In the face of a persistent pandemic that still makes businesses suspicious, incentive travel should be considered The organizers may not be packing their bags yet. But it’s not too early to lay the foundation, and a new Incentive Travel Toolkit just released by the Incentive Research Foundation is aimed at planners working to create a program or re-create their incentive Spend traveling.

Highlights of this soup-to-nut package with resources contains:
• A worksheet created in Word for creating incentive programs to be used as a working document and articles on effective design

• an RFP template for incentive trips
• A previously published 32-page report measuring return on investments for incentive trips
• An eight slide PowerPoint presentation setting out the business case for travel incentives, including business, economic, and individual benefits, and why travel is a better motivator than cash
• A whitepaper accompanies the business case PowerPoint, in which the effects of incentive trips are deepened
• a financial budget template in Excel
• A detailed document on how to communicate incentive events, including a schedule of when various notices should be published and what they should cover
• an overview of operational best practices

“This was supposed to be released earlier this year, but in the end we postponed the release until now as more companies are at least considering incentive travel,” said Andy Schwarz, Vice President, Content & Communities of the IRF.
Schwarz recognizes the efforts of dedicated volunteers behind the new toolkit, including Jim Adams, Performance Strategies; Min Choi, Germania Insurance; Krzysztof Celuch, Celuch Consulting; Jerry Klein, Animate Growth Partner; Rick Low, Topnet, Inc .; Mike May, Brightspot Incentives & Events; Mike McWilliams, Next Level Achievement; Lisa Meller, Meller Performance Events Group; and Michele Sarkisian, Avenger Capital.

All elements of the Incentive Travel Toolkit are free and available on the Incentive Research Foundation website.