Sometimes business etiquette can be downright bizarre. Small things could make or break a business relationship, like how you greet someone to how you accept their business card. Here are seven unusual business customs from around the world. Karaoke in South Korea How’s your singing voice? In South Korean, if your business hosts take...
Our Favourite Thompsons Travel Moments from 2018
The end of the year is upon us! As we tie up loose ends and wrap up our projects (while wrapping gifts for our loved ones), we take a look back at the last 12 months. Join us in celebrating our favourite moments and milestones in 2018… Thompsons Travel turns 40! In February, we...
Travel Tech Trends for 2019
Today’s travel is becoming phenomenally more demanding than it used to be. There is a higher expectation for speed, authenticity, personalisation, seamlessness and security. Innovative technology has reshaped the way we work, live and behave, and will continue to change the way we travel. Here are a few trends we’re looking forward to in...
Why Face-to-Face Meetings are Essential in the Digital Age
In today’s technologically-driven business world, speed is everything. To keep things moving as fast as possible, in-person meetings are taking the backseat in favour of the latest high-tech solutions. Arguably, this is because face-to-face meetings are considered time-consuming and expensive (especially if your business travellers need to go abroad). Virtual communication has certainly streamlined...
Incentive Budgeting: 3 Ways to Save
Want to know how to stretch your corporate travel incentive budget? Here are tips from Thompsons Travel. Want to stretch your travel incentive budget? Consider these tips from our experts: 1. Location, location, location When you take airfare, hotel accommodation, food, entertainment and special activities into account, your choice of destination will dramatically affect...
How to Maximise the Benefits of your Corporate Incentive
Incentive travel is a motivational tool which you can leverage to enhance productivity or achieve business objectives. Participants earn the reward (a trip) based on a specific level of achievement determined by management. To maximise the benefit of your incentive travel programme, every successful incentive travel experience begins with careful planning. Here’s how we...
Go Green with Thompsons Travel
Going green is more important today than ever before. As individuals, we have a responsibility to act. As corporates, it’s even more important that we take up the green charge and lead by example. Here’s how we’re going green – and how you can, too: #CarbonEmissions Are you monitoring the effect your business travel...
Spring Clean Your Business Travel Processes
It’s the season of new beginnings! With winter behind you, now is the time to get your house in order and re-assess, re-evaluate and refine your business travel processes. From reviewing whether your travellers have the tools and information they need to make smart buying decisions to reexamining and communicating your travel policy, there’s...
Mary Shilleto, Mentor
This Woman’s Month, we’re shining the light on the trailblazing women in business who cleared the way for others to carve their own paths. At Thompsons Travel, that trailblazing pioneer is our CEO, Mary Shilleto. When Mary started out in the tourism industry 45 years ago, there were fewer airlines and routes, and everything...
Celebrating Women’s Month with Thompsons Travel
On 9 August 1956, twenty thousand women marched to Pretoria to protest against the Urban Areas Act. Proof that women in South Africa will always stand together and support each other, the 9th of August has been celebrated as a public holiday since. With the whole month of August recognised as Women’s Month, we...