You work hard to ensure that your processes for managing risk are thorough and consistent at your organization. In fact, you probably recognize that highlighting the ways you and your team approach risk management is a crucial selling point of your travel programs. Below, we’ve highlighted some best practices for ensuring that your approach to marketing the health and safety of your travel program is appropriate, legal, and effective.

Cornerstone’s Executive Director, Dave Dennis, has been managing vendor relationships and performing vendor safety assessments for over a decade. He recently offered training and resources for members to discuss the following: How is best-in-class vendor vetting performed? How do you manage gaps in aligning expectations, policies, or insurance coverages globally? How do organizations protect themselves from lawsuits (proactively)?

The solution: Thorough and consistent vendor vetting processes.

As an experiential education or travel operator, you’re surely well-versed in incident response. Do you and your organization have a clear plan of action for how you respond to emergent, unstable events?

When a crisis occurs, your organization relies on your response plan, and the individuals responsible for each function, to act accordingly. Prepare today by following these guidelines for developing a Crisis Response Team.