VR-travel around Ukraine

Do you miss #travelling, like we do?

Cool opportunity now to try #VR-travel at https://ukraine360.org/
Even simplest like google cardboard will work for this, but, of course, great if you have good Oculus, you would see #Ukraine like we see it in reality.
Ukraine is biggest country in Europe and even if you’ve been to our energetic #Kyiv or always charming #Lviv, most probably, you haven’t seen our green and recharging #Carpathian #mountains or gorgeous #medieval #Castles like Kamenets-Podilskiy or #Khotyn.
Worth to try now!

For #Ukrainian clients, we can arrange #corporate #VR-events by delivering VR-sets (and not only) to each participant personally (desinfected, of course) to #immerse into new type of corporate #events.
For our internation partners, you can offer same to your clients, i am sure, you also have enough suppliers in your country.

#Ukrainian #Travel #VRtravel #tourism #virtual #Kyiv #Lviv #Odessa #Carpathians #incentive #MICE #groups

Travel Agent’s Survival during #covid19. Ukrainian Edition.

Well… can imagine that you’ve tired of news about covid-19. We too.

But together with this, as all of us in MICE travel business, we appreciate exchange of ideas and solutions, how to survive for travel agencies during this corona-crisis.

Shortly about situation in Ukraine: we have less than 10 cases now, but preventively country is closed and all flights are stopped. We know that some countries implemented TAX HOLIDAYS FOR TRAVEL BUSINESS and you are lucky if you are from these countries. We are not, but we united and pushed to negotiate the same with our government. And succeded. You can do the same.

As all travel is suspended and all mass events (over 50 pax) were cancelled already last week (till yestreday), we offered to our local corporate clients to make SMALL SUSTAINABLE EVENTS OUTDOORS: to plant the trees and make other eco-activities. Some of clients agreed. Some of them are thinking to make it later. Anyway, sustainability is global trend (or was before covid-19) and lot of international corporate companies need to report about their global responsibility.  So if they don’t buy now, you can create relations for nearest future.
If you are interested in our sustainable events, you can look here: https://www.slideshare.net/Ukrainian_Incentives/your-next-sustainable-corporate-event

If to talk less globally, delivery of food increased 50% everywhere.
Can we DELIVER MICE-EXPERIENCE to our client’s homes of offices?
For example, to make and deliver WINE-TASTING to people’s home. It’s not a sommelier in a medical mask. It is a sommelier online-lessons together with nice box of small wine bottles, which are mentioned in the lessons, of course. Delivered together: box offline (if your country allows it) and  lessons online.

Sell GIFT CERTIFICATES  for partners services (hopefully, not only pharmacies, but  also for some MICE-experience).
Get money now and activate later. Valid 6 or 12 months after activation.
Also it is possible to offer discount in this way: pay 500 EUR now and get services for 600 EUR upon activation. Yes, you have to calculate, how to implement it. But also you do need some money now, don’t you?

Can we DELIVER TRAVEL? Probably, only VR now.
But we can use it as entertainment for our clients, sitting homes and as a teaser for their next incentive travel.
Here are VR about Ukraine: https://ukraine360.org/
Please, include us into your shared VR-playlist.
You can even send to your clients simplest VR-glasses, like google cardboard https://arvr.google.com/cardboard/  not to feel them lonely in quarantine.

DELIVER EXPERIENCE to client’s homes. We all used to provide real incentive experience to our clients.  But now we can do it only online.
You can create and sell some lessons about  experience of your country or some interesting destinations.
Or you can sell our online-products.
We are creating now mini-series of lessons about UKRAINIAN CULTURAL EXPERIENCE, which can be delivered home:
– special Petrykivskiy painting style (painting is perfect cure from stress)

Ukrainian cooking lessons (lot of people in quarantine have to cook at home. Why not to try somthing new now?)

Easter Eggs Pysanka Painting (Easter is coming anyway)

Please, answer this e-mail if you are interested in selling these Ukrainian lessons to your clients

Well…on one hand, we all in travel business desperately need to sell smth already now, but on other hand, lot of channels open resources for free now. But you can strengthen relations with clients by providing some helpful webinars or free online lessons.
For example, what are MICE-possibilities of  Ukraine for your future corporate travel 😉 here:
https://youtu.be/ha-rJ5qy528

And you? Do you have any ideas, which you implement in your country?
Let’s share and save travel business around the world!

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Virtual vs Live events

Most of latest trends and forecasts show vast growing popularity of virtual events. But despite virtual events have number of 100% benefits like low cost and unlimited number of participants, we still think that live travel is valued more as it gives people more inspiration and more motivation for new achievements.

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Seems, HR and marketers should use both virtual and live events for different goals, sometimes even together to multiply benefits. For example, great to have live translations from corporate conference with important content aimed for wide-spreading. Through translation lot of potential clients and customers may see your professional content and may want to be there for next live conference.

But as for encouraging employees and partners, live incentive trips will definitely beat any type of virtual, what do you think? Incentive travel justifies its incentive goals and gives good ROI at the end. By-the-way, Ukraine is perfect destination for live event like corporate conference and incentive trip.

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Here we had a look on benefits of both virtual and live events through famous in psychology wheel of life. We hope, you will also find interesting our look at this sphere: http://www.slideshare.net/Ukrainian_Incentives/virtual-vs-live-events-through-wheel-of-life

 

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and what do you think about future of live events? Write in comments!

How to encourage event participants to share more photos?

Photo-tours in Ukraine

Photo-tours during your event in Ukraine

How to encourage people to share lot of pictures from your event in social media?

One of the ideas is to Make a photo-tour for your participants with professional photographer(s) in two formats:

cropped-UI_kvadrat-1.pngphotoshooting: make lot of cool pictures in few best locations, open people’s beauty
People  love to get cool professional photos, where they look fantastic in amazing place.
This is especially actual for women groups 😉

cropped-UI_kvadrat-1.pngphotolessons: learn people to make cool pictures themselves, open professional secrets
People like to get knew knowledge, master-classes (when professional photographer teaches, how to make great pictures yourself) are always have a success.


And at the end you can present them branded photobook with bright memories

Photo-tours in Ukraine

Ukraine is so beautiful and different!
So many cool locations for bright photoshooting here:

cropped-UI_kvadrat-1.png cities with historical buildings and cafes, famous golden Orthodox roofs, parks and gardens
cropped-UI_kvadrat-1.png natural landscapes with mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, dunes and sea
cropped-UI_kvadrat-1.png romantic or adventure, business-style or casual – lot of possibilities

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What if to make photo-tour instead of standard sightseeing or even sunrise for some early birds? Some participants may suffer from jetleg and will wake up very early – turn this into positive experience – sunrise photo-tour, but make it closer to hotel for attendees convenience.

Come to Ukraine!

Come to Ukraine
Take great pictures, share them and

boost your brand awareness!

Photo-tours in Ukraine