Corporate team toasting with medals after an incentive activity on the beach

MICE · Incentives

An incentive trip shouldn’t end in the photo

Your team earned it. We design the reward so they come back more united, more motivated and with a story they’ll keep telling — not just tanned.

Celebrate · connect · grow · groups of 5 to 130

Registered tour operator · RNT 74577

In short

A corporate incentive trip is a trip a company gives its team, clients or partners as recognition for reaching goals. Holidays in Colombia (RNT 74577) designs and operates them for groups of 5 to 130 people: nautical team building (raft building, regatta, Catamaran Island, Bike Builders), purpose-driven experiences (Activation of Meaning, El Crisol, Trip with Purpose), leadership programmes, gastronomy, live music and the full logistics of the trip, in Cartagena, Barranquilla, Medellín, the Coffee Region, Bogotá and Cali.

We’ve all seen that photo

The whole team by the sea, tanned and smiling, in the event T-shirt. Proof that the goal was met. And then Monday comes: the same meetings, the same tensions, the same conversations nobody dares to have.

Celebrating matters: an achievement that is not recognised fades from the memory of those who made it possible. But a trip is one of the few times a company has its people together, rested and with their guard down. We design it so that moment leaves a mark.

“An incentive trip is one of the few times a company has its people together, rested and with their guard down. It is too valuable to use only for the photo.”

By Yiseth Caicedo · ALKIMISTIKA, our facilitation team
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    Small leadership teams and board retreats

  • up to130guests

    On a floating island of catamarans in Cartagena Bay

  • up to200guests

    In rum or coffee tastings and live-cooking experiences

  • 4 to16hours

    Of staged team programmes, with an action plan

Which incentive does your company need?

Each type of incentive has a different goal. We start there.

Team cheering at the finish line

Sales incentives

For the teams that beat the target. A trip that rewards the result and recognises how it was achieved, with a peak moment designed to be remembered.

  • Recognition ceremony at sea
  • Competitive team building
  • Gala night with live music
Sailboat deck with Cartagena’s skyline

Channel & partner incentives

For distributors, dealers and key clients. Experiences that link your brand to an unforgettable moment and strengthen the relationship.

  • Corporate regatta
  • Rum tastings with a sommelier
  • Your brand on every detail
Hands tying ropes to build a raft

Team integration

For areas that need to connect: merged teams, new leaders, groups that grew fast. Collaborative challenges with a guided conversation afterwards.

  • El Crisol by stages
  • Raft building
  • Beach Games
Traditional musicians playing

Year-end & anniversaries

To close a cycle with gratitude and open the next one with energy. Celebration with meaning, music and a shared commitment.

  • Activation of Meaning
  • Catamaran Island
  • El Rocha or Capital Kandela on stage

This is how a team returns

50 seconds of a team-building day in the Caribbean: building, rowing in the same direction and celebrating shared goals.

Team building and experiences by the sea

Nine experiences from our MICE portfolio, on board and on the beach, with hosting, catering, audiovisual crew, your brand on every detail and the logistics included. They can be combined in the same day.

Team paddling a raft they built

01 · Raft building

Build, row, win together

Teams build a raft with the materials provided and then race from the shore to a designated buoy. Optional treasure hunt. Nobody wins alone: it takes planning, roles and trust.

Group
From 8 people
Duration
1–2 hours
See what’s included →
Sailboats racing in a corporate regatta

02 · Corporate regatta

Dynamic, original, sophisticated

A sailing race where participants become the crew, guided by an expert captain and sailor. It builds collaborative spirit and links your brand to a memorable experience.

Group
From 8 people
Team racing on children’s bikes they assembled

03 · Bike Builders

Team building with social impact

Back to childhood fun: teams assemble children’s bikes and race them on a track. Then the bikes are donated to the community or foundation you choose. Indoors or outdoors.

Group
From 8 people
Duration
2–3 hours
See what’s included →
Sailboats at sunset in Cartagena Bay

04 · Corporate sunset

The sea as your venue

Closing ceremonies, welcome cocktails and corporate dinners with the sophistication only the sea offers: live music, catering, drinks and the view of Cartagena.

Ideal for
Welcome and farewell nights
Aerial view of moored catamarans forming a floating island

05 · Catamaran Island

A floating island just for your group

An artificial island made of our moored boats, so the flow and interaction between guests is unique. Four boats, each with its own magic and personality.

Capacity
Up to 130 people
Paella cooked on board while sailing

06 · Live cooking

Master cooks on board

Expert cooks on board, with delicate decoration and distinguished service while sailing Cartagena Bay.

Capacity
Up to 100 people
See what’s included →
Colombian rum bottles ready for a tasting

07 · Rum tastings

Sophisticated, fun and cultural

Developed with local companies: sail while your senses explore different flavours, guided by an expert, bilingual sommelier.

Guide
Bilingual sommelier
Colourful cocktails made in a mixology challenge

08 · Cocktail Masters

Creativity under pressure

With different ingredients and a quick mixology class, each team creates a unique cocktail that competes for the best flavour, presentation and originality.

Group
From 9 people, three teams
See what’s included →
Teams in a tug of war on the beach at sunset

09 · Beach Games

Pure energy on the sand

Customised games and competitions: paddling stations, volleyball, sandcastle contests, relays and other dynamic activities.

Group
From 2 teams

Experiences with purpose for your incentive trip

The trip celebrates the achievement. The experience brings the team back closer.

Facilitator welcoming a corporate group on the beach

Activation of Meaning

A moment that gives meaning to the whole trip

A participatory recognition and connection experience to open or close the trip. Everyone feels their contribution was seen, and the group leaves with a commitment they all built.

Duration
90–120 minutes
Ideal for
Large groups, conventions, year-end
Team members tying ropes to build a raft

El Crisol

Where people fuse and the team transforms

Collaborative challenges inside a story designed for your group, with a guided conversation about how they really work together. They have fun, compete and discover things that later show at the office.

Duration
4 stages · 4 to 16 hours
Ideal for
Sales, admin and leadership teams
Drawing that reads “we lead by example” made during a team activity

Trip with Purpose

The incentive that doesn’t end when the trip ends

Three moments: preparation before travelling, an experience at the destination and a closing session to bring it all back to daily work. It can include an emotional-intelligence diagnosis of the team.

Format
Before, during and after
You take home
Learnings and a follow-up plan
Team jumping with joy on the beach

What memory keeps

We don’t remember an experience as an average of everything that happened, but by its most intense moment and how it ended — the peak-end rule described by Daniel Kahneman. And emotion is what fixes the memory: what moves us, surprises us or makes us feel part of something stays.

That is why the impact of a trip doesn’t depend on the hotel or the number of activities. It depends on someone designing, on purpose, the peak moment and how the story ends.

El Crisol · how far does your team want to go?

Each stage includes the previous ones. Your company chooses the depth.

  1. 1

    Catalizador

    4 hours

    Connection ignites: collaborative challenges and team agreements.

  2. 2

    Fusión

    8 hours · 1 day

    Conversations about roles, trust and how responsibilities are shared.

  3. 3

    Transmutación

    12 hours · 1.5 days

    A team diagnosis and a concrete action plan.

  4. 4

    Oro

    16 hours · 2 days

    The team at its best: shared leadership, its own rituals and follow-up.

Groups of 5 to 100 people · Cartagena, Coffee Region and Bogotá.

“For the team, the trip does not end at the airport. It ends on Monday, when they are back at their desks.”

By Yiseth Caicedo · ALKIMISTIKA, our facilitation team

An example: 3 days in Cartagena

Every programme is tailor-made. This is how a classic incentive trip can flow.

  1. Day 1 · Arrival and welcome

    Airport transfer, check-in, Activation of Meaning to open the trip and a welcome cocktail at sunset on the bay.

  2. Day 2 · The peak moment

    Raft building or regatta in the morning, lunch on the islands and a night on Catamaran Island with live cooking and music.

  3. Day 3 · Closing with purpose

    Walking tour of the walled city, closing session with team agreements and the farewell gala.

  4. After · Back on Monday

    Summary of learnings and a follow-up plan, so what they lived shows at the office.

Our programmes

Talks, workshops and hands-on experiences for operational, middle and senior levels. Nothing generic: everything is designed around your company’s reality.

Leadership workshop for senior managers

Conscious Leadership 360°

Senior and middle management

  • Strategic neuro-emotional leadership
  • Emotional intelligence for leaders
  • Conscious communication
  • Mental health and self-management
Format
Talk + workshops + follow-up
Why
Turnover, climate, performance and leadership
Team in an emotional intelligence workshop

Emotionally Intelligent Teams

Operational and administrative teams

  • Applied emotional intelligence
  • Conscious teamwork
  • Conflict management
  • Emotional resilience
Format
Hands-on workshop
Result
More stable, productive teams
Sales team during a customer experience workshop

Human Sales & Customer Experience

Sales and service teams

  • Human neuro-sales
  • Ethical persuasion
  • Emotional communication
  • Intelligent customer service
Format
Hands-on workshop
Key learning
Closing · loyalty · complaints
Wellbeing session for a whole organisation

Organisational Wellbeing & Mental Health

The whole organisation

  • Stress management
  • Burnout prevention
  • Emotional self-management
  • Caring for the carer
Format
Hands-on workshop

Why Holidays in Colombia

Everything solved in one place: experience, logistics, transport, accommodation and food, designed around your group’s goal. Responsibly and sustainably.

Traditional musicians welcoming a group

Hosting & atmosphere

Hosts, traditional musicians and live music so energy never drops.

Canapés served at a corporate event

Catering

Menus, canapés and drinks for welcome cocktails, lunches on the beach and gala dinners.

Host leading a beach event

Your brand, everywhere

Concept implementation, branding, audiovisual crew and the “wow” factors that make the photo.

Hire the experts

More than 6 years designing and operating travel experiences in Colombia, with a licensed agency (RNT 74577) based in Cartagena. Every programme includes:

  • Permanent commercial support
  • Professional logistics team
  • Audiovisual equipment
  • Creativity and concept design
  • Special boats
  • Safety and biosafety
  • Fast response times
  • Advice from the first idea

How we design it

Three questions before choosing the destination. Then, one team in charge of everything.

  1. What are we really celebrating?

    Not just the number: how it was achieved and who deserves recognition.

  2. Who needs to connect?

    Areas that blame each other, new leaders, teams that grew fast and no longer know each other.

  3. What should feel different on Monday?

    If there is no answer, the trip stays a holiday. We design the peak moment and how the story ends.

  4. We run it end to end

    Experience, transport, boats, hotels, food, on-site coordination and a contingency plan. One contact, in English or Spanish.

“The celebration is the excuse. The team is the destination.”

By Yiseth Caicedo · ALKIMISTIKA, our facilitation team
Team jumping with joy on the beachTeammate laughing during the activityRaft race in the seaRope knot on a raftTeam toasting with medalsSmiling participant

Where we can do it

These activities adapt to each city. Tell us where your group will be and we design the programme there.

Rafts in turquoise water near Cartagena

Cartagena

The full nautical portfolio: rafts, regatta, Catamaran Island, sunsets, islands and beach clubs.

  • Nautical team building
  • Islands
  • Large events
Relay race on the beach

Barranquilla

Beach games, Carnival culture, gastronomy and business agendas on the Caribbean coast.

  • Beach games
  • Carnival culture
  • Business events
Green Andean landscape

Medellín

Innovation, leadership workshops and day trips to Guatapé, Jardín or Santa Fe de Antioquia.

  • Leadership
  • Day trips
  • Bike Builders
Travellers on a coffee farm

Eje Cafetero

Pereira · Armenia · Manizales

Retreats in nature, coffee culture, equine coaching, hot springs and the Cocora Valley.

  • Retreats
  • El Crisol
  • Wellbeing
Tropical orchestra on stage

Bogotá

Conventions with full infrastructure, leadership programmes, culture and live tropical music.

  • Conventions
  • Leadership
  • Galas
Crowd dancing to a live orchestra

Cali

The world capital of salsa: dance classes, live music and energetic closing parties.

  • Salsa class
  • Live music
  • Year-end parties

Tell us the city, the dates and how many people are coming: with that we send you a tailor-made proposal in PDF within 24 business hours.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a corporate incentive trip?

A trip a company offers its team, clients or partners in recognition of reaching goals. Well designed, it also strengthens connection and commitment.

What does an incentive programme include?

Whatever your group needs: transfers, accommodation, food, experiences and team building, hosting, audiovisual, branding, live music and a coordinator on site.

Can it include team building?

Yes: from 90-minute experiences and nautical challenges to staged programmes of 4 to 16 hours with an action plan.

In which cities can we do it?

Cartagena, Barranquilla, Medellín, the Coffee Region (Pereira, Armenia, Manizales), Bogotá and Cali. The nautical experiences are in Cartagena; the rest adapt to each city.

How many people can you host?

From groups of 5 people to 130 guests in nautical formats and up to 200 in tastings and live-cooking experiences. For larger events we design the venue and logistics with you.

How far ahead should we plan?

6 to 12 weeks is ideal; for large groups or high season (December–January, Easter, mid-year), plan earlier: the best boats, venues and dates go first.

How much does it cost?

It depends on the destination, group size, duration and experiences. We quote each programme to measure: tell us your goal, dates and number of people on WhatsApp.

Do you work with travel agencies and DMCs?

Yes. We provide ground services in Colombia for agencies, DMCs, wholesalers and event planners, with local knowledge and reliable logistics.

Tell us your group’s goal and we’ll design the experience for your trip

Cartagena, Barranquilla, Medellín, Coffee Region, Bogotá and Cali · groups of 5 to 130.

  • Tailor-made proposal in PDF to your email
  • Reply within 24 business hours
  • One team, from the idea to the last transfer
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