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Behind the Scenes of Incentive Travel

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Looking into the desires of incentive travel attendees The term “incentive travel” is full of positive associations: Taking a trip abroad, creating memories with favored colleagues or exploring a culture you never would have otherwise. Among most regions, excluding Asia/Pacific, the No.

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IRF Invitational Went All-in on Incentive Event Personalization

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When more than 500 experts in the art of using travel to motivate performance met in the Bahamas at Baha Mar for Incentive Research Foundation’s Invitational 2024 , it was personal—as in attendees were surprised with celebrations of anniversaries, birthdays and special occasions gleaned from a pre-event survey and some judicious Facebook stalking.

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Industry Leader Steve O’Malley Predicts the Future of ‘Noble’ Hospitality Work

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When Smart Meetings met with him after the lights had turned off and asked about his more than 34 years at Maritz, his roots in the hospitality industry and expansive volunteer roles with MPI and SITE, O’Malley said, “Humility is just the ability to look back and understand how lucky you are. My career was a series of fortunate events.”

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Leading Hospitality, Travel and Events Orgs Are Investing in the Next Generation of Talent

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After a quiet two years on the events, hospitality and tourism fronts, an experience-driven, diversity, equity and inclusion-devoted (DEI) next generation of talent is pouring through open doors, looking for opportunities to break into the industry. Academic Access to Events and Hospitality Grows. Events Is Taking Interns.

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MICE Planning Techniques for Incentive Travel Professionals

Traveler's Q

This can be quite challenging as you work with many others in the hospitality and event planning industry and there are many moving parts. The post MICE Planning Techniques for Incentive Travel Professionals appeared first on Traveler's Q.

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Employee Drought Threatens Hospitality Reopening

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Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management , says top executives from major brands are calling him to personally interview college students because they are desperate for employees to clean rooms and check people in. Her company is “doing whatever it takes” to hire hundreds of people each week for hospitality clients.

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SITE Classic Demonstrated Gen Z-worthy Incentive Trends

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There is both an art and a science to designing and executing effective incentive travel programs that motivate employees. A sneak peek at the Incentive Travel Industry Index being released at IMEX by SITE Foundation, FICP and The IRF showed that the recovery in incentive events is already underway. Lesson No.