Team
building tourism has become more favored in Vietnam, since businesses want to
bolster their staff’s confidence, encourage old officers and help new comers
integrated quickly into the new environment.
The clients who book team building tours not
only want to unite their teams through trips, but also want to check the
competence of personnel, and drive the teams to the public interests. However,
not many travel firms follow this kind of tourism – team building, because the
requirements on the content and the way of organizing team building tours have
become higher.
Vu Nhu Trang, Personnel Director of Kim Tin
Company, said that in the last three years, the company does not organize
normal tours, but chooses a new type of tourism – team building. She said that
there is always a new message for every trip. In 2011, for example, a team
building tour was organized with the message “Living with the sense of
responsibility.”
In 2011, Kim Tin ordered a travel firm to
organize an outdoors discovery program for its staff from HCM City to Safari
Dambri and then to Da Lat. During the trip, different situations were created
which forced every person to try to overcome difficulties and show their
responsibility to the success of his team.
The travelers were asked to regroup as quickly
as possible, look for meals themselves and spend with the fixed sums of money
delivered to them by the organization board. All these were the big challenges
which the staff had to overcome and were not allowed to give up the games and
they must reach their destination.
“We sometimes did not know whether to laugh
and cry. We also argued. However, after that, we joined forces to overcome
difficulties and lead an elephant to the hill,” Trang said.
“After experiencing the challenges, we have
become more appreciated the comradeship and better understood each other,” she
said, adding that Kim Tin would still choose a team building tour this year.
Bui Tien Dat, Personnel Director of Caravelle
Hotel, said he was very satisfactory with the team building “change to lead”
tour to Nha Trang, designed for key persons. The message “Change to lead” was
chosen because in 2012, Caravelle will be upgraded into one of the leading
hotels in HCM City.
Therefore, the hotel wants its leadership to
be changed and upgraded to get adapted to the new ranking.
Dat said that every team of travelers was
delivered 50 lottery tickets. Only if they could sell the tickets, could they
get money to buy food. After that, they had to come to see local residents to
borrow necessary tools to prepare the meals. The challenge really helped
upgrade the sales skill in the difficult period. One day, the travelers were
left on an isolated island, and they had to move to seek food. Eighteen people
experienced the hardship, including eight foreigners.
Another game that travelers joined was that
they had to survey five star hotels in Nha Trang to learn about the prices, the
way of doing business, the service quality of the hotels. The surveys were all
given marks. Dat said that the activities helped people well understand
themselves and realize that the solidarity could help settle many difficult
problems.
Truong Hoang Phuong, Marketing Director of
Vietmark, has noted that the more difficult is the economic situation, the
higher is the demand for team building tourism, because companies try to
bolster their staff’s confidence and encourage them to devote to the companies.
However, he also said that all businesses try
to cut budget in the economic difficulties. Therefore, organizers need to
renovate their products regularly and find out the reasonable destinations
which both allow saving money and implementing the messages the clients want.
In the past, team building simply meant
organizing the tours with outdoors games or the indoors meetings. However, the
requirements by clients have become higher. They want the games that can serve
as a “soft skill training course” and polish their image in the eyes of the
community.
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