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Think Small, Win Big: How Hotels Can Lead the Small Meetings Revolution

Smart Meetings

Strategies for Attracting and Accommodating Smaller Meetings To effectively serve this emerging market, hotels need to adopt a combination of flexibility, personalization, and technological advancements. Use targeted advertising on digital platforms to reach small business owners and corporate planners.

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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.

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Top Business Travel Trends Coming in 2024

Smart Meetings

Digital nomads” and “work from anywhere” culture is changing the equation for meeting demand. With technology affording greater flexibility, professionals increasingly find themselves freed from traditional office confines, enabling them to work from diverse locations,” Harrison says. Is incentive travel out?

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Mindful Meetings for the Full Mind

Smart Meetings

The time has come for us to take proactive steps to address these challenges in the corporate meeting space. As a corporate meeting and event industry professional with over 25 years of experience, I have witnessed first-hand the negative impacts of work-related stress.

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Corporate Meetings vs. Incentive Trips: Key Differences in Planning

Brightspot Incentive Events

What are the Differences Between Planning a Corporate Meeting and an Incentive Trip? People outside of the hospitality industry often assume that planning meetings and incentive trips are one and the same and require the same skill sets with very little planning differences.

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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. When the meetings are over, and it’s time to relax in tropical paradise, your team will enjoy discounts on spa treatments and destination activities.

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

Brightspot Incentive Events

INCENTIVE TRAVEL. Meetings and conferences in Mexico enjoy a waiver of the 16% VAT (value-added tax). While legally, the 16% discount applies only to meetings, savvy planners can recategorize their incentive trips with minor tweaks to their event name and agenda without forcing top-selling winners to sit in a ballroom for 8 hours.