Bindiya | Luxxury MICE Travel | 28 April 2019

Usually a Corporate Incentive Travel program (to a top incentive travel destination) is a 4-Night 5-Day retreat; members look at it more of a company paid holiday and just come back, unless it is backed by a specific corporate objective to be achieved. Depending upon the maturity of the organization, specific objectives should be aimed to be realized as the corporate and incentive travel comes to an end.

In times when business travel (both domestic and overseas) has increased substantially, the incentive travel program could be just one more travel for any corporate executive who travels as a part of his job. Organizations try and squeeze in so much into the incentive trips travel itinerary, that it does not seem to be motivating enough for teams to beat performances. Sightseeing, one Gala Dinner, some time for local shopping and that’s about it. Typically a program would be the same, minor modifications here and there.

A professional corporate incentive travel planner or an incentive travel agency addresses such concerns and ensures that the MICE Incentive Travel (or MICE Business Travel) generates an ROI much higher than expected. So as you choose to award the contract to MICE companies in Delhi or MICE companies in Mumbai (Luxxury MICE India), ensure that elements like these are integrated into the program right from the word go.

A top incentive travel company wouldn’t require to be briefed on these, as they would drive the best output of a MICE corporate travel program. Choosing a right MICE travel agency (like Luxxury MICE India) with the right background becomes absolutely imperative for the success of the program.





#1 Position – The Surprise Element

The corporate travel incentive program should have atleast one big Surprise Element. A few call it the WOW factor, some call it the delight factor, but essentially it means something that makes the delegate drop his jaw. It could be an accommodation at an exotic location; the Food factor; the unique activity factor; the Gala night or the entertainment factor; the experience factor; or anything else that is extremely Delightful for the member to experience; something he never expected and a kind of experience that he wouldn’t buy on his own, so that it stays with them forever.

#2 – The Happiness Quotient

Linked to the first one, the MICE and corporate incentive travel program must have an extraordinary objective to make everyone happy. The best teams that have delivered outstanding performances round-the-year truly deserve a holiday that completely relaxes – rejuvenates-recharges them. And the mice agency should go the extra mile in making them happy all the way.



Happy delegate at 12 Apostles, Great Ocean Road, Melbourne. Image Courtesy: MICE INDIA

Small things can make people happy; you don’t need big budgets to make someone happy. Just simply care for day-to-day requirements, respect and warmth. Simply giving them free time to explore the destination on their own, simply let go and watch the smile on their face.

Organisations are making every effort to reduce business hours during such MICE and corporate travel incentives and activating all that makes the teams happy. Period.

#3 – Team Building

Every corporate incentive travel program should include atleast one team building activity. And especially when teams are from different geographies, those who have never met before, it breaks the ice and builds bonds. These bonds built at MICE events, travel a long way in the minds of the people; and helps team perform better when they go back to their respective locations.







Group games, group initiatives, group problem solving could be few such examples and just the open spaces at the venue could be ideal for an hour-long activity. Making lunch for each other is a great team building activity. The results are amazing.

#4 – Experience Local flavor

The youth of today has become extremely adventurous. And loves to explore and experiment local flavors of the destination. Shopping is not on their bucket-list, but exploring local-cultural-ethnic fabric of the destination is certainly on top-of-their-priority list. It could be local food, local wines, exotic fruits, sweets, art, cinema, sport, local markets, sustainability; the modern day executive loves to be a part of the local culture and immerses himself into it.

Corporates should include local indulgence into the incentive trips.

#5 – Community Development / Social

Community Support to Thai temple. Image Courtesy: MICE INDIA

Being a part of a local social cause and anything to help Community Development, with a sense of contribution, brings a happy feeling to an executive; that he/she has helped benefit a social cause. Helping a small tribal manufacturing unit; feeding the baby elephants with milk; releasing turtles into the water; planting trees; and so on. It leaves the executives fulfilled.

#6 – Personalization

Personalization of Gifts and Give aways to team members goes a long way, in making and strengthening that one-to-one connect. And a pro mice travel agent or mice travel agency understands this well. Gifts and give-aways are always a part of the corporate travel; but if the organization goes one step further in personalizing the gifts to each delegate; it gets embedded into the hard disks of the delegates; showing that the company cares for them.

Generic would always be generic, with no emotional appeal; but personalized would spark emotions into the same gift.

The Objective and the end result – Team members should be completely and thoroughly rejuvenated and recharged; looking forward to the next targets and achievement strategies. Who knows what exotic destination would be next year.

An organization needs to work harder towards identifying and awarding contract to an apt group incentive travel agency; may be hard to find a well-aligned incentive travel agent, but once done, the incentive travel company can work wonders for the growth of the Corporate. For more insights like these visit MICE INDIAA

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