentive Research Foundation (ISR), there are four items that create a successful incentive travel program in terms of using the program as a motivational tool for stellar business performance. In the following sections, we take a brief look at each one, and explain the importance. For additional information, feel free to contact our incentive travel organizers.

  1. Designing a Program That Creates Excitement

As experienced incentive travel organizers know, a travel program needs to generate excitement about the upcoming trip to motivate employees to qualify for it. You need both an intriguing destination and exciting activities to do when you get there, but that isn’t all. Through research, ISR has found that including “leisure time” for travelers in the trip also adds to the excitement that precipitates taking the journey.

  1. Selection Criteria Tied to Business Objectives

Because the main goals of incentive travel trips are to reward exceptional performance and motivate it in the future through offering additional trips, the selection criteria for trips should be tied to business objectives. Objectives differ for each company, but one thing is certain: Incentivized travel is meant to reward a specific level of success, not simply to commend good performance, as some other types of awards do.

  1. Clear Communication About Employee Progress

Most companies plan incentive travel trips based on the performance of employees throughout a calendar business year. Consequently, it’s a good idea to give employees feedback about their progress toward qualifying for the trip on at least a quarterly basis. It’s basically the same kind of information presented in company meetings that review business progress. The only difference is that the information specifically applies to qualifying for the trip.

  1. Detailed Records That Quantify Productivity

According to ISR, a company that uses incentive travel should keep “detailed records that prove the productivity of the earners and their contributions to the company’s financial performance.” Not only does the information tell employees exactly why they qualify for the trip; it also provides a quantifiable record of success that eliminates notions of favoritism or leniency when selecting trip participants, which helps a company be a good steward to its employees.

Ready to Put Your Travel Program in Motion?

If so, our incentive travel organizers are here to assist. We start by helping you choose a fantastic destination and exciting activities that wow your travelers. Then, we make taking the excursion hassle-free by providing services such as airline contract negotiation, securing hotel contracts, flawless web registration, and providing on-site travel staff to address unexpected needs.

To put your company’s travel program in motion, call us today at (704) 540-1482, or use the contact form on our website, to set up a free consultation. We look forward to helping you plan a trip that rewards top performance and encourages it in the future through upcoming trips.

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Floating Over Napa Valley is an Ideal Way to Spend a Work Day

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incentive-tripHot air balloons are antiquated forms of air travel that are still popular in the modern age of sleek, high-powered jets that can zoom you from coast to coast in a matter of hours. The reason why is obvious: Nothing is quite like traveling high above the earth in a luxury hot air balloon.

Sure, you can get a nice view of the earth below by gazing out a jet window, but you don’t experience the panorama of scenery that stretches for miles in all directions like you do when you ascend thousands of feet in the air in a hot air balloon that gracefully drifts to its destination.

This is one reason why scheduling a hot air balloon trip is a great idea for companies that wish to reward their hard working employees with an unforgettable experience that helps them bond as co-workers, makes them feel important to their employer, and helps motivate them to perform at the highest level in anticipation of the next, awe-inspiring incentivized travel opportunity.

If you would like to provide a hot air balloon trip for your employees that strive to improve your company’s bottom line, Incentive Travel Solutions courteously recommends taking them on a hot air balloon trip over one of the most scenic wine regions in the world: California’s Napa Valley. As you contemplate the trip, consider the following, unique trip options that we can arrange for you to make the journey as unforgettable in reality as it sounds in this blog.

Let Professionals Guide the Air Balloons
Air travel always involves the consideration of passenger safety. At Incentive Travel Solutions, we will coordinate for your company’s hot air balloon trip to be guided by only the most experienced air balloon pilots. Let the pilots take control of the reigns as you and your employees enjoy the breathtaking scenery of beautiful vineyards that expand in every direction. If you love wine vineyards, see them in a way that you have never seen them before!

Make a Famous Winery Your Destination
What would a trip over Napa wine vineyard topography be without making a famous winery your air balloon destination? Napa wine vineyard territory has an ample supply of fields that separate one vineyard from another. With our assistance, you can make a famous winery the destination of your hot air balloon trip. After the exciting, scenic experience of hovering above lovely vineyards, descend near a famous winery and taste what the fields of grapes have to offer.

Make it a One-Day Trip or a Multi-Day Journey
We can arrange incentivized travel arrangements that last for as little as one day and as long as several weeks. If your valued employees are in line for a major reward, why not treat them to several hot air balloon trips that are a part of a singular travel plan? We can arrange impeccable hotel and resort accommodations throughout the Napa Valley area that turn you and your employees into intrepid travelers of one of California’s most scenic, famous wine regions.

Schedule Other Forms of Travel for Your Journey
Scheduling a hot air balloon trip over the Napa Valley region needn’t limit you to air travel. There are plenty of memorable destinations throughout the area, from five-star restaurants to upscale shopping boutiques, that you can easily visit by traveling on wheels. If this sounds like something that you would like to offer your valued employees, we can provide everything from luxury rental cars to professional limousine service to take you to your destinations in style.

Want to Offer Your Employees a Memorable Journey?
If so, put scheduling a hot air balloon trip over Napa Valley on your list of considerations. Everyone enjoys wine, so to speak, but few people enjoy the opportunity of gazing at length on the scenic topography of California’s Napa Valley wine region. If you are rewarding your employees for their hard work, this is the type of incentivized travel solution you want to offer.

With the assistance of Incentive Travel Solutions, the only thing you have to decide is who attends the trip and and what the journey should entail. We handle all the details, from ensuring that you travel in the newest, safest air balloons to making sure that you receive the five-star treatment you expect at each destination. For assistance planning your next incentivized travel opportunity, call us today at (704) 540-1482, or fill out the contact form on our website.

We look forward to helping you create a trip that your talented employees will always remember!