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Incentive Travel 2025: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Smart Meetings

Only 8% of North American corporate and agency buyers report decreased activity over 2024 and 2025, and only 6% have reported decreases for 2026. Attendees are still looking for cultural points to be included in an incentive program when attending an incentive experience. Lucky for planners, incentive travel is growing.

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Smart Travel: Chase and Travelport Team Up, Ottawa Airport and Light Rail Transit Connect, New Security Screening Wows in Frankfurt and More

Smart Meetings

A new transit extension just made your attendees arrival process smoother. In under 30 minutes, attendees can go from their flight to the heart of Ottawa. Getting lost in the sea of travel booking platforms? Travelport and Chase are using AI to secure your attention. Have an upcoming meeting in Ottawa?

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What is Stopping International Attendees from Returning to U.S. Conferences?

Smart Meetings

As that eases, it could not only help increase the ability to bring attendees to conferences from China, but other countries as well as Chinese visitors have been rerouting through neighboring destinations to get to their California events. The post What is Stopping International Attendees from Returning to U.S. Conferences?

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Business Travel Strikes Back, A New Company Culture Dawns

Smart Meetings

The heightened intensity of some of these nonnegotiable, not even entirely new skills, however, comes from a place of more conscious sensitivity to client and attendee needs. We learned quickly how well the remote model worked. According to GBT, travel programs are becoming one of the main ways remote teams meet.

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The Heart of Gathering: Lessons from the Fourth of July

Smart Meetings

Perhaps you plan for a company with remote workers or offices across the country, but everyone gathers for an annual event; that’s the moment for these employees who only see each other once a year or so, but work together all the time, to connect face-to-face. Take a day to enjoy being full-attendee!

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Five Great Reasons to Plan Your Next Meeting in Cincy

Convene by PCMA

The city is invested in upgrading its downtown convention district, combining the friendly, walkable vibe attendees appreciate while taking meeting facilities and accommodations to the cutting edge. Unmatched convenience and hospitality At the end of a long day, meeting attendees want to know comfort is just steps away.

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Upcoming All-Inclusive Resorts in Mexico and the Caribbean

Brightspot Incentive Events

Home to arguably the worlds best all-inclusive properties, our clients like both the attendee appeal of the crystal blue waters, white sandy beaches, and limitless pina coladas by the pool, but also the appeal to their pocketbooks with the substantial savings to be found when booking an incentive travel package at an all-inclusive resort.