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		<title>Corporate Incentive Travel: Giving Your Team a Sense of the Local Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Thornley-Brown, M.B.A.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether your destination is Toronto, Jamaica, Dubai, Oman, Japan, Singapore, or Malaysia, giving your team a sense of the local culture during your sales incentive trip is easier than you think and it doesn’t have to take a lot of time.

Even if you have to extend your sales incentive trip by half a day or a full day to make time to build a cultural excursion into your itinerary, it will be time well spent. You’ll broaden their horizons and provide your team with a truly memorable and meaningful experience of a lifetime that they would never be able to have back home.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=executiveoasis.wordpress.com&blog=4316032&post=763&subd=executiveoasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Incentive Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's really special about Toronto is that, due to its multi-cultural population, you can explore the world without leaving the city and its surrounding areas. There are many opportunities in and near Toronto to Toronto (GTA) based companies to reward your team locally and give them the essence of foreign travel without getting on a plane.
Due to the economy, there are bargains galore at local hotels, resorts, restaurants, and attractions. 

For companies in the USA, the Middle East and Asia who are considering Toronto as an incentive travel destination, there is no better time to book your trip. You'll stretch your budget due to an exchange rate that is in your favour.
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		<title>Singapore: The 1st &amp; Last Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Thornley-Brown, M.B.A.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales incentive trips can really broaden a team's horizons and expose them to market trends before they hit your country. This can help organizations scan the horizon, see what's coming next and design innovative campaigns and develop service bundles well ahead of the competition. 
This blog entry explore some of the ideas I picked up during my first and last trip to Singapore.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=executiveoasis.wordpress.com&blog=4316032&post=707&subd=executiveoasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rewarding Your Team Even During Tough Times</title>
		<link>http://executiveoasis.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/rewarding-and-entertaining-your-team-even-during-tough-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When companies are doing well, reward your team with unique luxury events and incentives. What do you do when funds are tight? Even when a company is facing a challenging year, it's important to reward top performers, build skills and boost morale. The key is to gear the spending to organizational performance. A little imagination can go a long way in substituting for mega-budgets.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=executiveoasis.wordpress.com&blog=4316032&post=697&subd=executiveoasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Canada Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Thornley-Brown, M.B.A.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the USA, incentive travel and meeting industry associations have started a "Keep America meeting campaign". Do we need something similar?

It is said that when America sneezes, Canada catches a cold. So what goes on South of the border does have an impact on us. Yet in Canada, despite the fact that hotels are receiving numerous cancellations from corporate clients, we are hardly hearing a whimper about this. 

So what's up? Are we that different from our American cousins? Are we just too low key, conservative and reluctant to "make waves" to do anything proactive? Do we need a "Keep Canada Meeting" campaign? If we do, why are we not taking steps to launch one? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=executiveoasis.wordpress.com&blog=4316032&post=693&subd=executiveoasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Incentive Travel Guidelines Welcome</title>
		<link>http://executiveoasis.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/incentive-travel-guidelines-welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Thornley-Brown, M.B.A.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global recession and the use of funds for expensive trips and luxury events by some of the recipients of TARP funding  has unleashed a series of events that has created a crisis in the incentive travel industry.  As discussed in our most recent blog entry, many organizations that are doing well are now hesitant to schedule incentives or retreats due to concerns about the optics during a recession and the potential for negative publicity. 

Leaders in the incentive travel industry have taken some steps in recent days to:
<ul>
	<li> provide guidelines about responsible spending for meetings, retreats and incentives</li>
	<li>highlight the benefits of incentive travel with  US Government officials in Washington</li>
</ul>


If we all work together, we can turn things around and avoid the lengthy downturn that occured in the industry after 9/11, the 2002 - 2003 recession and SARS  (in Toronto and Asia).
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		<title>Incentive Travel During a Recession: The Benefits</title>
		<link>http://executiveoasis.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/incentive-travel-during-a-recession-the-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever there is an economic meltdown, one of the first things that many companies cut is non-cash incentives such as incentive travel. This is short sighted. When times are tough and it's much more difficult for your team to make their numbers, it's even MORE important to have strong incentives to reward top performers. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=executiveoasis.wordpress.com&blog=4316032&post=630&subd=executiveoasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Survival Strategies in Turbulent Economic Times</title>
		<link>http://executiveoasis.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/corporate-survival-strategies-in-turbulent-economic-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Survival Strategies For Turbulent Economic Times
Survival: The Name of the New Economic Game 
People rarely have a neutral reaction to Survivor, the reality based TV show. Love it or hate it, with 51.7 million viewers for the final episode of its first season, it&#8217;s impossible to ignore it. Given our turbulent economic climate, Survivor is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=executiveoasis.wordpress.com&blog=4316032&post=619&subd=executiveoasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impact of Wall Street Meltdown on Incentive Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably too early to determine what impact the current meltdown on Wall Street will have on incentive travel. When the economic climate becomes uncertain, there is a tendency for many companies to cut back and become conservative in their spending.  A 2007 Incentive Magazine study has indicated U.S. companies typically spend about $50 billion  per year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=executiveoasis.wordpress.com&blog=4316032&post=610&subd=executiveoasis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Incentive Travel Tidbits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incentive Travel Tidbits
The Inside Scoop About Service Charges, Tips, and Commissions 
 
I recently had a couple of interesting conversations that reminded  me of some misconceptions that a lot of people have about commissions, service charges and tips.  This will be a short post just to clear a few of these up.
Hotel and Restaurant Service Charges
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