Team Building in Istanbul
Looking for a team-building activity in Istanbul? This page is for you.
6 team-building activities in Istanbul
Looking for a team-building activity in Istanbul is a bit like negotiating prices at the Grand Bazaar during the peak tourist season. – it can take a long time, and it’s not always easy to find the perfect option.
We are experts in creating unique team-building activities at UrbanGaming, utilizing the latest technology, personalization, and shared enjoyment to strengthen your team.
Below are 9 different team-building options.
Digital Rally
Concept: An enjoyable high-tech treasure hunt that explores the city’s cultural side. Sultanahmet district becomes a board game with a range of fun, cultural, and historical challenges.
Requirements: This treasure hunt can be adapted. We just neet your attendees, and a smarphone per team.
Perfect Team building for:
- exploring areas you don’t work in.
- large groups (we’ve run this game for 1000 people at once).
- good weather 🙂
Food Hunt
Concept: In Foodhunt, each team follows the route specially prepared for them. Various tastes await them at every point they go. Participants, who taste the flavors at each point and complete their tasks, move on to the next point.
Requirements: With about forty hunting zones, this dish can be adapted to any part of bitter Istanbul. Places such as Sultanahmet, Taksim, Istiklal may be better options in terms of culture in this regard.
Perfect team building for:
At the meeting points of the participants, they taste different flavors of food and drink. They feel many tastes from Turkish coffee to Turkish delight, from ice cream to corn. They create a special memory of the day by taking photos and videos from the enjoyable event.
Pace and love - Music Team Building
Concept: Everyone adopts easy beat patterns and eastern and Latin rhythms. Numerous vibrant percussion instruments may be seen in the participants’ event area. Following a fun heat session, the crew is divided into musical ensembles using close-up instruments. The ultimate effect is a sound that is strong, resonant, and far greater than the sum of its parts—a fantastic metaphor for a team!
Requirements: Ritmbox Motivation Workshop, where you can work with scenarios that can vary in length from 10 minutes to 2.5 hours; meeting, congress, picnic etc. It is a rhythm workshop solution for motivation through teamwork, specific to organizations with high participation. Rhythm instruments are distributed to all participants and they all make music together. Fast and effective!
Perfect team-building for:
- Real live collaboration, with some deep links / connection among the attendees
- if you have a big event room with chairs
Treasure Hunt in Istanbul
Concept : The treasure hunt games we play on tablets or other smart devices with uploaded missions and GPS trackers, or the traditional treasure hunt games we play with maps and compasses, immerse teams in a mystery and mystical adventure and on a challenging but thrilling trip.
Requirements: Either we employ all the digital chances and improved realities that multimedia technology have to offer, or we plan a traditional treasure hunt with maps and compasses.
Perfect Team Building for: if you want to improve team communication and interpersonal relationships. Additionally, attendees gain greater knowledge about the region’s historical and cultural legacy. All of this helps the teams playing the game become closer and gives them a unique experience.
Photo Team Building
Concept: Your party will be split up into teams, and each team will be handed postcard-style photos that have already been taken, with instructions to recreate the same photos using their own imaginations. The teams will be assisted in their travels across old Istanbul by their guides, maps, compasses, and other equipment. The judges will decide which photos are the most stunning and award those winners. All pictures will be printed and given as presents and displayed for our visitors.
Requirements: A photographic adventure to the most beautiful places of old Istanbul! You will recreate the legend with your own cameras.
Perfect team building for: If you want to discover the city, and have something to remember at the end. There will be many colorful and entertaining moments at the Photo Rally.
Virtual Team Buillding
Concept: Take the Green Academy’s test to decide which team will lead Green Impulse, the jewel of clean energy aviation.
Requirements: This is a virtual escape game for teams working remotely. All each player needs is a PC or smartphone and your preferred video conferencing platform, such as Zoom, Skype, Team, Slack, etc.
Perfect team building for: Remote workers. As telecommuting becomes more and more common, this game builds a sense of team cohesion and spirit despite disparate work environments.
La casa del Papel
Concept: This is a team-building activity that will make you feel the excitement and suspense of the show with the help of our event host and moderator team. After a successful meeting, our teams face the threat of losing all our company data in a vault and have to complete a scenario with 15 different stages that require strategic moves, teamwork skills, communication and problem-solving abilities. Our theater instructor, disguised as the professor, starts the game with a sketch on stage.
Requirements: .This game is specially designed according to the area where the activity will be performed.
Perfect team building for: In our Squid game event, an efficient team activity is carried out and fun. It is aimed to increase the motivation of the participants. The importance of teamwork is emphasized.
The challenge
Concept: A game based on group communication, cohesion, and cooperation, teams go in search of a scientific notebook in a disused factory. Time is limited and every decision could be your last – so think hard, talk ideas through, and listen to each other! To make the right decisions, you’ll need your collective intelligence, a shared vision, and full group support.
Requirements: Cabaret-style seminar rooms and a central screen.
Perfect team building for: Conventions, being focused on dialogue, listening and cooperation. Best in plenaries with tables of 6 to 10 people.
Surivor Adventure race
Concept: Survive! Adventure Race is a team activity concept that invites participants to compete as a team on the exciting and challenging courses of the Survivor competition. Participants try to accomplish different tasks, such as crossing a lake full of crocodiles, escaping a giant spider web, or riding a bicycle without touching it1.
Requirements: Institutions looking for a team activity full of adventure and competition. Number of participants varying between 10-100 people. Open space option. 2-3 hour period
Perfect team building for: Teams that want to increase team spirit and solidarity. Employees who want to improve their physical and mental skills. Organizations that want a fun and immersive experience
Murder in Orient express
Concept: In this event, participants will step into the shoes of the world’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, and try to solve a murder committed on the Orient Express train. The event is an interactive adventure game inspired by Agatha Christie’s classic novel.
Requirements: Participants will role-play according to the character cards given to them and investigate different parts of the train to find clues. Activity duration is approximately 90 minutes.
Perfect team building for: This event is ideal for organizations looking to develop teamwork, problem-solving, creativity and communication skills. Participants will both have fun and understand the importance of working together. The event is suitable for employees from different sectors and positions.
Marbling
Concept: First, the participants are given brief information about the Marbling Workshop. Participants start the Marbling Workshop by taking into account the information given by our instructor. At the Ebru Workshop, where teamwork is also important as well as individual skills, participants take a souvenir photo with their souvenir works.
Requirements: Areas where the instructor can move around freely and convey information to the participants are very useful.
Perfect team building for: Teams working according to the techniques shown by our instructor begin to use their creativity after a while. It produces beautiful works and the participants are very happy. They experience unforgettable memories and take lots of souvenir photos. Reinforces team spirit and teamwork
Sébastien
Accenture
Yesterday, I admit, I went into the virtual Escape Game feeling fed up and resentful. (...) what a beautiful tune – you transformed a requiem into a symphony, cheap wine into a grand cru. Well done! Well done and thank you. In a word, it was great. And I won't stop there! I was charmed, totally charmed…
Robert
Pam Saint Gobain
The whole team would like to thank ALL of you for this great training, successful team building and your commitment!
It was a great first collaboration, and without doubt just the start…
The clients are very happy and so are we!
A thousand thanks and see you soon for the next adventure!
Maeva
General Electric
Very friendly facilitators, impeccable organisation, magical location, and a fun game suitable for everyone. The groups gave it their all and got caught up in the challenge. The activity’s mix of culture, challenges and riddles gave us all an excellent time, letting us wind down from the convention’s first 3 days. Well done UrbanGaming – I thoroughly recommend this activity.
Francois
Total
Hello Guillaume,
I wanted to thank you and your team for such a pleasant evening.
it was a total success, and everyone was delighted.
See you soon I hope.
Many thanks again for your professionalism, responsiveness, and investment in our event.
Nicolas
Kone
Just to give you some immediate feedback, the teams loved the game. It was another great success, and I loved the fact that you thought of a little gift for the winning team. I don't remember having that in Dubai? In any case, thank you so much, and we’ll debrief when I get back.
A million thanks – especially to the great Sophie!
Aurélie
Engie
"A big thank you for your speech yesterday, I think it had the effect required – and I’m very glad this event gave you the opportunity to talk with our teams.
Thanks too for these additional elements. I’ll share them with our colleagues, who’ll get back to you.
"
Sébastien
Accenture
Yesterday, I admit, I went into the virtual Escape Game feeling fed up and resentful. (...) what a beautiful tune – you transformed a requiem into a symphony, cheap wine into a grand cru. Well done! Well done and thank you. In a word, it was great. And I won't stop there! I was charmed, totally charmed…
Robert
Pam Saint Gobain
The whole team would like to thank ALL of you for this great training, successful team building and your commitment!
It was a great first collaboration, and without doubt just the start…
The clients are very happy and so are we!
A thousand thanks and see you soon for the next adventure!
Maeva
General Electric
Very friendly facilitators, impeccable organisation, magical location, and a fun game suitable for everyone. The groups gave it their all and got caught up in the challenge. The activity’s mix of culture, challenges and riddles gave us all an excellent time, letting us wind down from the convention’s first 3 days. Well done UrbanGaming – I thoroughly recommend this activity.
Francois
Total
Hello Guillaume,
I wanted to thank you and your team for such a pleasant evening.
it was a total success, and everyone was delighted.
See you soon I hope.
Many thanks again for your professionalism, responsiveness, and investment in our event.
Nicolas
Kone
Just to give you some immediate feedback, the teams loved the game. It was another great success, and I loved the fact that you thought of a little gift for the winning team. I don't remember having that in Dubai? In any case, thank you so much, and we’ll debrief when I get back.
A million thanks – especially to the great Sophie!
Aurélie
Engie
"A big thank you for your speech yesterday, I think it had the effect required – and I’m very glad this event gave you the opportunity to talk with our teams.
Thanks too for these additional elements. I’ll share them with our colleagues, who’ll get back to you.
"
