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3 Ways Hospitality Can Win at Digital Marketing

Smart Meetings

Understand Your Target Audience: Who Are Meeting & Event Planners? Meeting and event planners are creative, detail-oriented professionals responsible for organizing everything from corporate conferences and trade shows to weddings and incentive travel. Ready to take your strategy to the next level?

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Canada Calls: Event Planning Paradise

Smart Meetings

Big Meetings Love Canada Following Covid-19 pandemic, Canada is seeing the return of U.S. We’re also seeing a rise in corporate meeting and launch events with tradeshows and incentive trips. Canada is currently the top destination for incentive trips among U.S. association customers.

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Dubai Made Huge Event Wins in First Half of 2022

Smart Meetings

The first six months of 2022 were a busy time for Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, as Dubai Business Events (DBE), Dubai’s convention bureau, as the two destinations collaborated to procure 99 event bookings over the coming years. Dubai’s ability to book this number of events are credited to the success of the country’s Expo 2020.

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Great Meetings Happen at Hyatt Zilara and Hyatt Ziva

Smart Meetings

It’s all included and bestowed with heartfelt service that has helped make Zilara and Ziva the new favorite brands for meeting and incentive planners around the world. Mexico’s Riviera Maya region is home to two brand-new all-inclusive resorts, designed with meetings and incentives in mind and the Caribbean Sea as the backdrop.

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Cost Savings for Corporate Meetings, Incentive Travel, and Channel Incentives

Brightspot Incentive Events

If lead time is short and hotel occupancy is high, then hotel revenue managers know that the remaining rooms can be sold to last-minute corporate bookings at full rate. Advance bookings for hotels are cheaper. Another tip is to be flexible with the meeting “pattern,” meaning the days of the week.

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Sky-High Airfares Plus Delays Mean Fewer Attendees, Say Planners

MeetingsNet

For incentives, winners who book early are "losing out” because winners who book later may have to come in early or stay late, or they get a premium seat because that is all that is left.”. percent said they are doing so. Ancillary costs associated with the air-travel situation are affecting our budget.

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2024 Outlook and To-Do’s for Meetings, Incentive Travel, and Sales Incentives

Brightspot Incentive Events

Brightspot aligned with the Incentive Research Foundation think tank this year and sponsored The IRF 2024 Trends Report [add link when published]. Not surprisingly, many predictions align, and our list here is split across segments of corporate meetings, incentive travel, channel incentives, and sales contests.