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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.

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Top Business Travel Trends Coming in 2024

Smart Meetings

Maybe a hybrid board travels to one member’s city of residence for a meeting and team building; maybe, with increased numbers of remote workers, meeting attendance drops as the option to attend remotely becomes more available—how do meeting planners then incentivize attendees to show up in person? Is incentive travel out?

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2024 Outlook and To-Do’s for Meetings, Incentive Travel, and Sales Incentives

Brightspot Incentive Events

Brightspot aligned with the Incentive Research Foundation think tank this year and sponsored The IRF 2024 Trends Report [add link when published]. Not surprisingly, many predictions align, and our list here is split across segments of corporate meetings, incentive travel, channel incentives, and sales contests.

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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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New Rules for Planning a Corporate Meeting in Cuba in 2019

Smart Meetings

Rules are changing again for event professionals following in the literary footsteps of Ernest Hemingway to Cuba for a corporate meeting. The category listed for planners and groups is “professional meetings.” The post New Rules for Planning a Corporate Meeting in Cuba in 2019 appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Moves in Monterey, Seattle and More

Smart Meetings

With over 20 years of experience in the industry, and as a local for many years, she will support the tourism board’s multifaceted strategy to drive corporate meetings and event business to hotels and hospitality partners throughout Monterey. She most recently served as incentive group senior director at Opus Agency.

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4 Reasons to Take Your Groups to Walt Disney World Now

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings joined the Disney Meetings and Events team in July on a three-day FAM trip at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, and witnessed firsthand the perks that bring incentive groups and corporate meetings to life, even (and especially) during a pandemic. Bleisure travel is HOT right now.