A thousand years, from Qin to Tang, in four nights.
Designed for a team that has earned it.
First, what the journey has to do for the company. Then where it goes.
The question is not where to take a team.
It is how to give them one evening where they are seen, and something to carry back to the office.
This is an incentive built around an annual recognition night. It suits a company that has run a few city incentives already and wants a different direction: not another shopping city, but an ancient capital you can walk into.
The journey follows one line, from the Qin dynasty to the Tang. The first days are for slowing down, for wonder, and for making something by hand. On the fourth, the group steps into the Tang and into an evening that belongs only to them.
Four aims. Each lands on a moment of the programme, and each leaves something to take back to the office.
Recognition happens where Xi’an feels most like the Tang; on Signature and Signature Plus the whole group arrives in Tang dress. When a name is called, the setting belongs to this team alone.
An evening when names were called, and the moment the group’s warriors were unveiled.
A lacquer fan, a terracotta warrior, a team portrait on the city wall: everyone takes part rather than stands and watches.
One photograph of the whole team in Tang dress, each holding their own fan.
A fan and a warrior, each made by hand. Back at the office, they keep telling the story of the trip for a year.
A warrior with a name on it, on every desk.
Straight to Lintong on arrival, two nights in the same hotel and a late start the next day; after the hardest walk, something done sitting down.
Daily updates during the trip, and a full summary report afterwards.
Why Xi’an, why late October, and why in this order.
The Terracotta Army, the Ming city wall, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Tang Paradise. Xi’an is less a sight than a stretch of time you can step inside.
The Qinling is at its most colourful and the city has emptied out. Days are mild; the wall and the gardens are at their best at night.
Shopping cities and harbour towns give energy. Xi’an gives time, which is genuinely new for a team that has already been on a few incentives.
Four days, one line from Qin to Tang
Mountains first, not the city
The army, then the wall at dusk
Dressed in Tang style for the gala
Back to Xianyang, capital of Qin
The last stop is Xianyang, the capital of Qin. A journey that walks from the Qin to the Tang says goodbye under the lights of Qin.
Not a list of sights, but a handful of moments that were designed.
After the three pits of the Terracotta Army, every guest makes a warrior of their own. On Signature and Signature Plus, the base is carved with the guest’s name and the company’s.
The group’s warriors are not table decoration. On the fourth night, after the awards and before dinner, they are unveiled together, the whole group is photographed with them, and each guest leaves with their own.
Everyone has seen photographs of the Terracotta Army. What stays is the one you finished yourself, with your name on it.
Made in an air-dry clay that sets the same day, so the warriors are ready to be unveiled on night four.
Back in Lintong after the mountain, the group sits down at the hotel to make lacquer fans: a plain fan is dipped, the colour moves across the water on its own, and the pattern is there when it lifts out. About forty minutes, taken home the same day, and held in the Tang portraits two days later.
Warriors in one form, each carved with a name: the individual within the uniform. Fans, no two alike: chance within the individual. An army, and a team.
Autumn at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the morning. In the afternoon, Tang Paradise: styling in two groups, then team portraits in the gardens at golden hour, everyone holding the fan they made two days earlier. A touch-up before dinner, and the recognition night begins. The dress is brocade and embroidery, and after dark a fur-collared cape goes on top (for senior leaders on Signature, for every guest on Signature Plus): it looks the part, and it keeps out the late-October night air in the gardens.
The Han & Tang Banquet is held inside Tang Paradise, so styling, portraits, dinner and the night afterwards all happen without leaving the gates. Moving the whole group in wide Tang sleeves across the city by coach would undo the mood in half an hour.
Six days and four nights, airport to airport. All three tiers follow the same route.
Landing is close to midnight, so the group goes to Lintong once and stays two nights. No check-out and no early start the next morning.
Xi’an’s history is heavy. A day in the autumn mountains first resets the pace, so the Terracotta Army lands with full force the next morning.
The visual high point of the journey, turned into something you can carry home.
One unbroken chain, never changing back: see the Tang, enter it, become part of it, sit for the portrait, go to dinner in it.
A whole morning set aside for shopping, so it is properly planned rather than squeezed in. The last stop returns to Xianyang, echoing the Terracotta Army of day three.
Nothing more on the last leg. Everyone goes home with their warrior, not with fatigue.
The programme is built around an overnight flight out of Kuala Lumpur and a pre-dawn flight home; international flights are not included in the price. Autumn opening at Shaohua Mountain and the park and venue arrangements are confirmed with the operators at booking.
With a whole group, the hard part is never the sights. It is the details nobody notices until they go wrong.
VIP coaches sized to the final group, plus a luggage vehicle on day three from Lintong to the Xi’an hotel.
Every group travels with an experienced, professional Chinese-speaking Tour Manager, with the group throughout. For groups of more than 30 guests, or programmes with a higher budget, additional coordinators or tour leaders can be added as the programme requires.
A medical kit with the group, a nearby top-grade hospital identified, 24-hour emergency contact; group AIG Travel Insurance included.
Pork-free, Muslim and vegetarian needs fully arranged.
China is almost entirely cashless. At the pre-departure briefing, everyone links an overseas card to Alipay or WeChat Pay in the room, rather than handing out a leaflet.
Late-October nights in Xi’an fall to about 8–12°C and Tang dress is thin. Tang-style capes are ready for the evening, for senior leaders on Signature and for every guest on Signature Plus, because a down jacket in the photograph is worse than the cold.
Tang dress is worn for six to eight hours, so a touch-up station before dinner takes the whole group through in 45 minutes.
After the photograph, every warrior is boxed, labelled and sent to rooms during dinner by a dedicated team, not the banquet staff.
Three tiers on one route. They differ in how well you sleep, how complete day four is, and how grand the gala is.
RM 3,500per person
priced for 30 guests · twin share · international flights not included
The full programme with a well-run recognition dinner.
RM 4,500per person
priced for 30 guests · twin share · international flights not included
This is Han & Tang Splendour itself: a whole day in Tang dress, all the way to dinner.
RM 5,000per person
priced for 30 guests · twin share · international flights not included
The same day, with heritage-grade dress for everyone and a fuller gala.
Where you stay, by tier
Hotels listed are those planned; final allocation depends on availability at booking.
Essential
Signature
Signature Plus
Included in every tier
Not included
Two commitments
The price is locked when the deposit is paid; if exchange rates move by more than ±3%, any change is agreed in writing under the terms, never imposed.
If an included item cannot go ahead because of weather or a site closure, and there is no equivalent alternative, that item is refunded.
This is a reference itinerary. The final arrangements may be adjusted to suit your actual departure date, flight schedule and local operating conditions.
Share your next journey with us. We would love to design a journey around you.
The earlier it is confirmed, the earlier seats, hotels and the key venues are held.
How many people, the budget, who you want to recognise, and what you want to say to them this year. We shape this Xi’an journey around your team.
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