Archive for August, 2009
How Clients’ Concerns Can Help You Be a Better Meeting Planner
You just got a call from a client who wants an inclusive travel plan but is worried about “things.” Rather than rolling your eyes at yet another paranoid patron, you can use this information to help you find out exactly what will make her happy.
In fact, before you plan anything for anyone you should find [...]
Your Education in Inclusive Travel
It’s important to break the news to all of you who want to specialize in inclusive incentive travel–or already do–but you should be doing more research for your profession. That doesn’t mean you should be on the Internet all day looking for even better inclusive package deals. I means that you should be going on [...]
More About the Little Inclusions
Cruise meeting events are already a popular inclusive incentive travel deal. They include everything, which makes your jobs easier, makes the client’s bill more definite, and leaves nothing to chance. However, a recent trip to the T-Mobile website revealed another consideration many people don’t talk about when discussing inclusive travel–the ubiquitous cell phone.
If you’re sending [...]
Updates on Deals
It is as we all expected–as the world’s economy stays in the tank, promotions and special deals are popping up all over. Businesses are trying to keep at least their nostrils above the water line, and the travel industry is not different. As Abigail Ho wrote in “Airlines in promo frenzy” (Philippine Daily Inquirer, business.inquirer.net, [...]
Online Cruise Meeting Marketplace
I recently attended the 2009 Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Southeast Educational Conference at the Edon Roc in Miami Beach where I had the chance to speak with Brad Nickel, VP of Marketing for Landry & Kling. He was very excited about the upcoming launch of a new resource for meeting and incentive professionals: Seasite.com.
Seasite.com, a new [...]
Sometimes It’s the Little Things
To the outsider, a first glance at inclusive travel planning can seem like the planner has the worst of all worlds. It appears that flexibility has gone by the wayside when looking for inclusive travel. However, inclusive does not necessarily apply to the whole trip. Here are a couple of examples of how smaller inclusive [...]
What Bad Times Can Do For You
Let’s face it, even though meeting planners have had some pretty good years in the last 25, the pressure of the problems broke the economy’s back in 2008 and it all came tumbling down. However, during those great years many sales forces — even the one member of the single-person businesses–sat back and enjoyed the [...]
When Clients Delay
Many businesses are trying to put off spending a lot of money right now, especially if it’s on incentive or reward travel. Although delays may help them in the short run, they are not only delaying spending money, they are delaying rewarding a star performer. The ROI on that will be zero, and maybe in [...]
All Inclusive Aruba
Aruba is characterized by a superb hospitality industry that encourages more and more corporate groups to organize incentive trips there all year round. All inclusive resorts offer a good value. One interesting all inclusive is the Tamarijn Aruba Mega.
The all-inclusive, all-oceanfront Tamarijn Aruba Mega features 236 oceanfront rooms, all meals and snacks at 3 restaurants, [...]
Off the Beaten Path in the Hawaiian Islands
Many think that a vacation in Hawaii is about the closest thing to a perfect get-away they will find. However, lots of them book vacations at the popular resorts and beachfront hotels without realizing that they may spend more time trying not to step on other tourists than they will seeing the real beauty of [...]
