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Incentive Travel: Interactive Connection is the Name of the Game

Smart Meetings

Walking tours provide distinct experiential learning that you can’t get any other way As incentive travel continues to be a critical tool for retaining and motivating talent, planners are looking for ways to make excursions more meaningful and memorable. One of the simplest ways to do so is by employing a local organized walking tour.

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Smart Moves at PCMA, M&IW and More

Smart Meetings

He joined VisitScotland Business Events in 2008 and has served as head of business events for the past 14 years. Kelly Peiffer Kelly Peiffer, M&IW Meetings & Incentives Worldwide (M&IW) welcomes Peiffer as its new business development director.

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Smart Moves in Dallas, Turkey and More

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He also worked on the opening team at Houston’s Texas Medical Center, as well as director of sales at Omni Fort Worth Hotel and director of sales and marketing at Omni Richmond Hotel in Virginia, where he was awarded Director of Sales and Marketing of the Year in 2008. and Canada. and Canada. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.

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Strategies to Boost Team Productivity through Advocate Leadership

Gavel International

1) This can lead to profound consequences and long-term impact on an organization. Encourage your team to work together by offering incentives, providing opportunities to take the initiative, and recognizing the value of the collective effort. Baron, Behavior in Organizations, 9th ed. and Robert A.

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5 Data Points to Attract and Retain Exhibitors and Attendees

Convene by PCMA

This is not a new challenge, Lippman said, and referred the 2008 ECEF keynote speaker, Greg Reid, YRC Worldwide’s CMO, who presented a case study on why a $10-billion Fortune 500 company reduced its exhibition participation by 45 percent while channeling its trade-show budget into launching its own corporate event.

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How Event Professionals Can Think Like Futurists

Convene by PCMA

In a living-with-COVID world, if there was one association that you would assume would know precisely how its upcoming May conference in Toronto will take shape, it would be the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), whose members make their living by helping organizations see what’s around the corner and far down the road.

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10 Takeaways from the 10th edition of Winning Strategies

DCI

An overwhelming 73 percent of respondents plan to visit an economic development organization’s website during their next site search. Location advisors have consistently favored staff contact and incentive information since 2008, while corporate executives value workforce statistics and demographics.