Orientation/Area Tours are crucial, especially when the transferees and their families have not visited their intended destination before. Tours not only introduce the transferee to the destination but also help them choose the neighbourhood of where they want to live. They are designed to ease the anxiety that may be felt when embarking on the unknown. The program will also reinforce the transferee's decision to move and prove to be powerful for persuading them to take up the position and decide upon an area in which to live.

The tours are provided with visits to potential homes and schools, as well as recreational facilities or other places of interest and will help:

• Provide information on local housing and neighbourhood amenities
• Provide positive reinforcement of Executive decision to relocate / accept new position
• Support recruitment of key new people
• Integrated cultural guidance
• Viewings of typical homes
• Particularly useful before embarking upon a full home finding programme
• Preliminary information on schooling
• Addresses Executive's questions & concerns about moving
• Provides independent information point for Executives & their families
• Demonstrate how much the corporation values this Executive
• 24/7 access to file status