As a business owner, you're always looking for new and creative ways to motivate your employees. And there's no better way to incentivize them than by offering them a trip to remember. Incentive travel has become a popular way to motivate employees, and it's no surprise why. Everyone loves to travel, and the idea...
Why Hire a Travel Management Partner
Are you spending hours looking for flights and booking accommodation for your company’s business travellers? Does organising transport or managing travel claims leave you feeling frustrated? If the stress of business travel planning is getting in the way of the regular demands of your job, you need a travel management partner. Whether it is...
Make the Middle East your next incentive destination
Ancient landmarks merged with modern cities. Desert landscapes contrasted against azure seas. Intoxicating cuisine and possibly the world’s best coffee… the Middle East is trending as one of the most desirable regions for incentive travel – this according to Charlotte Gwilliam, our recently appointed Thompsons Meetings and Incentives Manager. Stretching from the Black Sea to the Arabian Sea; from...
Get to Know Our New TMI Manager, Charlotte Gwilliam
Our dedicated Thompsons Meetings and Incentives (TMI) team has a new captain at the helm, and she plans to take our MICE division to new heights! We caught up with Charlotte Gwilliam, our recently appointed TMI Manager for a quick get-to-know-you Q&A. Tell us a little bit about yourself I grew up on a farm and can...
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...
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...
How Gen Z is Reshaping Business Travel
Generation Z is very different from their forebears, with their values and expectations shaped by having grown up during the recession, difficult political climates, and the rapid evolution of technology. Gen Z consumer behaviour and spending patterns are reshaping the business travel landscape. Within fifteen years, Gen Zs will be the decision makers of...
5 Things to Look for in a Travel Management Partner
A travel management partner will do the heavy lifting of business travel for your company; carefully track, monitor, and evaluate all of your business travel data, providing insights into how and where to reduce costs. Additionally, you will benefit from industry-proven advice and expertise to get the best value for money within your company’s...