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New and Renovated: Resort Life, For Any Size Group

Smart Meetings

Discover Resort Getaways for Your Next Incentive, Small Meeting, or Conference Whether your meeting is large or small, these resorts are ready for you. The property has also refreshed its outdoor amenities with new deluxe cabanas and daybeds, new foliage and wood panel flooring.

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Smart Travel: Saudi Arabia MICE Industry Booms, American Airlines Shuts Down Group-Jumpers, $65 Billion Needed to Address Coastal and Marine Tourism Climate Issues

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Over 1,000 global MICE leaders, hosted by the Saudi Conventions & Exhibitions General Authority (SCEGA), will gather at Mohammed Bin Salman Nonprofit City (MISK) under the theme “Expanding Horizons” for plenary, panel discussions, innovation clusters and collaboration hubs.

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Can sustainability itself serve as the reward for incentive travel qualifiers?

Pádraic Gilligan

Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE In a recent session at IMEX Frankfurt, I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion with fellow business events professionals Irina Graf (The MICE Blog), Gregory Baur (Zurich Convention Bureau) and Marvin Zemp (Luzern Convention Bureau).

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Incentive Travel is alive and well … in 2021

SITE

We’ve been following up with some of the corporations on our panel and received this wonderfully inspiring email from one of them highlight how incentive travel is alive and well … “Just completed the survey and thank you for resending and allowing me to include my input. For now, I think we are 70/30 vaccinated/non.

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New and Renovated: New, New England

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Boutique incentives in your pick of New England port towns Up and down the coastline of New England, you’ll find historic port towns, where visitors go to enjoy the fresh sea breeze coupled with small town charm and rich history.

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GMID 2023: Looking Towards the Future

Smart Meetings

CST with a panel of industry leaders to discuss the most current trends and the effects they will have on the future of meetings. Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) will hold a session on the future of incentive travel, while Webex addresses the new reality of tighter budgets yet increasing numbers of attendees.

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Marriott’s ‘Meet with Momentum’ Creates Community Like None Other

Smart Meetings

Meet with Momentum Panel State at Meet with Momentum Bob Pfeffer, senior director at Marriott CRN, says, “We know that gaining knowledge is important. Multiple representatives on the panel advised planners to evaluate contracts more carefully than ever—don’t pre-assume anything as a given if it isn’t explicitly stated in the contract.

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