While I love attending the IMEX America Show in Las Vegas each October, it’s tough for me to find the time to get to other educational conferences aimed at meeting, convention, trade show, and incentive-program planners. However, some of my colleagues will attend various industry shows, and then I get to pick their brains about […]
Read MoreAs a new year comes upon us, it’s a good time for each of us to step back and take in the big-picture perspective: What did each of us accomplish this year? What interesting experiences did we have? And what do we want to accomplish and experience in the coming year? What’s more, as we […]
Read MoreThere have been many studies done over the years showing that the perceived value of incentive travel programs to eligible employees—not just the employees who earn the travel award—is noticeably greater than what the program actually costs per employee. In other words, if you simply gave each winner an amount of cash equal to the […]
Read MoreWith all the interest in corporate social responsibility we have seen among our meeting and incentive clients recently, I wanted to learn a bit more about how CSR activities bring benefits not only to the community where they are performed, but also to the organization whose employees engage in a CSR activity. Fortunately, I did […]
Read MoreEarlier this year, the three organizations most deeply involved in the incentive-travel industry (SITE Foundation, Incentive Research Foundation, and Financial and Insurance Conference Planners) pooled their resources to have J.D. Power conduct research among 1,000 incentive-travel buyers. The results have just been released, so we now have detailed intelligence about the incentive buyer’s environment as […]
Read MoreOkay, so I’m posting this blog a bit late because last week was a blur. Why? Well, along with more than 13,000 other buyers and suppliers in the meeting, convention and incentive business, I attended the eighth annual IMEX America conference and exhibition in Las Vegas. My show experience consisted of three days of meeting […]
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