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Incentive Travel 2025: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Smart Meetings

Why free time, authenticity and immersion are redefining program inclusions What are the latest trends emerging for incentive travel 2025 and beyond? Since attendees are trending towards more free time, 52% of participants chose reduced activities, and 50% chose reduced gifting to save on budgets.

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Smart Travel: Latest Sailing Trends, New Data Reveals Best U.S. Airports, United Partners with Turo and More

Smart Meetings

Dream Yacht Worldwide Shares Trends, 2025 Predictions Dream Yacht Worldwide (DYW) says its research reveals that early bookings, short-haul vacations and destinations beyond the Caribbean are among the top travel and sailing trends of 2024. The post Smart Travel: Latest Sailing Trends, New Data Reveals Best U.S.

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2025 Travel Trends – And How To Deliver On Them

Dana Communications

You know you can count on us to share THE travel trends worth unpacking every year. While none of our 2024 predictions should fall off your radar (because they’re still very much on-trend!), We’re also identifying who’s already tackling them well and how you can deliver on these trends for travelers. Who’s already doing it well?

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Focus on Sustainability: Marriott Bonvoy Events Embrace Innovative Practices in Meetings and Events

Smart Meetings

Sustainability in hospitality is no longer a trend but rather a foundational set of practices, including for Marriott Bonvoy Events. Below are some of the top trends in events that we are seeing on the ground at Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio of hotels and resorts throughout the country.

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Refract Seattle: The Power of Connecting Events to Local Community

Smart Meetings

Read More: You Should Go Here: 3 Travel Trends to Woo Attendees Bringing Your Attendees to Refract Seattle Another, more involved option, is to directly plan offsites. Tell your attendees, “Hey, by the way, there’s this amazing glass arts festival going on when we’ll be in Seattle,” and point them in the right direction.

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Canadian Tariffs Triggering Reputation Tarnish for U.S. Destinations

Smart Meetings

Canada Visit California Global Managing Director in Canada Julie Goergas shared trends in Canada’s $4.3 Slow tourism is also trending as Italians look for authentic, community-based experiences like vineyard tours, cultural emersions in cities or treks in national parks. Smart Meetings was there and brought back this report.

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MPI Gears Up for EMEC 2025 in Türkiye

Smart Meetings

Holmgreen points out attendees should arrive in search of European trends and topics, saying, “The trends that are taking place in the States or the trends that are taking place in Latin America or in Canada don’t necessarily make their way to this event. It is inherently a European experience,” says Holmgreen.

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