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Rovos Rail and Hayward’s Grand Safari Company – Luxury Tented Camp – deliver an unforgettable incentive An insurance company challenged Uwin Iwin to develop and facilitate a one-of-a-kind local travel incentive that would be worthy of rewarding their top sales staff after two years of cancelling international travel incentive programmes, due to the global travel restrictions enforced due to Covid-19, Uwin Iwin, partnered with Walthers as the local DMC to meet the challenge of creating an unforgettable incentive. By Leslee Beck – Incentive Management Company, Uwin Iwin.
Client An insurance company. Objective To provide the client with a local incentive trip that matched the standards of all previous international incentive trips. Due to the global travel restrictions enforced because of Covid-19, the client requested that Uwin Iwin develop and facilitate a one-of-a-kind local travel incentive that would be worthy of rewarding their top sales staff after two years of cancelling international travel incentive programmes. Uwin Iwin (together with Walthers as the local DMC), were challenged to find and produce various concepts that would work within the Covid restrictions, that would maintain safety protocols and in no way compromise the standard and quality that the client and their achievers were accustomed to.
Incentive type Travel Incentive within the financial sector for one of South Africa’s top financial institutions. The incentive campaign is subject to the achievement of specific production norms; and the competition runs over a 12-month cycle. Staff of various levels in the organisation attend — from the chief executive officer to level 1 consultants. Duration The incentive trip itself was from a Sunday to a Sunday, eight days in total. We divided the entire group into three smaller groups, travelling back-to-back and minimising the numbers per group, to be aligned with Covid-19 protocols. Due to the previous international cancellations, we only had four months to produce an alternative solution and commence with the planning of this incentive trip.
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Number of participants Of the 186 participants who qualified and received special invitations, 141 attended this event. Solution To combine two top South African legendary hospitality outfits, Rovos Rail and Hayward’s Grand Safari Company for a bespoke incentive trip that has never been achieved before. This incredible journey would commence aboard the world’s most luxurious train and guests would be transported through the hinterland of southern Africa towards an unknown grand safari tented camp in the heart of iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal. This offered a unique safari experience in that it combined travel from Nelspruit, through Swaziland into northern KZN, with its inland estuaries and lakes, as well as a marine reserve along the Indian Ocean and arriving in the www.businesseventsafrica.com
