Incentive travel is an unfamiliar term to many, but specially planned incentive travel trips to amazing destinations can play an essential role in making top business performers feel adequately compensated, and motivating them to perform at a high level to qualify for the next incentive travel trip. Employees benefit from the trips for the relaxation and pleasure they offer. Employers benefit from the high level of productivity that justifies offering the exciting journeys.
Benefits for Employees and Companies
Over the past five years, studies have revealed statistics from various organizations that point to the need for incentive-based travel that provides a much needed vacation away from the workplace, but incentive travel trips have important benefits for the companies that offer them, too. Below, we look at three benefits for employers and three benefits for their employees.
- For Employers: An Incentive Travel Planner Handles Arrangements
When we say we handle arrangements, we mean that we literally plan and oversee all aspects of the trip, from securing airline contracts, to negotiating hotel accommodations, to ensuring that enjoyable activities occur as planned, and much more. The same detail to attention also applies to the return trip.
- For Employees: Employees Develop Camaraderie With Coworkers
Your employees may already enjoy a good sense of camaraderie; otherwise, they wouldn’t work together well enough to qualify for incentive travel. But incentive travel trips can bring them closer together, as they share rich, cultural experiences that promote friendship and not just a sense of professional respect.
- For Employers: Dedicated Travel Staff Attend the Entire Journey
When you and your top performers embark on the amazing journey, you travel with a team of sidekicks who are our very own travel staff. These staff members attend to your wants and needs during the trip and resolve any unforeseen discrepancies in the travel itinerary. On a a standard vacation, you would do this on your own. On an incentive travel trip, they are handled on your behalf.
- For Employees: The Trip is Anything but a Common Vacation
Because incentive travel is offered to top performers, many of whom are well-compensated enough to afford their own phonomenal vacations, the key to up the ante and provide a journey that has two key characteristics: a world class destination that involves activities that would impress an international diplomat on his or her initial trip to the appointment’s destination.
- For Employers: Employees Return With a Renewed Sense of Vigor
It can be a bit of a shock going from leisurely back to the daily grind, but studies have shown that incentive travel doesn’t turn employees into beach bums who don’t want to lose their tan. Rather, it helps them return to work with a renewed sense of vitality that has a positive impact on coworker relations and morale. Your next travel trip promises the same results.
- For Employees: The Trip is a Novel Reward Compared to Others Trips
Performance bonuses, big raises, stock options, promotions: These are common ways that companies reward top performers. While “money talks”, as the famous saying goes, incentive travel can speak even louder when it comes to rewarding workers who seemingly “have it all” in the financial department. There’s a reason we say our trips “create memories that last a lifetime.”
Ready to Add Incentive Travel to the Employee Reward Program?
If so, partnering with Incentive Travel Solutions to develop an incentive travel trip puts your interests in the hands of a company that has extensive experience creating trips whose destinations, activities, and sense of luxury are highly distinctive. Over the years, we’ve found that the trips we create with the help of our clients provide a tangible reward for business success and serve as great motivator for employees whose compensation is tied to performance.
To get started on creating an incentive-based travel plan to reward employees whose success is imperative for the success of your company, call us today at (704) 540-1482, or use our contact form. We look forward to hearing about your wants and needs that will define your travels.
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Why Do People Love to Travel?
/in Incentive Travel ArticlesPeople love to travel, and they also hate it. If you send them on a two-week vacation to paradisal Fiji, they’re likely to have one of the best warm weather experiences of their life, and long to revisit the white sand as soon as they can. However, if you send them on a business trip to the same location, but with little to no time for leisure activities, the meaningfulness of visiting the delightful geography is largely lost.
Vacations and Incentive Travel
When we say people love to travel, we generally mean they are incredibly fond of leaving their locale — and their cares there — behind for all while. Taking traditional vacations is how most people satisfy their love for leisure travel, but embarking on incentive travel trips can be just as appealing, if not more so.
After all, incentive travel trips are on the employer’s dime, and they typically involve amazing, novel activities that most people wouldn’t plan on their own. If your company is considering using incentive travel as reward for its top performers, you have at least three reasons to do so, which are three of the biggest reasons why people love to travel.
We often talk about escapism from a negative perspective, but the fact is: Taking an occasional break from our normal routine is psychologically healthy, as it allows us to press our proverbial mental rest button. People routinely “escape” in ways that aren’t healthy, but a well-planned incentive travel trip is a salubrious way to say goodbye to the daily grind for a while.
Here, we’re talking about education in terms of becoming more cosmopolitan by acquiring experiential knowledge. You can read about world class cities and nature sites in books, and you can see pictures of famous monuments on the internet any time you want. But nothing is quite like experiencing them firsthand, which engages all of the senses and not just the visual.
The desire to know more is one of the strongest inclinations we experience, and incentive travel helps satisfy our incurable curiosity. Examples of locations at trip destinations that travelers love to explore include: world class museums, indigenous eateries, stunning private beaches,
ancient wineries and vineyards, and gorgeous nature preserves, to name just a few.
Ready to Plan Incentive Travel?
If you decide that incentive travel would be a good option for your company’s employee reward program, Incentive Travel Solutions is here to help your plan the perfect trip, and manage the trip from start to finish to ensure that everything goes as planned. Whether you prefer to stay in the Western hemisphere or travel somewhere less familiar and more exotic, we’ll help you plan a trip whose exciting destination and activities motivate employees to qualify for the next trip.
To get started on planning an incentive travel trip for your top performers, give us a call today at (704) 540-1482, or use the contact page on our website. Your well-deserved adventure awaits!
Incentive Travel Trips: 6 Benefits of Corporate Travel
/in Incentive TravelIncentive travel is an unfamiliar term to many, but specially planned incentive travel trips to amazing destinations can play an essential role in making top business performers feel adequately compensated, and motivating them to perform at a high level to qualify for the next incentive travel trip. Employees benefit from the trips for the relaxation and pleasure they offer. Employers benefit from the high level of productivity that justifies offering the exciting journeys.
Benefits for Employees and Companies
Over the past five years, studies have revealed statistics from various organizations that point to the need for incentive-based travel that provides a much needed vacation away from the workplace, but incentive travel trips have important benefits for the companies that offer them, too. Below, we look at three benefits for employers and three benefits for their employees.
When we say we handle arrangements, we mean that we literally plan and oversee all aspects of the trip, from securing airline contracts, to negotiating hotel accommodations, to ensuring that enjoyable activities occur as planned, and much more. The same detail to attention also applies to the return trip.
Your employees may already enjoy a good sense of camaraderie; otherwise, they wouldn’t work together well enough to qualify for incentive travel. But incentive travel trips can bring them closer together, as they share rich, cultural experiences that promote friendship and not just a sense of professional respect.
When you and your top performers embark on the amazing journey, you travel with a team of sidekicks who are our very own travel staff. These staff members attend to your wants and needs during the trip and resolve any unforeseen discrepancies in the travel itinerary. On a a standard vacation, you would do this on your own. On an incentive travel trip, they are handled on your behalf.
Because incentive travel is offered to top performers, many of whom are well-compensated enough to afford their own phonomenal vacations, the key to up the ante and provide a journey that has two key characteristics: a world class destination that involves activities that would impress an international diplomat on his or her initial trip to the appointment’s destination.
It can be a bit of a shock going from leisurely back to the daily grind, but studies have shown that incentive travel doesn’t turn employees into beach bums who don’t want to lose their tan. Rather, it helps them return to work with a renewed sense of vitality that has a positive impact on coworker relations and morale. Your next travel trip promises the same results.
Performance bonuses, big raises, stock options, promotions: These are common ways that companies reward top performers. While “money talks”, as the famous saying goes, incentive travel can speak even louder when it comes to rewarding workers who seemingly “have it all” in the financial department. There’s a reason we say our trips “create memories that last a lifetime.”
Ready to Add Incentive Travel to the Employee Reward Program?
If so, partnering with Incentive Travel Solutions to develop an incentive travel trip puts your interests in the hands of a company that has extensive experience creating trips whose destinations, activities, and sense of luxury are highly distinctive. Over the years, we’ve found that the trips we create with the help of our clients provide a tangible reward for business success and serve as great motivator for employees whose compensation is tied to performance.
To get started on creating an incentive-based travel plan to reward employees whose success is imperative for the success of your company, call us today at (704) 540-1482, or use our contact form. We look forward to hearing about your wants and needs that will define your travels.
Luxurious Incentive Travel Trips: 4 Ways to Make Trips More Luxurious
/in Incentive TravelNow 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.