Corporate incentive travel services are designed to help companies create luxurious, unique trips that reward employees for reaching business goals that make them qualify for incentive travel — a form of travel that helps employees come closer together as a team, share unforgettable experiences, and motivates them to qualify for future incentive travel trips.
If your company is looking for new ways to reward performance, and this is your first time considering using corporate incentive travel services, you may have some questions about what you can receive from us a your trusted trip planner. That’s why we’re taking the time to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about our corporate incentive travel services.
- Can you help me decide who qualifies for the trip?
Many companies establish their own travel trip qualifications, but we can certainly provide with examples of qualifications that other companies have used to great success. Once you decide how many people you want to potentially qualify the trip, it becomes easier to set qualifications.
- Do you facilitate travels to foreign destinations?
Yes. In addition to providing corporate incentive travel services for U.S. destinations, we provide the same services for foreign destinations. As long as it’s safe for you to travel to a particular foreign country, we’ll ensure that you get there in style, and thoroughly enjoy the destination.
- How will I handle hotel and travel reservations?
You don’t need to handle hotel and travel reservations; that’s what we’re here for. We have years of experience in airline contract negotiation and negotiating hotel contracts. In addition, we help you select methods of travel and forms of lodging that help make the trip unique.
- Can you help me plan an itinerary of activities?
Yes. This is another area of incentive travel that we specialize in. When we plan your travel itinerary, we strive to deliver what we call the “wow factor”, which means that your travelers will literally be wowed by the activities that they experience on the trip, from start to finish.
- What role does your on-site travel staff play?
Our on-site travel staff go with you on the trip to handle any unforeseen wants and needs, and to ensure that the travel itinerary delivers the ultra pleasurable experience you anticipate. Moreover, our travel staff let you focus on the trip without worrying about it going as planned.
- How long do your travel trips typically last?
How long a trip lasts is ultimately up to you, although the duration of the trip obviously depends on your budget, and what you think delivers a meaningful incentive. With that said, most incentive travel trips last several days — enough time to let you truly enjoy the destination.
Start Planning Your Trip Today
Incentive travel trips are more than unique, enjoyable journeys that create lasting memories among coworkers. They also serve as a major motivator for improved business performance, especially for employees who are compensated to the point that receiving significant, annual salary increases and lucrative, quarterly performance bonuses is nothing novel or new.
To get started on using our corporate incentive travel services to plan a travel trip that rewards your workers in highly unique ways, give us a call today at (704) 540-1482, or fill out our contact form. We look forward to helping you choose the best options for your unique vision of what should comprise an incentive travel trip for your best performers.
Using Corporate Incentive Travel Services: Frequently Asked Questions
/in Press and NewsCorporate incentive travel services are designed to help companies create luxurious, unique trips that reward employees for reaching business goals that make them qualify for incentive travel — a form of travel that helps employees come closer together as a team, share unforgettable experiences, and motivates them to qualify for future incentive travel trips.
If your company is looking for new ways to reward performance, and this is your first time considering using corporate incentive travel services, you may have some questions about what you can receive from us a your trusted trip planner. That’s why we’re taking the time to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about our corporate incentive travel services.
Many companies establish their own travel trip qualifications, but we can certainly provide with examples of qualifications that other companies have used to great success. Once you decide how many people you want to potentially qualify the trip, it becomes easier to set qualifications.
Yes. In addition to providing corporate incentive travel services for U.S. destinations, we provide the same services for foreign destinations. As long as it’s safe for you to travel to a particular foreign country, we’ll ensure that you get there in style, and thoroughly enjoy the destination.
You don’t need to handle hotel and travel reservations; that’s what we’re here for. We have years of experience in airline contract negotiation and negotiating hotel contracts. In addition, we help you select methods of travel and forms of lodging that help make the trip unique.
Yes. This is another area of incentive travel that we specialize in. When we plan your travel itinerary, we strive to deliver what we call the “wow factor”, which means that your travelers will literally be wowed by the activities that they experience on the trip, from start to finish.
Our on-site travel staff go with you on the trip to handle any unforeseen wants and needs, and to ensure that the travel itinerary delivers the ultra pleasurable experience you anticipate. Moreover, our travel staff let you focus on the trip without worrying about it going as planned.
How long a trip lasts is ultimately up to you, although the duration of the trip obviously depends on your budget, and what you think delivers a meaningful incentive. With that said, most incentive travel trips last several days — enough time to let you truly enjoy the destination.
Start Planning Your Trip Today
Incentive travel trips are more than unique, enjoyable journeys that create lasting memories among coworkers. They also serve as a major motivator for improved business performance, especially for employees who are compensated to the point that receiving significant, annual salary increases and lucrative, quarterly performance bonuses is nothing novel or new.
To get started on using our corporate incentive travel services to plan a travel trip that rewards your workers in highly unique ways, give us a call today at (704) 540-1482, or fill out our contact form. We look forward to helping you choose the best options for your unique vision of what should comprise an incentive travel trip for your best performers.
Full Service Incentive Travel: What Constitutes Full Service?
/in Incentive TravelCompanies 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Best Corporate Travel Programs – Three Key Features that Set the Experts Apart
/in Employee MotivationPlanning incentive-based travel trips that reward employees for great performance is similar to playing the game of golf: Almost anyone can do it, but few people do it exceptionally well. This is why your company should consider using the services of a travel planner that has experience in helping companies get the most value from their corporate travel programs.
Compared to travel planners that lack experience with corporate travel programs, planners that specialize in corporate travel typically possess three key features: They help you plan the trip down to the smallest detail, assist you with choosing trip activities that are unforgettable, and provide travel staff to attend you on your trip. Let’s take a look at the benefits of each feature.
1. Comprehensive Planning
Comprehensive planning starts with major tasks such as hotel negotiation and airline contract negotiation and ends with detail-oriented tasks such as ensuring that hotel spa services include specific treatments and ensuring that a specific type of champagne will be available on the flight. Your standard travel planner will handle the big details, but it won’t spend hours making sure that your trip is meticulously planned down to the smallest, value-added travel benefits.
2. Unforgettable Activities
We like to say that unforgettable travel activities have what we call the “wow factor”. Unless employees are “wowed” by what they experience on a trip, their motivation to qualify for the next trip may not be especially high, which could translate into mediocre sales growth and an average customer retention rate for the coming year. Activities for trips we plan are more than just fun. They are unforgettable occasions that motivate employees to qualify for the next trip.
3. Dedicated Travel Staff
Almost everyone who has taken their fair share of vacation trips has experienced some type of glitch in travel plans that a trip would have been more enjoyable without. This is why travel planners that have expertise in corporate travel programs commonly include on-site travel staff for your trip. If any aspect of the trip isn’t going as expected, or you need personal assistance during activities, on-site travel staff will be there to make the situation right and lend a hand.
Ready to Plan an Incentive Travel Trip?
If so, you’ve come to the right place. Incentive Travel Solutions has years of experience helping companies of all sizes in various industries leverage corporate travel programs to provide highly meaningful rewards for top performers, and increase annual productivity by motivating these employees to qualify for the next trip. Comprehensive trip planning, planning unforgettable trip activities, and providing on-site travel staff are three essential keys for achieving the goals.
To get started on planning a corporate travel trip that can have a positive impact on customer retention and sales growth, please call us today at (704) 540-1482, or complete our contact form. We look forward to helping you plan trips that are highly memorable for your top performers and motivate them to work even harder for the success of your company.
Sales Incentive Trips: Scenarios for Establishing the Reward Structure
/in Incentive TripSales incentive trips are exactly what they sound like: unique excursions that serve as strong motivators for salespeople to perform at the highest level. However, because the point of the trips is to reward top performance, not every salesperson may qualify to take them. Ultimately, it is up to a company to decide how sales team members will qualify for incentive trips. With this in mind, we take a look at four scenarios for establishing the reward structure for travel trips.
With this option, salespeople qualify for a trip when they fall within a certain percentage range that indicates top performance. For example, in terms of revenue generated from sales, you could reward the top 10 percent or 20 percent of your team with a sales incentive trip. This is a good option because it helps companies predict exactly how much they will spend on the trip.
Another way to establish the reward structure is to reward salespeople with a trip when they reach a pre-set goal. For example, you could offer a trip to employees who generate at least a certain number of quality leads or nurture at least a certain number of leads into clients. This is a good option because it provides employees with a set goal for qualifying for incentive trips.
A third option for the reward structure is to offer sales incentive trips to workers who show the most improvement from the previous year based on specific criteria, such as lead development or sales. This is a good option because it gives encouragement to blossoming employees who may not qualify for a trip based on the structures above. The drawback is that top performers may not show significant improvement because they already perform at the highest level.
Yet another option for establishing the reward structure is to offer different types of trips to employees who perform at different levels. For example, the top 10 percent of salespeople could be rewarded with a unique trip to an international destination, while the next 10 percent could be rewarded with a tourist trip to a national destination. Some companies aren’t interested in this option due to cost concerns. However, this reward structure is valuable for motivating employees who are on the cusp of top performance to keep working hard and perform better.
Why Use Sales Incentive Trips to Motivate Your Team?
Here are several reasons to use sales incentive trips to motivate your sales team to reach new heights. Some of the most important ones are: What the reward consists of is known from the start, which helps provide motivation to qualify for it; when planned with the help of an incentive travel trip planner, travel trips can truly be once in a lifetime experiences; and highly unique travel trips offer something that many people consider as valuable as money: world class travel.
Incentive Travel Solutions has years of experience in helping companies plan sales incentive trips that are once in a lifetime experiences, and thus motivate sales teams to qualify for the journeys. Regardless of the reward structure you choose, we’ll help you plan a trip whose uniqueness provides your sales team with a strong motivation to qualify for the reward. To start planning a sales incentive trip, call us today at (704) 540-1482 to set up a free consultation.
Creating Corporate Travel Incentives That Work: Four Considerations
/in Press and NewsCorporate travel incentives are popular for motivating employees to perform to the best of their abilities. However, the level of motivation the trips provide is inherently based on the uniqueness and overall quality of the travel experience. To create corporate travel incentives that work for their intended purpose, companies should make at least four considerations when planning inventive-based travel trips: destination, cost, activities, and support from a travel trip planner.
Because the allure of corporate travel incentives depends heavily on the uniqueness of the travel destination, the goal is to choose a destination that those who qualify the trip will remember for life. For example, while taking a trip to coastal Florida may be enjoyable, for most U.S. citizens, taking a trip to coastal Sardinia would be a far more memorable experience regarding the travel destination. When planning a trip, focus on choosing a rare destination.
When the cost of incentive travel trips is discussed, the focus is typically on how much a company should spend based on its operating budget. Less discussed is how much money companies should dedicate to making the trip enjoyable and highly memorable to employees. Because the enjoyment of a travel trip naturally motivates workers to qualify for the next trip, focus on creating a trip budget that is large enough to afford a truly unique travel experience.
The money you set aside for an incentive travel trip naturally determines the activities you enjoy while traveling and how many activities you and your diligent workers get to experience. The activities you choose are based on where you travel and how you get there. However, in all situations, the goal is to select activities that are as pleasurable and unique as the destination itself. The activities you enjoy are largely responsible for creating lasting memories of the trip.
Because corporate travel incentives generally apply to trips that involve several unique activities, special lodging accommodations, and special travel accommodations, it’s a good idea to take your trip with the support of an experienced incentive travel trip planner. The planner can provide support staff that travel with your group to ensure that everything goes as planned, which is an important aspect of motivating employees to qualify for the next incentive travel trip.
Start Planning Your Trip Today
Creating corporate travel incentives that motivate employees to qualify for incentive-based travel trips can be a tedious affair in terms of choosing the right destination, deciding how much to spend on a trip, deciding what activities to participate in while traveling, and receiving third party support to ensure that a trip goes exactly as planned. This is why many companies turn to Incentive Travel Solutions for assistance with planning and executing incentive travel trips.
For your trip to be truly enjoyable, it needs to be hassle-free on your end — and this is what we can help you accomplish. To learn more about how we can assist you with taking a unique, exciting trip that motivates your workers to qualify for the trip and trips thereafter, please call us today at (704) 540-1482 to schedule a free consultation. We look forward to hearing from you!
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