Where we run it
The cities and the places we know well enough to build a route on top of. Not a list of destinations: places we’ve already been, with the route already tested.
In these cities we bring four formats above all: the Urban Game with tablets and creative challenges, the Treasure Hunt with physical clues, Rescue Team with a mission to complete inside the time, and Urban Movie, where the team shoots a short film through the streets.
They can be run anywhere, and they don’t come out the same everywhere. The difference is made by how well we know the place: which courtyards open, what time the market is still alive, which local story will carry a puzzle and which one is only guidebook folklore.
In the places below the route already exists and has been run by real groups. Where there’s a video, it was filmed there.
Cities
Riyadh
The old town, the modern districts and the edge of the desert within reach. It’s the destination that has changed most in the shortest time, and a route there gets rebuilt often.
Jeddah
Al Balad, the coral-stone houses and the roshan. Lanes narrow enough to keep a group together, and a district that wakes up in the evening.
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Hegra and the Nabataean tombs, Dadan, Elephant Rock. A landscape with things carved into it, two hours by air and a programme booked months ahead.
Dubai
Al Fahidi, the Creek, the abras, the towers of the Marina. The historic quarter is the part people take for granted, and it’s where the rest of the city came from. On teambuildingincentive.ae.
Abu Dhabi
The corniche, the cultural district, the islands. Wider and calmer than Dubai, which changes the rhythm of a route: fewer stages and longer legs between them. On teambuildingincentive.ae.
Doha
The souq, the corniche, the museums. Compact enough that teams keep crossing each other’s paths, which pushes the pace up. On teambuilding.qa.
Desert, coast and islands
Outside the cities the route changes shape: fewer landmarks, more navigation, and a landscape that sets the difficulty by itself.
The desert
An hour and a half from Riyadh the references disappear: the escarpment they call the Edge of the World, and the dunes beyond it. It is the setting for orienteering, survival and the quad, and for a treasure hunt where the clues have to be found without a single street sign.
The old quarters
Al Balad in Jeddah, Qasr al-Hukm and Souq al-Zal in Riyadh, the mudbrick of Diriyah. The oldest part of each city, and the one where the interaction with the people who live there works best.
The Red Sea coast
The Jeddah waterfront, the reef a few metres out, and the coast running north towards KAEC, where we have run events. It is where the Carton Boat belongs, and where a morning in the water is something a whole group can do instead of an excursion for the two people who already dive.
Across the GCC
The Emirates
Dubai and Abu Dhabi, where the group has been working the longest and where the whole catalogue runs. They have a site of their own: teambuildingincentive.ae.
Qatar
In Doha the business district, the Corniche and the souq are close enough to be linked in a single route. For Doha, see teambuilding.qa.
Bahrain
We frequently operate in Manama. The city is compact, and the souq, the fort and the waterfront sit within a short walk of each other. In Saudi Arabia itself we also work regularly in Dammam and Khobar, on the Gulf side: out there the formats that travel best are the indoor ones and those built around a single venue, so the timing holds even with a large group.
Kuwait
We frequently operate in Kuwait City, along the bay, where the towers, the seafront and the old market give a route its fixed points.
And if the place isn’t on the list
We run it anyway, and it happens often: many clients already have their own site, their own resort or their own city and don’t want to move. In that case a site visit comes first, because the route has to be built on the ground and tested at least once. Tell us a few weeks in advance and we’ll organise it.
Let’s talk about your next team building
You don’t need to have picked a format yet. Tell us what you want your team to take home, how many of you there are and where you’ll be, and we’ll do the rest: within 24 hours you get a considered proposal for your case, with the formats that hold up against your numbers, and what each one leaves the team the day after.
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