NextGreatPlace CEO Tom Filippini says the luxury vacation club is doubling from 25 to 50 destination partners.
“We'll have every western ski area covered,” Filippini says. Other locales include the Riviera Maya and Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe. “It's a big deal for us.”
Like its partner portfolio, the 15-employee NextGreatPlace is on track to double its staff in 2013.
“I'd expect us to at least be at 30 employees by the end of the year,” says Filippini, formerly of Exclusive Resorts.
Filippini says corporate clients are driving the company's growth.
“A lot of our growth is coming through working with companies that are very focused on the total well being of employees and want to offer them a benefit. It's going incredibly well. About 50 percent of eligible employees are signing up for the service and 75 percent of them are using it.”
Filippini says that hundreds of millions of paid time off days are unused by U.S. workers annually.
“That comes at an incredible cost," Filippini says. "Health and performance suffer. Companies are trying to get high-performance employees to take time off. We're right in the middle of that trend.”
Annual NextGreatPlace subscriptions prices start at $500 for an individual. Corporate membership prices vary based on company size. Members get a best price guarantee at destination partners as well as access to the company's “PlaceMakers,” which is used to plan itineraries and make necessary arrangements.
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