Gifting
Given, not packaged.
There is usually a photograph when gifts are handed out.
For Companies
On the day it is given, the luggage tag is one of several things on a table.
There are speeches.
Names.
Hands shaken.
Someone puts it into a bag and takes it home.
For a while, nothing happens.
Then months later, at 5:40 in the morning, a suitcase is lying open on a bed.
A shirt goes in.
Chargers.
Passport.
The person closes the case and reaches for the handle.
There it is.
Their name pressed into the leather.
The company name smaller beneath it.
By now one corner has been scuffed by an airport belt.
The leather has darkened around the buckle.
The ceremony is long gone.
The object remained.
Some acknowledgements take time to arrive.
End-of-year gifts · Milestones · Incentive travel · Staff recognition · Client gifting
Names and identities debossed into the leather.
Not printed over it.
For Hotels & Hospitality
Checkout mornings have their own sound.
A zip closing.
Bathroom taps running once more.
Curtains opened to see what the weather is doing.
The room already beginning to look less occupied.
The guest checks the drawer beside the bed.
Passport.
Phone.
Cable.
There is a small leather piece in the bag that was not there when the journey began.
Perhaps it was waiting in the room.
Perhaps it arrived with a note.
At the time, it was a thoughtful detail among many.
Then the hotel disappears into distance.
Another airport.
Another trip.
Months later, the same cable holder is opened on a table thousands of kilometres away.
The property name is still pressed quietly into the leather.
Not a souvenir exactly.
Something better.
Something that found a reason to stay.
Cable holders · Luggage tags · Coasters · Journal covers · Small leather goods
Initials, guest names and property identities available.
For Personal Gifting
Some people are difficult to buy for because they do not need very much.
So another object is unlikely to solve the problem.
Better to give something that can disappear into their life.
A knife roll packed away after Sunday lunch.
An apron left hanging near the fire.
A key fob dropped into the same bowl every evening.
A journal cover carried from one notebook into the next.
At first, it is a gift.
Eventually, nobody calls it that.
That is when it has worked.