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Top Business Travel Trends Coming in 2024

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Public safety expert Frank Harrison, who serves as regional security director, Americas at World Travel Protection , predicts that three central trends will shape business travel in 2024: Remote work, a focus on sustainability and budget constraints. Remote Work & Bleisure Travel Remote work, once rare, has become commonplace.

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The Business of Events: How DMCs Elevate Corporate Meetings and Incentive Travel

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The Business of Events: How DMCs Elevate Corporate Meetings and Incentive Travel 12 June 2024 In today’s work culture, employees are looking for more than competitive pay. Incentive travel remains one of the most alluring perks for corporate employees across a wide variety of industries.

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HBR Report: Company Meetings Critical for Supporting Remote Workforces

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Specifically, 71 percent of the 425 survey respondents say that a primarily remote-work model can make employees feel disconnected from the organization. In fact, 83 percent say that they themselves have gained greater awareness and empathy toward coworkers and customers as a result of in-person interactions they had to travel for.

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Canada Calls: Event Planning Paradise

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Smart Meetings reached out to Laura Pallotta, regional vice president of sales and distribution of Canada Marriott International, who offered up some insights to the latest relevant travel trends for planners looking to sculpt an international experience. association customers. and European buyers,” says Pallotta.

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Urban Venues Seeing Return of Group Business

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We’re also seeing some ‘return to work’ celebration events, with companies looking to re-energize employees returning to an office environment after working remote for more than a year. We are primarily hosting hybrid meetings right now. of meeting space. We are booking small corporate meetings and associations for 2022.

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Boutique Hotels Riding Mid-Size Meeting Wave

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One of the long-tail effects of the pandemic could be a downsizing of average meeting attendee lists as some big events go hybrid and bring parts of their audience together in person while larger audiences access content online. of meeting space and 181 guest rooms) has luxurious credentials that date back to 1902.

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The Heart of Gathering: Lessons from the Fourth of July

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And the ways people gather for the Fourth can offer some surprising lessons around making business and corporate meetings that much more impactful. At a meeting, you need to get business done. But what makes meetings so special is that while that business is getting done, people are also making and strengthening their bonds.

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