August 14, 2015 / in Incentive Travel “I got a guy”… as the saying goes. At Incentive Travel Solutions we have many “guys” and ladies around the world that are critical to our success. Our key destination partnerships are vital to a flawless and memorable incentive travel program. One such partnership is extremely special. The ITS travel partnership in Italy goes back almost 25 years. The partnership has become a friendship, and we are proud to share this relationship as well as all of our travel relationships with you, our clients and their special guests. In 2014, our partners in Italy offered Incentive Travel Solutions and our clients a special event. Imagine your guests gathering for an evening out in Rome. Imagine passing by the St. Peter’s Cathedral, one of the most recognizable churches throughout the world. Then, imagine turning into St. Peter’s square with your guests as they stare out the window, anxious to take pictures of this beautiful basilica. Now imagine, a private tour of the Vatican and Sistine Chapel without the thousands of visitors. And, following the private tour, imagine a reception and dinner in the gardens of the Vatican. This dream can now be a reality thanks to the Incentive Travel Solutions planning Team and our special partnerships in Italy. An incentive trip starts with an imagination and a vision. Turning that vision into a reality takes years of experience and dedication. Incentive Travel Solutions Team looks forward to sharing our vision and experience with you and your guests.

August 19, 2015 / in Incentive Travel Destination Matters Choosing a destination requires matching a client’s goals and objectives with budgets and travelers’ expectations. The key to a successful destination search is experience and yes, more experience. The Team at Incentive Travel Solutions has operated incentive trips in 97 countries and over 200 cities around the world. Without an intimate understanding of a destination’s strengths and limitations, an incentive trip may not be successful. Irish Eyes Are Smiling In 2005, Incentive Travel Solutions had the pleasure of operating a client incentive trip for 80 of their key distributors and guests. After a lengthy destination search, Ireland was selected as the host country. With many towns and regions to choose from in Ireland, it was decided to stay three nights in Killarney, two nights in Adare and a night in Ashford Castle. The trip was a tremendous success primarily because the winners and their guests bonded so well with the local Irish people and the hotel employees. Experience with knowing the client’s personality and history, as well as their attendees for many years, help the ITS planning Team select the perfect destination year after year for this company’s President’s Club Trip.

November 1, 2015 / in Press and News Every company wants its work positions to be staffed with the best talent in the field, but motivating top talent to accept a job offer is only half the battle. Once top performers are on the payroll, you have to find a way to keep them there. There are several ways to do this, but four strategies stand out for their time-tested effectiveness at accomplishing the task. Below, we take a look at these four strategies in terms of their usefulness for keeping top talent employed. 1. Hire Talent in the Proper Work Capacity If you hire a top performing online marketing specialist as the webmaster for your company’s web pages, he or she might be able to do the job with closed eyes, but therein lies the problem. Instead of desiring “cake jobs”, top performers tend to like challenges in the workplace that let them exhibit their skills and add to the work as they go. Lack of job satisfaction among top performers is one of the main reasons why companies fail at keeping top talent employed. 2. Let Talent Lead When Appropriate Top talent is identified as such for a reason: Top performing employees are often self-starters who proactively look for ways to increase their performance. Consequently, they often have insightful ideas about improving the execution of business processes, implementing cost saving measures, and more. You may be the boss, but letting your top performers help shape the way your company does business is a great way for keeping top talent where you want it: in-house. 3. Reward Talent in Memorable Ways If an employee is already considered top talent when your company hires him or her, you know that the person is almost certainly accustomed to receiving generous bonuses and raises. The individual will expect to receive these rewards from your company, too. So, what can you do to put your organization in a unique light in the eyes of the new hire? One option is offering incentive travel trips to unique destinations that create memories that will never be forgotten. 4. Encourage Good Work Relationships When workers are under the gun to meet business goals and experience stress, encouraging good work relationships is easier said than done. Because of their high performance value, top talent often experiences this situation. Consequently, creating good relationships outside the workplace, and then bringing them back into it, is a good option. One way to do this is to send top performers on an incentive travel trip that helps them bond individually and as a team. Need Solutions for Keeping Top Talent? If your company is searching for effective ways to keep top talent in the fold, there are several options to choose from, one of which is offering incentive travel trips to top performers. In addition to strengthening your employees’ dedication to your company out of gratitude, offering great trips also fosters the benefits of better teamwork and improved workplace morale. For help planning the most rewarding incentive travel trips, give us a call today at (704) 540-1482.

January 22, 2016 / in Employee Motivation Which would you rather receive: an employer-sponsored, free trip to a beautiful destination that includes a plethora of unique, entertaining sights, or money? It would cost to send you on the trip in the form of a bonus check? If you are tempted to choose the latter, just remember that bonuses have been a part of your employment history for several years, so you might feel inclined to choose the unique trip instead. This is one reason why thriving companies offer travel trips as work incentives to employees who perform at the top of their game. Often, these employees are considered “top talent” and have reaped the benefits of that status in the form of large, performance-based bonuses. “Money talks,” as the old saying goes, but for top talent, incentive travel trips can talk more convincingly, as it were, serving as ideal work incentives for the four reasons listed below. 1. More Tangible Than Money Receiving money is exciting, but only because receiving the things that money can buy is even more exciting. For most performers, after all, there are different ways of compensating them — a reward comprised not of cash or checks, but of an incentive travel trip at a way to connect on a deeper level. That top performers might spend their generous bonuses on if they had the opportunity to do so. Due to the exceptional uniqueness of the trips, that chance seldom exists. 2. Nearly Impossible to Recreate The anatomy of an incentive travel trip is as follows: A company sends qualifying employees on an exciting journey that the company pays for. While on the trip, travelers experience unique adventures and see what are selected with the help of an incentive travel trip planner. Bonding with fellow employees while enjoying novel experiences is a highly rewarding experience on a personal level, and is typically an experience that is almost impossible to create on one’s own. 3. Improves Employee Relationships For most companies, incentive travel trips are about more than rewarding top performers with unique travel experiences. The trips also serve to strengthen relationships between employees by providing them with a shared experience. When they return, other workers see the trip’s recipients as top performers, helping to foster a team environment that exhibits bold morale. Simply stated, monetary or commission bonuses don’t present these qualitative benefits. 4. Doesn’t Replace Annual Bonuses Important clarification: Incentive travel trips seldom use them to replace annual bonuses. Due to budgetary considerations, bonuses may be smaller than they would be if trips were not offered, but top performers aren’t left wondering that they had received bonuses instead of a trip to a special destination. Most companies that offer incentive travel trips as rewards that extend beyond bonuses to further motivate a company’s most valuable performers to maintain top performance. Start Planning Your Trip Today Annual bonuses are great work incentives for rewarding employees for excellent performance, but incentive travel trips in the reward structure can deliver benefits that bonuses alone do not, particularly strong employee relationships that improve morale in the workplace. For assistance planning a trip that presents these benefits, call us today at (704) 540-1482. We look forward to providing you and your dedicated employees with a work incentive like no other!

January 26, 2016 / in Incentive Trip Some wine vineyards are like luxury cars; they promise the experience of luxury, but there isn’t much luxuriousness to be found. As wine vineyards go, Buena Vista Winery in California is the exception. Founded in 1857 by Agoston Haraszthy, and located adjacent to the San Francisco Bay, Buena Vista Winery has been one of California’s premier wineries for over a century. It is also a great destination for an incentive travel trip for your company’s hard working employees. Sprawling Vineyards The winery’s sprawling vineyards whose vines hang heavy with plump grapes are almost as pleasing to experience as the wine they produce. Impeccably maintained, the vineyards feature great weather that is both balmy and cool from the gentle winds that blow from San Francisco Bay. This makes them a great sight seeing location for wine lovers, who would like to get an up close look at how vineyards actually grow, as distinguished from fields that hold other crops. Superior Reds and Whites Some vineyards specialize in harvesting grapes for red wines that are preferred in the cool season, while other vineyards primarily emphasize growing white grapes to create summer wines. Buena Vista Winery has a holistic focus to winemaking that includes producing some of the best red wines and white wines found in California and beyond. When it is time to order libations, try glasses of the winery’s delicious Carneros Chardonnay and Carneros Pinot Noir. First Class Service Fine wine is synonymous with luxury and leisure, but some wineries fail to offer much of either. As the Sonoma area’s longest-lived, premier winery, Buena Vista Winery has over 150 years of experience in defining a first-class wine experience. Offering the best service begins with producing the best wines and extends into the wine tasting area, where customers are vigilantly attended to like they are first-class guests, because that is precisely what they are. Ready to Plan an Incentive Travel Trip? At Incentive Travel Solutions we believe that group travel award programs must inspire winners with unique and memorable destinations as well as creative itineraries. We help clients “raise the bar” year after year so their top performers will continue aspiring to achieve the highest levels of performance. We look forward to making a trip that your employees will remember for years to come, and motivates them to work harder for your company’s next incentive travel trip! Call us today at (704) 540-1482, or fill out our contact form.

February 5, 2016 / in Incentive Travel Program Companies that realize the value of human resources for achieving sales goals are naturally inclined to offer incentive programs that keep top sellers in the fold instead of letting them defect to other companies within the same market space. If your company is looking for an incentive program idea for sales for rewarding top performers on the sales team, we strongly recommend that you consider using incentive-based travel trips as a reward. Below are helpful tips for how to do it. 1. Make the Award Annual One of the most important aspects of using travel trips as an incentive program idea for sales success is to make them seem truly special, part of which involves taking the trips at long intervals, such as once a year. You could always reward your best sellers with trips based on quarterly performance, but the excursions naturally wouldn’t seem as special as if they were held annually. Furthermore, holding trips annually makes them more financially feasible. 2. Limit the Award to Few Employee oriented companies are always looking for ways to reward diligent workers for commendable performance, but it’s important to provide awards that are commensurate with the level of achievement. Due to their considerable cost and unique characteristics, using travel trips as an incentive program idea for sales success should ideally be a strategy that targets the top performers (e.g., the top 10 percent of sale closers). Offer your best sellers the best reward. 3. Focus on Unique Travels Regardless of the destination (as long as it isn’t dangerous), travel in itself can be rewarding. The mental associations that people make with scenes in their native environment — for better or worse — are gone when they set their eyes on new sights. But that isn’t what makes an inventive travel trip unique. To score high on the uniqueness scale, you need to choose a unique destination, coordinate unique activities, and offer unique travel and lodgings. 4. Use a Travel Trip Planner Using an experienced incentive travel trip planner to plan and facilitate your incentive-based trip for top sellers is similar to using a corporate attorney to negotiate business mergers: Why not trust professionals when you need them in the capacity in which they specialize? In addition to planning your entire trip based on your wants and needs, an incentive travel trip planner will send a dedicated support staff to you on your journey to ensure everything goes as planned. Contact Incentive Travel Solutions This is the level of service you receive from Incentive Travel Solutions, when you make us your trusted provider of incentive opportunities. We arrange trips that truly feel like a reward for top sales performance — from selecting the most enjoyable means of travel, to arranging luxury lodgings, to planning highly unique activities at your destination — all according to your wants and needs.

February 15, 2016 / in Press and News Business travel programs are a unique way to reward executives and workers who go above and beyond the call of everyday business. However, most companies don’t offer the trips without desiring something in return. They want trips that comprise business travel programs to motivate employees who take the trips to mirror their great performance in the coming year, with qualifying for the next travel trip serving as a primary motivator for maintaining success. Statistics for Business Travel Programs Lots of companies have anecdotes about how business travel programs motivate performance. However, before you implement a travel program, it’s a good idea not to put too much stock in another company’s story of success, and look at statistics that provide a broad view of how business travel programs work for companies at large. Below are recent statistics from the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) that point to the success of business travel programs: Providing non-cash rewards creates revenue increases three times higher than average. Companies with the best customer retention and sales growth offer travel as a reward. Travel rewards can increase sales by 18 percent and produce an ROI up to 112 percent. These statistics are only averages, but they matter a great deal considering how many companies offer incentive travel trips to reward top business performance. The IRF study referenced above also states that nearly 50 percent of U.S. businesses use incentive travel as a performance reward, and that businesses in the U.S. spend $22.5 billion a year on incentive travel trips. Creating the Best Business Travel Trips As positive as the statistics above may seem, they are underpinned by something that is essential for experiencing the success they quantify: Planning trips that are highly rewarding from beginning to end. These types of trips are typically facilitated by a company that specializes in planning and executing incentive based trips, such as Incentive Travel Solutions. With us working as your trusted travel planner, you receive the following benefits, among others: Trip planned within travel budget Travel to a unique destination Pre-arranged travel and lodging Travel itinerary of exciting activities Travel staff that help manage the trip The IRF study also found that incentive travel budgets per person now average as much as $3,440 person. That is a significant amount of money to invest in a trip that doesn’t achieve its intended effect of motivating top business performance in the coming year. That’s why we recommend that you contact us before plans for your next incentive travel trip are finalized. Contact Incentive Travel Solutions At Incentive Travel Solutions, we specialize in helping companies make the most of their business travel programs. To kick off the travel planning process, please call us today at (704) 540-1482, or use our contact form, to schedule a free consultation. We look forward to helping your company plan a trip that is unforgettable for all the right reasons and motivates your workforce to qualify for the next unforgettable trip at year’s end. Start planning today!

February 23, 2016 / in Incentive Travel Hot air balloons are among the oldest forms of air travel that are still in use. Unlike the modern age of sleek, high-speed jets, hot air balloons coast from a nest of treetops to more than 4,000 feet in the air over the course of hours. The view is obvious. Nothing quite like gazing at the earth in a luxury hot air balloon ride. 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 into 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 feel in co-worker’s ranks, makes them feel important to their employer, and helps motivate them to operate at the highest level in anticipation of the next, awe-inspiring incentive 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 routinely coordinates ballooning events on a hot air balloon trip to 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 ballooning trip as unforgettable in reality as it sounds in this blog: Let Professionals Navigate the Air Balloons Air travel always involves the consideration of passenger safety. At Incentive Travel Solutions, we will coordinate for your groups’ hot air balloon trip to be guided only by the most experienced air balloon pilots. Let them take the stress out of the rigors as you and your employees enjoy the breathtaking scenery of beautiful vineyard harvests that expand in every direction. If you live no where near Napa, we’ll get you there in a way that you have never seen them before! Make a Famous Winery Your Destination What would a hot air balloon vineyard topography be without making a famous winery your air balloon destination? Napa wine vineyard territory has an ample supply of fields that stretch for 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 vineyards, you can 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 Hot air balloon incentive travel arrangements that last for as little as one day and as long as several weeks. If balloon trips are planned in line for a reward program, they can encompass several hot air balloon outings that are part of a singular “travel plan” that can wrap around the most scenic and flavorful destinations throughout the Napa Valley. We’ll create an itinerary that lets your employees float above the cream of California’s most scenic, famous wine regions. Schedule Other Forms of Travel for Your Journey Scheduling a hot air balloon trip for employees isn’t your only travel option in Napa travel. There are plenty of memorable destinations throughout the area, from five-star restaurants to upscale shopping boutiques. You can easily visit by traveling on wheels. If this sounds like something that would appeal to your team and yield employee performance results, rely on 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, scheduling a hot air balloon trip over Napa Valley should be on your list of considerations. Everyone enjoys wind, so to speak, but few people enjoy the opportunity of gazing at length on the scenic region that produces the highest quality wines in the world. If you’re rewarding your employees for their work, think of the types 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 which vineyard they should visit. We handle everything else, from coordinating that you receive a crew trained in air balloons to making sure that you receive five-star treatment upon your arrival at the final destination. Planning incentive travel has never been this relaxing. To get started on planning your trip, and helping your employees unwind from daily pressures, 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!

March 5, 2016 / in Incentive Travel Program A company that possesses top sales talent and doesn’t reward the people that comprise the talent in a meaningful way is living on borrowed time. If top sellers feel that they are unde rappreciated and/or unrewarded, there is a good chance they will seek employment elsewhere, and target companies that have an excellent rewards structure, as they conduct their search. The good news is that your company can prevent this from happening by deploying a sales incentive program that entails an escalating series of rewards over the course of the year to help keep top talent motivated. Weekly Professional sports organizations hand out “player of the week” awards to honor the exceptional performance of an athlete within a given week. Implementing the same type of award for your sales team is a good idea for the same reason: It pays tribute to commendable performance that should be recognized because it differs sharply from the norm. In most cases, there isn’t money attached to the reward, but notice of top performance is still quite rewarding. Honoring top performers weekly creates an incentive for these employees to keep up the good work. Monthly Salespeople who perform the best within a single month usually don’t do so by a stroke of luck. They possess elite sales talent and know how to transmute it into generating quality leads and closing sales for nurtured leads. Because sustained, monthly success is inherently more valuable to the bottom line than weekly success, consider offering monthly top performers a modest financial reward, such as generous gift certificate to a five-star restaurant in the area. Annually Annual sales success should be rewarded the most generously because it demonstrates the most benefit to the bottom line. We recommend that you offer top sales associates a travel trip that is unique in terms of travel, destination, lodgings, and activities. Such trips give employees something to look forward to all year. Contact Incentive Travel Solutions If your company needs to develop a sales incentive program for top performers on the sales team, we can help you plan the ultimate, annual reward for sustained excellence in sales: A travel trip to an exotic destination that features unique entertainment after you arrive at the destination, and lodgings that make the trip feel like one that could not be easily accomplished on a personal travel budget. To get started on planning the ultimate reward for your sales incentive program, call Incentive Travel Solutions at (704) 540-1482, or refer to our contact page. We look forward to helping you plan a trip that your top sales performers will remember forever – a trip that will motivate them to work hard and qualify for the next trip to receive an unforgettable reward. The more you motivate your sales team, the better results you can expect from the sales process.

March 14, 2016 / in Incentive Trip Incentive travel trips are a popular way to reward employees for excellent performance in the workplace. As reported on the website smartmeetings.com , according to a recent study from the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), “At least 46 percent of U.S. businesses use incentive travel”. Furthermore, “U.S. businesses spend $22.5 billion a year on incentive travel.” Benefits of an Incentive Travel Trip Companies that shell out thousands of dollars for each employee who qualifies for an incentive travel trip do so out of more than good will. They also offer the trips hoping to receive a tangible return on the investment, particularly in the form of great business performance in the coming year. To this end, companies can benefit from incentive-based trips at least four crucial ways. 1. Customer Retention The IRF says that companies with the highest customer retention rate provide group travel to reward annual sales goals. When an incentive travel trip has the desired effect on business productivity by motivating employees to qualify for the next trip, a high rate of customer retention can result. Incentive trips are well-known for helping companies retain talented employees, but they can also help companies retain customers through the efforts of these employees. 2. Sales Growth The IRF also lists sales growth as a benefit of using incentive travel as a business reward. Specifically, companies with the highest sales growth offer group travel to reward year-end business goals. In addition to helping their employers retain customers, employees who are motivated to qualify for incentive trips help add new names to the customer roster. The IRF notes that “Incentive travel programs can increase sales productivity by 18 percent”. 3. Revenue Increases Growing the customer base is a benefit of incentive travel trips that yields yet another benefit: increased revenue. According to the IRF, companies that offer non-cash rewards experience revenue increases that are three times higher than the national average. Every company wants the bottom line to look better next year than it looks this year. An incentive travel trip can help make the dream of a significant revenue increase a reality. 4. Excellent ROI The return on investment (ROI) for incentive travel trips differs in each case. However, the IRF reports that, on average, “well-designed and well-executed incentive travel programs can produce an ROI of up to 112 percent.” The keys to realizing such a profitable ROI, of course, are offering a trip that is “well-designed and well-executed,” which is why many companies entrust the trip planning process to a provider of incentive travel services. Let Us Plan Your Incentive Travel Trip The experienced travel trip planners at Incentive Travel Solutions are here to help you plan a well-designed, well-executed travel trip. In creating the trip, we take several measures to ensure its success, including: planning the trip within your budget, selecting unique destinations and activities that are unforgettable, and sending travel staff with you to handle any loose ends. To learn about additional benefits of incentive travel, give us a call today at (704) 540-1482, or fill out our contact form, to set up a free consultation. We’ll assist you with creating a trip that helps deliver the four benefits above and others. Contact us today to get started!

March 29, 2016 / in Incentive Travel 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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.

April 5, 2016 / in Incentive Travel 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 job 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Dedicated Travel Staf f 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.