The Most Remarkable Farewell Evening on an Incentive Group Trip
The city was Florence. The place was the Accademia Gallery. The event was the first private dinner ever in the Tribuna, the special area that showcases Michelangelo's DAVID. The night was titled "Dinner with David," created for our client and their 209 dealer guests. It became the most remarkable evening in the lives of all those present.
A night of legend and elation
7:00 pm. All tourists were gone from the museum. We moved in a mountain of chairs, tables, kitchen equipment, et al - to make David's Tribuna and The Corridor of Prisoners a wondrous dining room.
...and there was David
In the meantime, professional guides of Florence took our guests on a private tour of the Academy and then to the Hall of the Colossus where an Italian string quartet offered a suitable baroque musical background to their cocktail reception.
8:15 pm. We announced dinner. Guests entered ... and there was David and the Prisoners in breathtaking majesty!
An irrefutably elegant dinner, as befitted the occasion, followed. But the evening of legend and elation was far from finished for we had brought The Three Tenors - No not those three tenors - The Three Tenors from Milan's La Scala Opera House - to sing the well known arias from recognized Italian Operas to our guests to ensure the night would be forever after... legendary!
Five standing ovations later. Five demands for encore after encore later, and the tenors were allowed, regretfully, to depart.
It was a memorable evening. It followed faithfully the credo The Journeymasters espoused in our original 1968 portfolio ...
"It is the aim of The Journeymasters to run the external portion of a travel incentive (the trip itself) in a way the guests could not duplicate, no matter how wealthy they were nor how much of their wealth they were willing to spend."
It made sense to us in 1968, it makes sense to us today. If it makes sense to you also, perhaps you should talk to us before you commit to your next incentive travel journey. We, after all, are not called The Journeymasters for nothing.
Do you wish, maybe, that
you had been there?