Networking distributors React Technologies and Rocom have ramped up their reseller retention efforts by offering to send high-spending partners on exotic shindigs.

Wireless specialist React is offering adventurous VARs the chance to take part in its Motorbike Adventure tour around India in March of next year. Any reseller purchasing more than £150,000 worth of networking kit from the Aruba partner between July and December will qualify for the two-week, 2,000 mile jaunt.

The tour will start in Mumbai and head northeast, passing through the cities of Madhya Pradeshs, Bhopal, Jhansi and Agra – home of the Taj Mahal. After passing through capital city New Delhi the tour will explore the Thar Desert and finish by heading along India's west coast, through Surat and Daman and finishing back in Mumbai.

Meanwhile comms outfit Rocom is offering any resellers to achieve their sales targets this year a five star tip to South Africa in October. VARs will enjoy a three-night stay at a luxury hotel close to Cape Town and Table Mountain National Park.

The distributor's vendor partners BT, Panasonic, Plantronics, Nortel, Aastra, Avaya, BTIPS and Cable & Wireless will all be sending representatives and Rocom managing director Richard Carter claimed the trip offered a good chance to strengthen channel ties.

“The trip is a thank you to our resellers for their continuous business and loyalty throughout 2008," he said. "This incentive will give us the opportunity to get to know our resellers and suppliers better, and as a result, enable us to further improve our support to them.”