WORLD Leisure Holidays
has renewed its focus on
groups and MICE bookings,
moving this function away from
its reservations department and
creating a separate team consisting
of four consultants headed by new
group sales manager, Martine
Sanderson.
Martine headed up the groups
department for Club Med for four
and a half years. Prior to that she
ran the incentives division for
Creative Incentives for two years and
also managed the greater northern
Johannesburg region as an account
manager for Sun Air.
While sales director, Brenda
Mitchell, confirmed that World
Leisure’s current FIT department
remained exclusively focused on its
Indian Ocean island and Maldives
products, she advised that the group
department was able to entertain
agent requests to other destinations
around the world as well.
The new department is also
strongly focused on re-energising
awareness of World Leisure golfing
packages.
“We are one of the only tour
operators that include free golf with
all our packages. A round of golf is
about R3 500 in Mauritius at the
moment. This inclusion is always
a win with corporates, as they feel
that a lot of business is still done
on the golf course,” said Martine
adding that they had noted a recent
increase in smaller groups arranging
to take their top 10 clients away to
Mauritius for short golfing trips.
Brenda also advised that weddings
and honeymoons were other focal
points, while Martine added that
the groups department was able
to assist agents with corporate
incentives and was involved with a
number of Mauritian sporting and
cultural events.
