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Desert Survival: In Search of the Golden Camel

Survivor Team Building for Executive Retreats in Dubai & Oman

2 1/2 Day Business Retreat to Fine-tune
Your Sales, Marketing & Corporate Strategy

Business Team Building Retreat

Available in United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) & Oman

• Boost team performance.
• Fine-tune your marketing, sales and corporate strategy.
• Prepare your team for the challenges of a rapidly changing environment.

Our Desert Survival Survivor Team Building in Dubai is a facilitated overnight business simulation in the desert that is ideal for executive retreats, sales rallies and incentive travel. This stranded in the desert simulation will familiarize your team with a toolkit that they will then use to analyze your own business issues and challenges. Your team will participate in a variety of faciliated business exercises and outdoor team challenges to hone your sales, marketing and teamwork skills. You will also get exposure to the global marketplace, broaden your horizons and gain a more international perspective.

Nobody gets voted off!

Desert Survival: In Search of the Golden Camel is a 2 1/2 day faciliated business team building simulation Not a short recreational safari.

Your team will spend a day in the desert and will have the option of camping out overnight. It is available for executive retreats, team building retreats, & sales incentive trips.

As you can see from this map Dubai and Abu Dhabi are both in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and no where near the Gaza Strip. Your team will be perfectly safe in the UAE.

Available Mid-October to End of April [Why?]

Outline

• Benefits
• Highlights
• Business & Brainstorming Tools
• Activities Included
• What we Offer
• What we Don't Offer

• Dubai Desert Safari Itinerary Itinerary
• Dubai Sample Pricing
• Oman Desert Safari Itinerary
• Quest for Black Gold in Abu Dhabi
• Luxury 1 Day Safari in Dubai

Team-building essential for companies in
"challenging" UAE business environment

"We had a great time and took away a number of good learnings. I have no hesitation in recommending Executive Oasis International to any interested companies."

Akhtar Zahid, General Manager, Blue Nile Dairy Company Ltd.,
The Dal Group of Companies (Sudan)

For Serious Inquiries Only

We would be pleased to handle your inquiry, check availability of dates and venues and send a proposal if:

• a budget has been allocated
• you are certain about your numbers
• you are DEFINITELY ready to select and book a service provider within 5 business days of receiving our quote

We require a US$500 deposit before any hotels or other venues are contacted on your behalf. [Why?] This will be deducted from your fees if you book your session with us.

Review Terms & Conditions Before Requesting Quote

Request Quote by On-Line Form or
E-mail - Dubai E-mail - Oman

If you are not ready to select a supplier and make a booking, we'll be pleased to give you a rough idea of pricing and options but please use:

Contacts For Preliminary Inquiries

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Benefits

Click here for full overview of the benefits of our approach
to Survivor Team Building for Executive Retreats.

Stranded in the Desert Simulation

Highlights

Available:

Group Size:

Time Required:

Mid-October to April [Why?]

30 - 100+
(Optimal = 40 - 80)

2 FULL Days Plus 3 Hour Briefing
(Early Morning Pick-up, Full Day,
Overnight at Camp)

Locations:

Skills/Competencies:

Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman

• Marketing Skills
• Change Management
• Creativity
• Brainstorming
• Out of the Box Thinking

Programme Details

Book Early to Avoid Disappointment.

Hotel space sells out fast in Dubai.

Please let us check availability before you lock in your dates.

Request Quote by On-Line Form or
E-mail - Dubai E-mail - Oman

Desert Survival in the USA now available.

This once in a lifetime adventure is closer than ever. Direct flights are now available from Toronto, New York, the UK, Australia, major cities in Europe (Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Milan) and Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Singapore) to Dubai & Abu Dhabi.

Important: To offer this session with the name Survivor and include elements from the show, we will have to collect royalty charges from you and pass them on to CBS, Disney or Touchstone depending on your location.

Upgrades Available

We can upgrade this overnight team building simulation to a luxury safari that includes:

• Dune bashing in Hummers
• 5 star gourmet dinner served on china with linen, crystal, and silverware
• Upgraded mattresses and bedding
• Hot Air Ballooning
• Tandem Sky Diving
• Camel Polo
• Champagne picnic on the dunes
• Celebrity appearances by Survivor cast members
• Customized recorded introduction by Survivor host
• Official Survivor apparel and memorabilia
• Afternoon Tea at Burj Al Arab
• Jumana secrets of the Desert Show
• Catamaran Cruise
• Abseiling

Similar Programmes

The Quest for Black Gold, a facilitated business simulation
in the desert near Abu Dhabi is also available.

One day luxury desert team building safari
with or without business facilitation also available.

Mountain team building & beach team building
with business facilitation are also available in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman.

For other business simulations available in the UAE and globally,
please also see "International Team Building" (on the side menu).

Visitors from United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi),
Oman and other Gulf Countries:

We periodically conduct executive retreats in Dubai and Oman. You can save on the airfare by booking a session on the same trip when we are serving other clients. This will provide an opportunity to split airfare.

Business & Brainstorming Tools

• Corporate Landscape Analyzer
• Storyboards
• Priority Grids

• Force Field Analysis
• Mind Maps
• Flow Charts
  (Not reviewed)

If your team is already familiar with these tools and using them on a regular basis, we can substitute with other tools. Alternatively, we can make the session process focused rather than tool focused. This will involve additional costs as we will require one observer/assistant facilitator per team to observe and provide feedback about group dynamics during team challenges.

Activities Included in Desert Suvival: Survivor Team Building Simulation

• business facilitation
• dune bashing by jeep, an exhilirating roller coaster race up and down the sand dunes in Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Oman
• dune buggy race
• tent pitching challenge
• mini soccer challenge
• treasure hunt for the golden camel featuring GPS Geocaching and orienteering with compass and map
• sunset picnic on the dunes

• camel trek
• camel watering relay
• traditional Arabic dress for dinner
• BBQ feast under the stars (5 star option available)
• belly dancer
• fire starter challenge
• cooking challenges
• sunrise breakfast
• shisha
• henna (optional)

To ensure your safety and produce optimal results, we discourage the use of alcohol during our executive retreats, particularly prior to activities that require physical exertion. For rugged activities that require a high level of alertness, we reserve the right to refuse participation to any individual who is intoxicated.

                      During your desert survival team building in Dubai, we can also offer:

• Bedouin style shelter construction challenge
• Sand Skiiing Relay
• dirt bike race and obstacle course in the desert
• raft building

• sunrise or sunset hot air ballooning
• splash party &picnic at an oasis
• abseiling in the mountains
• Dhow cruise on the Dubai Creek
• .... and much, much more

What we Offer

We are an executive consulting firm with expertise
in the design and facilitation of business simulations.

We deliver MUCH more value than just "fun in the sun". We bundle our expert business facilitation with recreational activities and team challenges flawlessly executed in collaboration with our global network of local alliance partners. We provide the business facilitation and event planning services. Our alliance partners provide the recreation, transfers, and ground logistics based on our specifications.

You can select from:

• a team building simulation or executive retreat
• a customized package bundling our expert team building facilitation with tours, excursions, recreational activities, special events, hotel, meeting space, and transportation.

We are based in Toronto, Canada but we offer sessions in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Oman regularly. We have worked with Middle Eastern companies. We welcome the opportunity to offer team building retreats for more companies from gulf countries (GCC) including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.

Currently scheduled for sessions in the Gulf Region

• March 21 to 28, 2009 - Egypt (Can stop over in United Arab Emirates)
• June 24 - 29, 2009 - Dubai (Indoor sessions available only)

What We Don't Offer

If you are looking for detailed and rigourous analytical tools and complex financial models, our approach would not be a good fit for you. Our focus is on innovation and using tools that will help executives from fast-paced organizations get a view of the lay of the land to determine priorities, expedite decision making and engage in course correction to keep abreast of marketplace developments. We'll help you identify obstacles, challenges, and opportunities so that you can chart your course when action is needed.

We are a consulting firm specializing in facilitated business team building simulations. We offer our team building programmes at stunning locations worldwide but we are not a travel agent. Our business team building simulations incorporate recreational activities but recreation is not our speciality. Our retreats usually have a gala dinner or a night of entertainment but we are not an entertainment company.

Please note that we do not specialize in strictly recreational desert safaris for small teams.

We do offer a luxury desert safari in Dubai that is avaiable with our without business facilitation.

Minimum group size = 40

Dubai Itinerary

Request Quote by On-Line Form or E-mail - Dubai

Agenda

Day 1

• Very early morning arrival reccommended
• Dubai: Transfer to Hotel in Heritage Section
• Early Lunch
• Oman: Transfer to Hotel Near Desert
• Dubai Optional City Tour (Heritage)

• Afternoon Tea
• Executive Briefing
• Team Briefing
• Free Time
• Dinner - Dubai: Dhow Dinner Cruise Recommended

Day 2

• Early Departure for Desert
• Dune Bashing in 4 x 4 Jeeps (Can upgrade to Hummers)
• Desert Product Mind Maps
• Marketing Strategy Grid
• Lunch
• TV Commercial Storyboard
• Feasibility Analysis with Force Fields
• Debriefing Prep. Questions
• Dune Buggy Races
• Sand Skiing Relay

• GPS/Orienteering Challenge in Search of the Golden Camel
• Sunset Picnic on the Dunes
• Camel Safari to Bedouin Camp
• Camel Watering Relay
• Arabic Coffee
• Team BBQ Challenge (optional)
• Arabic Dress for Dinner
• BBQ Dinner Under the Stars
• Belly Dancer
• Shisha/Henna
• Camp out in the Desert
  (Groups also have the option of returning to the hotel for the day 3 agenda)

Day 3

• Sunrise Snack
• Firestarter Challenge
• Team Cooking Challenge
• Debriefing
• Re-configure Teams
• Business Issue Analysis with Simulation Tools
• Mini Presentation Development

• Mini-Presentations and Discussion
• Other Business Agenda Items
• Lunch
• Pack up Camp
• The Rescue: Dubai Raft Building
  or Abseiling
• Transfer to Beach Hotel

Dubai Sample Pricing

Dubai Incentive Travel Package

Estimate does not include:

Estimate includes:

• Return airfare (Toronto to Dubai), visa, transfers, and hotel for business facilitator
• Meeting Room Facilities
• Transfers and hotel for participants
• 1 Night at Hotel in Heritage Section of Dubai
• I Night at Beach Hotel in Dubai
• Breakfast Daily
• Lunch Daily
• Dhow Dinner Cruise
• Return transfers to desert
• All meals and snacks in desert
• Activity and business facilitation
• Regular Overnight Safari
• Desert Feast
• 1 Night Accomodation at Desert Camp

• Airfare and visa for participants
• Audio-visual Equipment at the hotel and for large groups in the desert
• Jumana Secrets of the Desert Dinner Theatre

Group Size

Pre-Briefing Plus 1 Day

Pre-Briefing Plus 2 Days

50 people

• US$1240 Per Person (Regular)
• US1318 Per Person (Luxury)

• US$500 Per Person

25 people

• US$1386 Per Person (Regular)
• US1485 Per Person (Luxury)

• US$500 Per Person

10 People

• US$1775 Per Person (Regular)
• US$1888 Per Person (Luxury)

• US$848 Per Person

Oman Itinerary

Request Quote by On-Line Form or E-mail - Oman

Agenda

Day 1

• Very early morning arrival reccommended
• Transfer to Desert Hotel
• Lunch

• Executive Briefing
• Team Briefing
• Executive Briefing - 1 Hour
• Team Briefing and Part 1 of Business Simulation - 3 hours
  1. Orientation
  2. Safety Guidelines
  3. Team Names with Mind Maps
  4. Desert Product Mind Maps
• Afternoon Tea
• Free Time
• Dinner

Day 2

• Facilitated Business Simulation Exercises
  1. Marketing Strategy Grid
  2. Marketing Strategy Flow Chart
  3. Debriefing Prep.
• Buffet lunch at desert hotel
• Prayers

Desert Safari

• GPS/orienteering safari to find the Silver Camel. Each team will have 4WD, GPS and compass.
• Sandboard & quad bike team relay challenge
• Firestarter challenge preparation of light chocolate snack
• Refreshment break
• Camel Safari into desert
• Camel Watering Relay & sunset snacks
• Sunset arrival back at desert campsite
• Freshen up for dinner
• Traditional Omani dress demonstration before group dons their own – by themselves!
• Desert bread cooking demonstration then they prepare own bread for dinner
• BBQ dinner
• Henna & shisha preparation/challenge
• Traditional dancing

Day 3

• Debriefing
• Re-configure Teams
• Business Issue Analysis with Simulation Tools
• Mini Presentation Development
• Mini-Presentations and Discussion

• Lunch
• Other Business Agenda Items
• Pack up Camp
• Transfer to Beach Hotel in Muscat or to Airport