Attracting and keeping an elite workforce requires elite incentives that captivate, motivate, applaud and reward your employees, while far exceeding their expectations.
Research by the Incentive Research Foundation makes these expectations abundantly clear. Employees want exclusive, luxury travel to new, memorable and authentic destinations.
Such exclusive experiences may seem elusive—but in Canada, you can find the unique mix of breathtaking incentives and bespoke luxury you need to blow your top performers away.
Credit: Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge and Jeremy Koreski
At this remote outpost of Vancouver Island, your top performers will step off a floatplane, onto a horse-drawn wagon and into waterfront, forest and hillside luxury.
Waking in luxuriously appointed white canvas tents, your winners are immersed in pristine wilderness, offering glimpses of whales, porpoises, sea otters, black bears, owls, and herons.
Unforgettable adventures await, including canyoning from a glacier-fed waterfall to magical hidden waterholes and a heli tour combining canapés, drinks and awesome mountain vistas.
In downtime, top performers might take a glacial plunge into the clear Bedwell River or retreat to the Healing Grounds Spa along the calming ocean shore.
Returning to the lodge at the end of a memorable day, your world-class team will dine on exquisitely designed cuisine made from premium sustainable, local and foraged ingredients.
After an exclusive stay in this precious wilderness, your elite performers will be transformed by Clayoquot—a deeply authentic experience, taking home memories that will last a lifetime.
Credit: Destination BC/Ted Hessler
This intimate eco-wilderness lodge is nestled among the fjords of British Columbia’s rugged coast, in the remote Broughton Archipelago, accessible only by seaplane or helicopter.
Your top performers will find themselves surrounded by the ancient cedars of the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforests.
Memorable moments—from sunrise yoga and coastal kayaking to soaking in the waterfall’s hot tub and connecting around a blazing campfire—will reward and refresh your elite employees.
Your incentive winners will be awed by mountaintop picnics in pristine wilderness, magnificent whale sightings, and meetings with grizzly and black bears fishing for salmon.
The resort’s sophisticated coastal cuisine will delight your team’s tastebuds, bursting with the best, local wild ingredients that evolve with the seasons.
Nimmo Bay offers your elite employees the time and space for flowing creativity, fresh perspectives and forward thinking—and will leave them reinvigorated by raw wilderness.
If your top performers prefer more metropolitan exclusivity, this architectural and historic landmark hotel has offered the height of luxury and European flair in Québec City since 1893.
Arriving at this award-winning location atop Cap Diamant, your team will enjoy outstanding views of the St. Lawrence River and the walled Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Inspired by a Renaissance-era French château, beautifully furnished guest rooms blend the hotel’s distinguished heritage with contemporary style, placing your team in the lap of luxury.
At mealtimes, the hotel’s myriad of acclaimed and historic restaurants delights with unparallelled fine-dining destinations inspired by French cuisine and serving the finest of wines.
Of course, beyond the Fairmont’s towers and turrets lies the romance of Québec City— the heart of French-Canadian culture—with charm your incentive winners will adore.
Wandering the centuries-old city walls, boutique shopping on cobblestone streets, or sampling world class cuisine, art and music, elite employees will leave with pure joie de vivre.
This ultra-luxe, innovative inn perched on tiny Fogo Island, the last remaining outport of Newfoundland, offers your top performers a once-in-a-lifetime reward at the edge of the world.
Incentive winners will be soothed by the sounds of the Atlantic in one of the inn’s 29 luxurious rooms, featuring traditional outport design and Fogo-crafted furnishings.
Awakening to gobsmacking ocean views through floor-to-ceiling windows, your team can dive into the island’s ecosystem and take a journey through its 420-million-year-old history on breathtaking hikes with a geologist-in-residence.
The thrill of sighting caribou, furry seals, colourful puffins and other seabirds, and 22 species of whales, including majestic humpbacks will prove a reward beyond measure.
Your incentive winners could roam the hills, bogs and marshes to forage berries or gather wood for a traditional boil-up over an open fire, a feast of roasted salt fish, berry tarts and strong tea.
Oceanside at the inn, they will savour a more refined expression of this special place, with sophisticated dishes created from locally foraged plants and seafood from local waters.
On Fogo Island, your top performers will find their blank canvas—an opportunity for clarity, contemplation, dreams and breakthroughs – and be utterly transformed in the process.
Looking to learn more about luxury incentives in Canada? Visit the Destination Canada website or get in touch with the team directly through Jennifer Attersall, Acting Senior Director, Business Events, Destination Canada at attersall.jennifer@destinationcanada.com or +1 403-923-5972.