Many types of promotional items are oriented towards office use. Items such as pens, mouse mats, paper products, calendars and calculators are designed to keep your advertising message in the work-places of companies that you do business with. But what happens when your clients and business associates leave the office and travel on work-related business? They won’t be viewing your promotional messages while they’re out of the office, and you lose some potentially valuable advertising exposure.

Change all of that with travel-oriented promotional items. These are items that are designed for people on the go, who aren’t necessarily working in a job that confines them to an office for eight hours every work day. Travel items that are designed to make life on the road more convenient are perfect items for your sales employees, or for any client who travels frequently.

Items such as travel mugs, car tool sets, torches and sunglasses are ideal promotional items for people who routinely spend a lot of time driving. These items make traveling more convenient, and safer, too. For people who travel by air or rail frequently, a high quality set of laser engraved metal luggage tags can be a welcome gift. Laser engraving is a particularly good printing method for such items, as engraved messages have much more longevity than a standard printed design, and the great quality of a good set of luggage tags means the items will be used for years to come.

Personal items such as a radio or MP3 player are welcome items, too. Long journeys by rail quickly become less than interesting to people who travel this way frequently, and anything that provides a distraction is sure to be appreciated! Electronic hand-held games are also a great idea, and games such as electronic Sudoku are sure to be popular, considering the world-wide craze for the game that has sprung up in recent years.

Travel kits containing a variety of useful items are also popular gift ideas for clients and employees who are frequent travelers. First aid kits, shoe shine kits, manicure sets, hairbrushes, and traveling toothbrush kits are all specially designed to make life on the road more convenient—each contains several items that will help the recipients of your items look and feel their best while traveling. This can be particularly important for your employees, as presentation is of high importance for your salespeople, and any items that help them achieve a high standard of personal presentation while traveling are sure to be appreciated.

A really special gift for a valued employee might be a travel bag, an executive bag or laptop case. These provide an enormous amount of convenience in terms of storing and moving luggage from place to place, and also give you excellent advertising exposure too, as the bags are moved around between travel vehicles and hotels. This concept presents one of the true advantages of giving items oriented towards being used while traveling—items such as these can really boost your advertising exposure, as they’re very often items that will get used in public.