Reward Your Employees With Travel Incentives
By Sheryl Strasser, Sat Dec 10th

Motivating employees, especially highly competitive employeeslike inside and outside salespersons and telemarketers, can be achallenge. Sure, everyone likes cash, but what if you couldoffer a incentive that was worth more than cash? That's whattravel incentives are all about.

What do you think would generate more excitement among youremployees; offering $50 to the person who sets the mostappointments in one day, or offering a 3 day and 2 nights hotelstay in Hawaii including airfare? I'll bet that you didn't haveto think about that for too long. The Hawaii trip wins handsdown.

I'll also bet that you're thinking "sure, I would love to giveaway a travel incentive deal like that, but how can I affordit?" Prepare to be shocked. You see, travel incentive couponssell for pennies on the dollar. The key to success in offeringtravel incentives is their perceived value, not their actualcost to you. The truth is, most travel incentive coupons costunder $10 each. That means that instead of giving away $50 inreal money, you're spending less than $10 and giving awaysomething that's worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars!

Travel incentives are coupons good for real travel to desirabledestinations. There are no gimmicks. The travel industryauthorizes distribution of these coupons through approvedbrokers. Depending upon the offer, these certificates can beredeemed for air travel, cruises, hotel stays, and lots of othertravel opportunities.

Hotel and airline operators know that they will rarely be bookedto 100% of their capacity. Rather than have empty seats orrooms, they offer free travel deals. They know that thevacationer is going to spend more money on food, sightseeing,and other products and services during their stay, so the freetravel offer

isn't a dead loss. In addition, airline and hotelmanagement is counting on the fact that the guest will have sucha good time that they will come back some other time and payfull fare.

This means that travel incentives are a triple win. The airlineswin, the hotels win, and you win by offering a productivityincentive with a perceived value many times greater than theactual cost. You'll be a hero with your employees andproductivity will soar.

Where to buy travel incentives

You should only buy your travel incentives from an authorizedtravel incentives broker. That way you are assured of receivinggenuine certificates that are good on major airlines and atquality hotels. There are a lot of inferior travel offers outthere, and you don't want to disappoint your employee by sendingthem to a second-rate hotel on an unknown airline.

One of the other advantages of dealing with authorized brokersis that they are able to offer you the ability to combinedifferent travel incentive coupons to create even betterpackages. For example, you can combine a 3 day, 2 night, 3-starhotel package with a $500 spending certificate in some cities.

Another popular combination is to create a getaway package thatincludes dream vacations like a 4 or 5-star hotel package that'scombined with a free round-trip airfare travel coupon. Itdoesn't get any better than that!

Stop offering boring bonuses and give your best performingemployees the travel vacation of their dreams. Ordering travelincentive coupons is easy, inexpensive, and can be done 100%on-line.

About the author:Sheryl Strasser is a 15 year small business owner and knows howto motivate employees. She has developed "10 Ways to MotivateEmployees Guide" to help small businesses find unique ways tomotivate employees. To learn more about this simple program andsign up for free mini ecourse, go towww.travelvacationvouchers.com