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Five ways how travelling in Kenya can help improve your mental health

It’s all in the name. At Turnup Travel, we do exactly that by turning up and travelling, living up to our unlimited holidays’ mantra, until March 2020, when Coronavirus landed in Kenya.

As a business, we held the candle with positive media, telling stories of various destinations across our social media channels. Turnup for Good is involved in Mama To The Rescue – an initiative by the hospitality industry and spearheaded by our good friends Jay and Nina – our long term partners at Good Earth Group who donate packed lunch to frontline workers in the first phase, informal settlements, street families and needy kids in schools and at home.

Mama to the Rescue has served over 125,000 meals with support from Turnup for Good and other partners

In Q4, we teamed up with Jambojet for the Now Travel Ready Campaign wrapping up four legs of the destination marketing campaign to Diani, Malindi/Watamu, North Rift, and Kisumu just before the festive season.

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Travellers are affected differently by the pandemic and in this post, we’d also like to talk about mental health. Our approach has been to remain open and give our clients options whenever they’re ready to travel and equip them with tips, inspiration through our videos, tools to save, and just recently, we revived this blog as an outlet. Travel has provided a window to escape, travel media gave millions a glimpse of the world outside, hopes for a brighter future, and a way to celebrate life’s milestones like birthdays, honeymoons, and anniversaries through purpose-driven themed experiences. The effect of the lockdowns, restrictions of movement, overwhelming loss of loved ones, income sources, and destruction of livelihoods has been a huge factor.

Here are five tips for managing your mental health and fitness

Monitor your screen time and consume good vibes

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Social media can be a powerful tool to connect, have conversations and consume content. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, curate your feed and timeline a bit better by muting certain words, unfollow and seek love and light. Of course, this is not being oblivious to the current scenario. As a business, we chose to use our channels to share positive, empowering, and thoughtful messages as well as inspiring content to keep your dreams alive. If you’re travelling, you can put your phone away, on ‘do not disturb’ mode, or mute notifications so that you’re entirely immersed in the destination. You also don’t have to share details of where you are and what you’re doing in real-time for your safety and security.

Escape – spontaneous travel and going outside

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In the midst of lockdowns, restrictions of movement, and the digital overload that has been the case in the past year, make sure to change your scenery; go for a hike, take a nature walk, swim or just catch the sunrise. Discover the hidden gems of your favourite destination. We do the searching, so you have more time to explore. Turnup Travel will turn vacation days into unique travel experiences you’ll never forget. We find insider tips for snorkelling, hiking, and adrenaline-pumping adventures. We want to help you do just that by helping you go on the trips you’ve always dreamed of but never actually took the time. You are our guest; let us transform your dreams into beautiful memories. About anxiety and cancellations, flexibility is the name of the tour operations these days. For this reason, we revised our standard booking procedures, terms & conditions, and cancellation policy to ensure you can cancel, rebook and postpone with a lifetime deposit, so you travel when you’re ready. You can also start saving now, and that gives you one good thing, delayed gratification for your holiday in the future.

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Workcations, corporate retreats, and incentives

The best team building and corporate travel service in Nairobi

We continue supporting organisations and employees with contactless team building packages, workcation packages where you can work remotely and enjoy responsibly. We also facilitate retreats for teams looking to work on projects away from the confines of offices. You can bring key staff members together privately in fully furnished apartments, private catering and buffet meals for you and your chef. This not only helps the team bond. It also improves their productivity as they work together. You can take care of your team by sponsoring their COVID 19 test before getting together. We advise restricting social gatherings to not more than fifteen people. If you’re doing incentives, you can have them travel in batches instead of the entire organisation.

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When you turn up for work on Monday after a weekend staycation, there is a strong correlation between you being happier and more productive. You’re more likely to be promoted, and you’ll earn more over your lifetime. Make travel a consistent habit, and permanently happiness will follow. The best way to do this is through Turnup Travel.

Dream about vacations and relive memories

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The challenge of maintaining and improving the resident’s life quality and optimising the tourist experience of the visitors must join the advancement on the path of sustainability by sharing responsibility among all the tourist actors and agents of the destination. We partnered with Jambojet for a social media campaign that was a collaboration between Jambojet and other stakeholders. We used the campaign to showcase the measures that have been put in place throughout the customer’s journey, starting from the airport to the aircraft and at the hotel, and show the activities that you can do when they visit specific destinations.

You can scroll through your Google photos to relive memories, share your past travels and consume content that inspires your future travels. Reach out to some old travel buddies, keep in touch with business partners abroad and catch up with other travellers virtually as well as content creators. This helps form a community you can fall back on for support and good vibes as you plan the adventures of tomorrow.

Remember to take a break and chat with a professional

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In the current context, the economic ramifications of Covid 19 have led to job losses, strained incomes, a decline in revenues, so it is good to be realistic in terms of what you can achieve, timelines and workload.

So be kind to yourself and those around you. Above all, you can have a mix of work from home and a check in the office or have a team lunch for those human connections. Companies should indeed get counsellors to assist staff and if you’re self-employed, freelancing or unemployed, remember to refill that cup.

For entrepreneurs, the pressure of carrying responsibilities of a business means you may not have answers to all the problems. Prioritise your self-care because you cannot pour from an empty cup.

Written by Muthuri Kinyamu, co-founder of turnup.travel/new

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