TWENTY TRAVEL AGENTS HAVE A CHANCE TO STRIKE GOLD WITH REUNION TRIP
(Posted 19th June 2015)
French touroperator ‘Exotismes’ in their annual competition in which over 500 travel agents participated, gave the twenty winners a double surprise this year. To start with were the winners only told when they arrived at the airport in Paris CDG, where their journey would take them. The destination alone was a big surprise as it comprised a week on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, then followed by another week on the neighbouring Vanilla Island of Mauritius. The agents were flown from Paris to their two destinations by Reunion’s home airline Air Austral and plenty of action awaited them during their stay on the islands.
Taking a hint from the notorious pirate Olivier Levasseur, who roamed the Indian Ocean waters in search of bounty three hundred years ago, but who was captured and hanged on Reunion, did the organizers present a range of challenges to the twenty agents. They had to measure up in a dozen disciplines of sport, games and cultural knowledge, turning their stay on Reunion into a week long learning exercise for them about the destination. From discovering Tamil temples to experiencing the famous Maloya, from the hidden sites of St. Paulon the West coast to the nature reserve L’Etang to scaling the mountains of the interior, the group did it all.
And there came the second surprise into play. The three top performers, due to be announced only at a Reunion night on the 10th of September in Marseilles, will they find out who of the twenty will go home with an extra price in the form of a gold ingot. The overall winner will get one of 250 grams weight, the first runner up one of 100 grams weight and the second runner up one of 50 grams weight of pure gold.
Talk of striking gold, by being able to visit Reunion and then getting another chance for an additional prize, earned through absorbing destination knowledge and putting it to good use.
For added information on Destination Reunion click on www.reunion.fr
