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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. Andrew put together a tour for his friend centered around the 2008 crisis.

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New Event Forecast: Stable Growth in 2019

Smart Meetings

A decade after the 2008 recession, the industry appears to be stable, with steady growth on the horizon according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events (M&E), a division of American Express Global Business Travel (GBT). Incentives and special events are predicted to increase 1.8 percent in North America, 1.5

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Smart Moves in Dallas, Turkey and More

Smart Meetings

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.

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Strategies to Boost Team Productivity through Advocate Leadership

Gavel International

Here are some strategies you can use to help transform your team’s productivity: Create an Open Environment Creating an open environment where people feel comfortable communicating perspectives, suggestions, and disagreements is vital for an advocate leader. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2008), 315–16. and Robert A.

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The UK and Spain’s travel industries unite at second edition of ‘Spain Sustainability Day’

Travel Daily Media

The dual language conference, moderated by Richard Hammond, director of Green Traveller productions and sustainable travel writer, included speakers from across Spain and the UK’s travel and transportation industries with panel sessions on circular economy, biodiversity and accessibility.

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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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WORLDHOTELS reports successes

Travel Daily Media

Over the past year, the group had followed its “IMPACT 2009” strategy, which included successful incentive schemes for MICE agents and corporate clients, the launch of a new booking engine and e-marketing department, as well as a new training initiative.