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Using travel incentives can produce great results, but there is always risk associated with gain. Travel as an incentive is a powerful tool to motivate, but it can also deflate the egos of individual workers and/or the morale of workers, partners, clients, and/or suppliers that are involved if done improperly. Here are some tips for insuring that incentive travel is done properly:

• If incentive travel is being done as part of a contest, make the rules crystal clear. Think about all the probable outcomes and ensure that those rules are sufficient to handle the possibilities.
• It helps to have secondary prizes, even when they are things like the shaded parking spot near the side entrance, or even a position on the cover of the company’s monthly newsletter. Some of the best perks are free.
• Remember that incentive travel does not have to be all fun and games. Many companies have their top talent meet with partners for rounds of golf or other social functions and are able to write off part of the expenses related to the travel.
• Inspiration is the key to any sort of competition but that fact has been lost on many managers. Remember that the goal of incentive travel is multi-fold, and it is ultimately what a company makes of it.