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Smart Moves in Chicago, Arizona and More

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He will oversee product management, engineering, design and data strategy for PerformX, a SaaS-based incentive and recognition technology that helps to amplify business results. He will also oversee Rewarding You, One10’s global rewards catalog. Earlier, he served as hotel manager at the Roosevelt Hotel Seattle.

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Loyalty Points and the Death of Independent Hotels

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In 1960, 50% percent of all hotels in the United States were independent,” according to Jeff Low, CEO of Stash Hotel Rewards , a loyalty program for independent hotels. Read More : Independent Hotels Decline Due to Mergers, Funding Problems Low launched Stash Hotel Rewards 10 years ago with 80 hotels. Now, just 20% are independent.

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How BuzzCast Is Leveraging NFTs and Blockchain to Connect People—and You Can Too

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The virtual events platform BuzzCast uses blockchain integration in its core events platform to leverage non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to drive engagement through rewards and incentives. Reward people for being good citizens of a community,” suggested BuzzCast CEO and Co-Founder, Ryan Byrne. After a $4.3

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Why It’s Time to Get Serious About AI for Events

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“It is actually a tool that will get some of that ‘drag stuff’ out of the way to focus on the things that you really want to do, the reason you got into the events industry in the first place,” he explained at Smart Meetings Innovation Experience in Irving, Texas, last week. That is the threat,” he said. Never fear.

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IRF Highlighted the Humanity in the ‘Incentiverse’

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How AI and new demographics are changing incentive travel AI can help find relevant data and perhaps even write the first draft of an incentive program outline, but the level of personalization required to really motivate employees by rewarding them with experiences requires a human touch. You change lives,” he said. “It

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IHG Hotels & Resorts Celebrates 6,000-Hotel Milestone with Revamped Rewards Program

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IHG plans to continue their trend of growth with 1,800 hotels in development, a reinvention of IHG One Rewards and a new series of partnerships. Guests staying with one of IHG’s 17 brands are being treated to a completely renewed loyalty program—IHG One Rewards. IHG has even more in store for IHG One Rewards members.

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Wellness Experience in Arizona: Embrace the Challenges

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If there was ever anything to go all in on, ignore the negative voice in your head and go all in on you,” he counseled. I promise life is going to keep throwing challenges our way, but you will keep overcoming and life will reward you with unexpected gifts,” he concluded. Momentum is real. Similarly, Deborah G.,

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