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The Anatomy of a Travel Program

One travel program, piece by piece.

Not a hotel voucher with a bow on it. A catalog of resorts, hotels, private villas, luxury homes, and off-the-beaten-path experiences from 15 years of running group travel.

5,000+
Resort & villa partners
50,000
Rooms booked
30+
Destinations
15 years
Sourcing inventory

Most auction travel packages are a single hotel in a single city on fixed dates. Meridian Experiences are different: one auction win can open a catalog of hundreds of properties across dozens of destinations — resorts, hotels, private villas, luxury homes, and off-the-beaten-path, proven high-quality experiences that the travelers browse and book on their own schedule.

01
After the auction

A login, not a voucher.

The couple receives credentials to their own Meridian account — same interface a Fortune 500 incentive winner uses. No narrow date window, no single-property lock-in, no "call this number to redeem."

What's behind it
  • Self-serve booking platform; donor travels on their timeline
  • Account retained for repeat-gift and follow-on packages
  • Organization sees a redemption record for stewardship
  • No trip coordination effort required of your organization.
02
Browsing the catalog

Scale they don't have anywhere else.

Thousands of properties across 30+ destinations — Maui, 30A, Cashiers, Tuscany, Vail, the Costa del Sol, Bali, Miami, Cancún, Ireland, the Canary Islands, Cabo. The travelers filter by desired travel dates and see a large catalog of real availability.

What's behind it
  • 5,000 resort and villa partnerships negotiated over 15 years
  • Live availability pulled from inventory systems, not static PDFs
  • Domestic and international coverage in a single catalog
  • Multi-resort packages (e.g., Hawaii or Ireland) for donor flexibility
A single-property voucher is a gift with a ceiling. A catalog is a gift with a floor — the traveler picks what actually fits the trip they want.
— Fifteen years. One inventory operation.
03
Private villas & luxury homes

Not just hotel rooms.

Meridian's catalog includes private villas and luxury home rentals — three to seven bedrooms, private pools, full kitchens, oceanfront or mountainside. Room for a couple, an extended family, or a multi-generational trip the couple has been putting off.

What's behind it
  • Villa and full-home inventory alongside traditional resorts
  • Sleeps 4–12; appropriate for family and multi-gen travel
  • Private-use properties as well as rooms in a larger resort
  • Properties vetted against Fortune 500 incentive-travel standards
04
Off-the-beaten-path experiences

The local experience the traveler may not find by themselves.

Curated add-on experiences at each destination — a private chef in a Portuguese cliff town, a sailing captain in the Canary Islands, a cigar-and-food walk in Little Havana, a guided forage in the Smokies. Local, pre-vetted, and chosen especially to pair with your Experience, the travelers select what works best for their group.

What's behind it
  • Per-destination experience library, refreshed seasonally
  • Local operators sourced through long-term resort and local government relationships.
  • Activities, dining, and private guides in one place
  • Local experiences usually included as part of your package.
05
Support, when it's needed

One line if something goes sideways.

The traveler self-books, but a live Meridian team stands behind it. Weather cancellation, a logistics hiccup, a missed connection — one number, one inbox, a real person. The same support operation that backs C-suite incentive travel.

What's behind it
  • Live support coverage across U.S. time zones
  • Direct vendor relationships for rebooking and recovery
  • Resort-GM escalation path on file for each property
  • Concierge support is part of the package — not an add-on fee or markup
Fully on consignment · Nonprofit pays nothing if the package doesn't sell

This is why donors bid higher.

Because the winner isn't getting a fixed-date hotel room — they're getting access to an inventory operation normally reserved for Fortune 500 incentive programs. International, domestic (30A, Cashiers, Vail, Miami, Nashville), or a custom package built around your donor base — share a little about the event and we'll put something together.

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