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

Blue Spark Event Design

The Client: An international skincare and makeup company with one internal meeting planner and a small support team who’s daily tasks focused not only on events, but also social media and public relations for the entire company. Meeting space management. Services we provided: Hotel sourcing. Rooming list management.

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Sky-High Airfares Plus Delays Mean Fewer Attendees, Say Planners

MeetingsNet

A new MeetingsNet survey finds nearly 70 percent of planners expect fewer attendees on site due to high airfares, while nearly 60 percent have narrowed their destination options due to potential air delays and cancellations. The other complicating factor for meetings is the potential for schedule changes along with delays and cancellations.

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The Inc. 5000 List Gives Insight into Meeting and Event Trends

MeetingsNet

A healthy number of meetings-industry companies made the list, and the rise of unique experience providers shows what your attendees are excited about. There are a healthy number of meeting and event planning companies on the list, check out the slideshow for a sampling of privately held companies with impressive growth rates.

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Inside the Incentive. A Focus on Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Blue Spark Event Design

While travel restrictions may be preventing us from actually visiting our favorite international cities, we’re taking a fond look at some of our favorite incentive destinations. For many in the northeastern US, it’s a half-day’s (or less) drive to the city center, or train ride to Gare central. Selecting a Hotel is Pretty Easy Too.

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Outsourcing Your Corporate Event Might Be the Best Decision You Ever Made.

Blue Spark Event Design

Corporate events are a great tool for incentivizing your sales team, training your employees, connecting with your clients, strategizing with your board members, building bonds between departments, levels, remote workers, etc. If you’ve successfully energized the sales force, how about planning an incentive trip to reward them?

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How To Select the Right Event Location for Your Corporate Event

Blue Spark Event Design

It can be overwhelming to planners when the executive team says, “Find the best location for our next event (insert also conference, incentive trip, board retreat, etc.)!”. Relevant: Sales increase by 1% from the sales professionals that win the incentive trip. Is it accessible by trains, air, car or by foot? Event Goals.

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Dariel Curren on the Benefits of EDO-DMO Collaboration and Smart Place Branding Initiatives for The Place Brand Observer

DCI

For the unfiltered outsider perspective for tourism brands, we survey past and potential visitors, as well as meeting planners, tour operators, airline executives and travel advisors. Their work resulted in thousands of inquiries from talent and spiked traffic in both Vermont’s tourism and economic development sites.