Corporations and small businesses who really care about their employees will oftentimes, during the holidays and throughout the year, give their employees corporate gifts and incentives.
Corporate gifts have ranged from watches, to parties, to candles, to dinners, to time off, to engraved coffee mugs, T-shirts, pens and more. The list can go on and on.
There is a new corporate gift being introduced to small businesses and larger corporations across the country that is taking off in popularity. It is exceptionally unique because it is a gift that everyone can use and it is a fact that the industry surrounding this gift is a $7 TRILLION industry.
What is this unique corporate gift? It’s the gift of travel, but not just any kind of travel, but deeply discounted travel that can be purchased by the corporation or given to an employee to purchase.
How does a corporation or company give the gift of travel? There is a unique company who researched the travel industry and who wanted to provide a better package for their own members. In their efforts to do so, they discovered a unique product that they could not only offer to their own members but they could now offer to the world. They created a whole new travel company to provide their own members the opportunity to travel for deep discounts, worldwide. They began to offer the same to corporations, individuals and small businesses. The opportunity they developed allows corporations, small businesses and individuals to pay a one time membership fee which allows them to download unlimited numbers of deep discount travel vouchers. The uses are almost endless. Through their market research they found that the new members could use these vouchers for themselves or give them away to employees, family, friends, business associates, potential customers, waiters and waitresses as tips, etc. The list is growing in ways that these travel vouchers can be used.
How much is this going to cost? The company offers unlimited, lifetime download of these vouchers for a one time membership fee of between $498 and $998 depending on which voucher program chosen. Remember that this may be tax deductible if you are using this for a business so be sure to check with a tax accountant. This is so incredibly inexpensive when the company considers that they can download an unlimited number of these vouchers as often as they want, whenever they want for as many years as they want as long as they remain a member. This is a one time membership fee to join and once the company or individual joins, they have access to a back office where they will have a choice of over 10 unique travel vouchers (more unique vouchers being added weekly) that they can download, an unlimited number of times, to give away to whomever they choose or use themselves.
Are there any other fees involved? Depending on the voucher program the company would choose, there is a monthly fee to maintain and provide you with your own corporate website which is given to the company or individual when they become a member. You can stop the membership at any time with no further obligation. In addition, the vouchers have redemption fees, but those redemption fees are miniscule compared to the total cost of the trips provided through the vouchers.
How does this work? The process is simple (and since it is a business investment, the corporation or company can check with their tax accountant to see if it is tax deductible). For a one time membership fee, the corporation or company or even individual joins the membership. Upon payment which takes place immediately on the site via credit card, they are emailed their password information and given access to the vouchers in the back office. They then register a name for their new business venture and sign up to receive their personal website. They can then go into their back office and pick and choose which vouchers they have an interest in (one or even all of them), download them immediately, copy them, distribute them, or, even better, use them as corporate gifts.
How many vouchers can be downloaded? The number is unlimited.
Can the company business name appear on the voucher? Yes, this is an unbelievable benefit. The vouchers are downloaded in a pdf format. There is a box where you can put your corporate information. The corporation can use the vouchers for as many business promotions as they’d like, for as many of the companies that they own, as often as they like. If the corporation or company distributes these vouchers for free with their business information n the vouchers, that is free advertising.
Can these vouchers be given out as business promotion tools to get new customers? Absolutely, the companies can give these out to potential new customers and use as business promotion tools by putting their own company information right on the voucher.
How can these vouchers be used as corporate gifts? The vouchers are discount travel vouchers. For example, one voucher provides a 7 night, 8 day stay at any one of 3500 locations worldwide. The company providing the vouchers is offering this program because they have excess properties they need to rent, and rather then let them sit, they offer the properties for small redemption fees. Some are last minute properties that are available, some are specific travel promotions and others are properties that are available throughout the year that they keep in their inventories.
The company prints out the voucher, pays the very small initial redemption fee and gives the voucher to their employees. The company can choose just to give the voucher without redeeming the initial voucher fee as well and their employees will still save hundreds to thousands of dollars on their next vacations.
Are these vacations just in the United States? No, these are worldwide vacations to some of the most popular vacation spots and can thus be given away to employees in international locations.
What is the process to redeem the voucher? When the company prints out a voucher there is a website address on the voucher. Whomever receives the voucher has about a month to actually register to redeem the first voucher. The cost to redeem is typically $15-$50 depending on the trips your employees choose. Once the first voucher has been redeemeded, another confirmation voucher will be sent in the mail. That voucher will need to be redeemed over the next year or two depending on the package chosen. Another website address will be listed and your employee will be directed to a website that will provide them with the details on the trip they or you have chosen. With flexibility, $1,000 or more can be saved on many of these vacations with the 7 night, 8 day vouchers.
When you or your employee decides to travel, you visit the website provided, choose a property you want to travel to, make the request through the website, they confirm and if available, you pay the room taxes or airport taxes or whatever other charges are outlined at that time. On a $2,000 vacation package your redemption value will average under $400. In essense, you are getting a $2,000 vacation for $400 or less.
The corporate gifting department can give these vouchers away as is, or, as many do, they actually pay the small activation fee and then give the activated voucher to their employees. If the corporate gift giver wants to give an excellent bonus to an employee, they can go as far as redeeming the first voucher and then telling the employee that they can go into the website and choose their next vacation. The employer then pays the $400 (on average) or less redemption fee and the employee then has a free vacation.
The vouchers in the back office include buy one get one free airfare, cruises, all inclusive trips, Mexico, worldwide trips, book a week at one of the well known travel destinations and get free airfare for two, Hawaii, the Bahamas and more.
Whether a corporation has thousands of employees or a company has just a few, the gift of travel is truly a unique gift to offer to their employees worldwide.
No need for a gold watch or a company engraved coffee mug when you can be snow skiing in the Alps or sitting on a beach somewhere in the world, sipping your favorite drink and listening to the waves crash around you knowing you paid pennies on the dollar for a fabulous vacation for yourself or one of your own employees. You can get additional information by visiting the resource box below.
You can get more information on this unique program by visiting http://www.lovethetravelbug.com You will be prompted to sign in and register to get additional information. You also can sign up as a free member so you can actually be taken into the back office and see the travel vouchers you will be able to download on an unlimited basis to give away as corporate gifts. When you sign up as a free member, you will also be sent a free travel voucher as a sample which you can actually use. You will find this to be an excellent corporate gift, business promotion tool.