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All Signs Point to Growing Incentives & Meetings Business in 2025; You Can Still Reap the Benefits at Your Company

Motivation Excellence

Recent industry forecasts and surveys indicate corporate meetings, events and incentives will grow in 2025. According to the Incentive Travel Index 37% of respondents say 2025 levels will surpass 2024; 54% expect the spend-per-person to increase too. We’re excited to celebrate 40 years in the industry in 2025.

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Everything You Need To Know To Create Your Event Timeline

Endless Events

However, if you’re planning a corporate meeting, six months might be all you need. Open registration. Attendees should access registration forms easily, so make sure to make them pop! Big events with a high number of attendees might require up to a year to plan. What about virtual event timelines ? One Month Out.

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How To Create The Ultimate Event Layout Attendees Will Fall In Love With

Endless Events

And real quick, this is primarily skewed primarily to corporate conferences, corporate meetings, things like that. Obviously everyone comes to the event primarily, usually through registration or the front entranceway, right? But I think it’s going to make your event awesome. So let’s dive right on in.

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Top Business Travel Trends Coming in 2024

Smart Meetings

Just as evolving technology has transformed the possibilities of remote work, virtual meetings make frequent business trips and corporate meetings less necessary. Late registration, which has grown more common of late, may be a direct byproduct of digital nomads and realigned budgets.

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Lessons Learned from a Marathon SITE Fundraiser Showcase

Smart Meetings

We put it on our chapter calendars in February and launched registration 2 weeks prior, recognizing that with digital events this is when a majority register anyhow! This included brand new data from our Corporate inSITEs research with U.S. corporate meeting planners surveyed 2 weeks prior to this event. Lessons Learned.

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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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How to Choose Event Technology, Should Cost be the Main Factor?

Endless Events

Brandt explains, “when you’re dealing with registration services that are free or audience engagement platforms that are free or mobile apps that are free, you have to ask yourself, “How do they make their money?” It can be tempting to use free software to save your precious budget.