Gifting Trend Alert: Travel Themed Custom Corporate Gifts

Corporate gifting has evolved far beyond generic branded pens and coffee mugs. Businesses want to make an impact with their gifting choices, whether for employees or clients, focusing on creating personalized and memorable experiences. And at Marigold & Grey, we're here for it! 

One of the most exciting trends in corporate gifting today is travel-themed gifts, especially for business events and incentive trips. When we have the opportunity to work with our corporate clients to custom design gift sets for business events and incentive trips, we love having the chance to highlight a location and truly create an immersive experience with useful gift items.

Whether you are hosting an executive retreat, want to welcome your top sales earners to an incentive trip getaway, or are planning a networking conference, welcoming attendees with a thoughtful gift is a sure way to leave a lasting impression.

If your team members or customers are traveling to a new destination for a special event, crafting a location-based gift is a great way to introduce them to their destination while also providing useful items to help them prepare for their trip or be sure they have all the essentials upon their arrival.

Let’s take a look at a few of our favorite travel-themed business gift design ideas.

Packing Cubes Gift Set for Annual Sales Conference

Gifts that are practical and functional will always be appreciated and will keep your business top of mind as recipients use these items over and over again long after their trip is over. A set of packing cubes and a travel toiletries set would be ideal items to send as a pre-trip gift or a useful gift to send your guests home.

An easy return trip was the plan with the custom designed travel themed gifts we designed for Atlas Holdings. As an appreciation gift for staff members attending their annual sales conference, the Atlas team was gifted useful travel items to make the trip home just a bit easier.

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Travel Inspired Duffle Bag Holiday Gifts

When you are a high end travel agency, your holiday gifts better be travel themed! Ourisman Travel wanted to gift their clients luxe holiday gifts that would be useful and keep their brand front of mind during travel anytime of year, not just during the holidays. Plus, their clients are well-traveled, of course, so their custom designed holiday gifts needed to be high end and unique. They couldn't just send the same travel accessories that their clients probably have multiples of already.

You already know we love a practical gift, and why not start with the gifting vessel itself?! We packed chic olive green Dagne Dover brand duffle bags full of everything their jet setting clients need to elevate their next trip, whether traveling for business or vacation, including Polarized sunglasses, travel cases, and more.

Let's unzip these luxury travel themed duffle gift bags sent to VIP clients at the holidays...

Pre-Trip Locale Based Gift Sets

A pre-trip gift is an ideal way to introduce your guests to a new destination while also making them feel extra appreciated. Including useful items such as luggage tags helps them prepare for their travels while local gift items help get them familiar with the trip location and excited for their travels while also serving as keepsake items to remember their trip.

Recipients of these custom designed pre-trip gifts were headed to Costa Rica so we included well known items like Costa Rican coffee, a locally made candle and guide book in a bright and colorful on-brand gift design.

Let's unbox and dig into the Costa Rica themed travel inspired gifts...

California Travel Themed Backpack Gifts

Oaktree Capital made sure their conference attendees were carry-on ready with these custom backpacks gift sets. For these travel themed gift bags, we focused on local California items as this was the host destination, along with useful items for anyone traveling.

Black neoprene backpacks were the perfect carry on item for this trip, packed full of travel wipes, a portable charger, an LAX baseball hat, and snacks.

Let's unzip these carry-on travel bag themed gifts designed for a corporate trip...

Tropical Themed Incentive Trip Gifts

For Diamond Club members headed to Grand Cayman on their annual incentive trip, we worked with Transact Campus to create tropical travel themed welcome gift baskets.

An underwater Polaroid camera to capture trip memories was included in each gift set along with locally sourced travel toiletries, a portable fan for hot beach days, and a branded windbreaker. These travel themed welcome gifts were the perfect blend of fun and practical!

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Travel Themed Farewell Gifts

While welcome gifts are always a great way to surprise team members or clients when they reach their destination, a farewell gift at the end of a trip can be a great way to show appreciation for folks taking time to travel.

Samsara said farewell to their President’s Club incentive trip guests with these luxe gift bags to make the trip home just a bit easier. Gender neutral camel colored Dagne Dover brand duffle bags held useful travel items to make the long flight home from Hawaii a bit more manageable. Useful items inside each gift bag included an Apple AirTag and leather case, a spa inspired toiletry kit, and a silk sleep mask.

Let's open up the luxury travel duffle gift bags that recipients could use to make the trip home...

If you are looking for something easy and quicker than a custom designed gift to gift your clients or VIP guests, we have ready-to-ship options available too. Here is one of our most popular travel themed gift sets that businesses like to send for an upcoming event or as an incentive trip welcome gift. 

With our Add-Your-Own Logo program, businesses can add their logo and branding to any of our ready-to-ship gift sets from our online shop, making it an easy and stress-free way to send branded corporate gifts. 

Ready-To-Ship Travel Gift: ’Well Traveled’

Perfect for frequent flyers and those new to travel, our signature ‘Well Traveled’ gift set has all the essentials to elevate any travel experience. This high end, gender neutral gift box would be the perfect addition to a trip invitation to help attendees prepare for their travels.

A leather luggage tag and neoprene toiletry bag ensures they are carry-on ready for wherever their travels may take them. Also included in this luxe gift set is a wireless linen charger, travel hand sanitizer and a set of S’well travel bottles.

Let's unbox this ready-to-ship travel inspired gift set...

Incorporating travel-themed gifts into your corporate event or incentive trip is an innovative way to create meaningful, lasting impressions. Not only do these gifts feel personal and luxurious, but they also evoke a sense of adventure and exploration - qualities that can make your recipients feel truly valued.

Let our team of gifting experts help you create unforgettable moments with custom travel-themed gifts that will keep your brand top-of-mind long after the event or trip is over.

Happy travel gifting!

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