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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

Meetings, retreats and spurt incentive programs are all easy ways to inject some energy into the calendar year without necessarily needing a long planning period. From an executive retreat for 12 to a global sales meeting for hundreds, we can help you put it on the calendar sooner than you might expect.

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The Event-changing Magic of a Thoughtful Post-con

Smart Meetings

Founder Ilchi Lee, a Tao instructor and author of “ The Call of Sedona: Journey Of the Heart , ” in addition to 40 other titles, discovered the property in 1997 after the previous retreat center went into foreclosure and brought it back to life as a wellness destination.

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Summer 2024 Travel Trends with Meaning

Smart Meetings

This summer is looking at experiential travel—whether that be a relaxing health and wellness retreat, a culturally rich destination or an environmentally conscious and responsible gathering, summer 2024 trends are geared towards progressive practices.

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Business Travel Strikes Back, A New Company Culture Dawns

Smart Meetings

For instance, Salesforce introduced Trailblazer Ranch this February, a wooded California retreat designed to be an off-site for company gatherings. Expanding vendor deals to utilize spa facilities, wellness-based accommodation and better team training are good places to start. “On Travel also increases employee autonomy.

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Are Regenerative Meetings Even Possible? Ask Paso

Smart Meetings

Food & Wine called the region the “Wild West” when it comes to wine production because of the creative approach to growing and blending. Tablas Creek invests in employees by paying living wages with retirement benefits and ongoing training. Legend has it that the town was founded by Jesse James’ uncle in 1869.

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Success Story: An Incentive-style Executive Retreat, Sonoma Valley, California

Blue Spark Event Design

The Client’s Objective: Utilize a professional creative event agency to produce an incentive-style executive retreat offering multiple days of leadership training, bonding opportunities, and local and exclusive experiences in the selected destination. Audio-visual production. Services we provided: Hotel sourcing.

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Sign of the Times? GE Sells its Famed Training Facility

MeetingsNet

A private group of investors has purchased Crotonville, General Electric’s management-training facility for nearly 70 years, for $22 million and will operate the suburban New York venue as a conference center—which means that business groups can meet in the same spaces that legendary GE CEO Jack Welch educated his management teams.