Corporate Travel
Business travel planned like a game day schedule
Conventions, sales events, retreats and incentive trips, laid out hour by hour by Keith Wilson and kept within your budget.
Conventions, sales events, retreats, incentive trips, meetings and seminars
At KBW Sports and Travel we cater to Corporate Travels that include Conventions, Sales Events, Retreats, Incentive Trips, Meetings and Seminars. Each of those is a different kind of trip, and Keith treats them that way instead of pouring them all into one template.
A convention is about getting people to the right place on the right day, with the least friction. A sales event is about getting a team together and sending everyone home sharper. A retreat needs room to think and room to breathe. An incentive trip is a reward, so it has to feel like one. Start by telling Keith which of those you are planning and what the trip is supposed to accomplish.
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The itinerary as a schedule
Keith spent thirty seasons as a head varsity basketball coach, and a business trip looks a lot like game day: arrivals, a start time, a program, a break, a second session, dinner, departures. Every hour has an owner and a backup. He lays the trip out as a schedule you can hand to the team, so nobody is guessing where to be at nine in the morning.
Travel for a company also means more than one traveler on more than one flight. Keith keeps the group's arrival windows, ground transportation and room blocks lined up so the first session starts with everyone in the room.
After-trip follow-through
The trip does not end when the plane lands. Keith stays on the line for the details that surface afterward: a changed booking, a question about what was arranged, a plan for next year's event. If the retreat worked, he already knows what to repeat. If something did not, he wants to hear it.
He works out of Columbus, Ohio, and clients travel worldwide. Call Keith at 214 418 4232 with the kind of event, the size of the team and the budget you are working with, and he will build the trip to fit it.
Keith Wilson, travel agent with Evolution Travel, Columbus, Ohio.
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What to tell Keith when you call
- The kind of event: convention, sales event, retreat, incentive trip, meeting or seminar.
- How many people are traveling and where they are starting from.
- The window of dates you can work with, and which days are fixed.
- The budget for the trip as a whole, and whether there is a per-person ceiling.
- Whether you need meeting space, shared meals or free time built into the days.
- Who on your side approves the plan and who keeps the final headcount.
Reach Keith Wilson in Columbus, Ohio, at 214 418 4232.
The first call
Give him the brief, he builds the schedule
You do not need a finished plan to pick up the phone. A rough team size, a purpose for the trip and a budget are enough for Keith to start sketching the days.