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This recently released survey from Development Counsellors International gives the inside scoop from Canadian and US meeting planners on what makes an international destination marketable for groups. The study was done mid-year and compares answers from a previous one done in 2012. Here are some insights from both corporate and association planners.
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Face to Face
This is the best way to influence a meeting planner about a new destination. Whether this interaction happened at a trade show, a workshop or industry event or meeting, the personal touch wins out hands down as a means of influence. Meetings with destination personnel, such as convention visitor bureaus, business or personal travel and talking with peers are the top three sources of information about destinations. If they read information, despite the reality of our virtual world, 65 per cent of respondents still like reading the hard copy of a magazine. |
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Fab Fams
A whopping 88 per cent of respondents say educational trips are the best way to sway a meeting planner's perception of a destination. According to the survey, the summer is the best time to entice planners for a visit. |
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Make or Break
The cost of hotel accommodations and flight accessibility to a destination are the top considerations for choosing a destination, followed by the "wow" factor for a city and safety and security. |
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Best and Worst
Surprisingly, some destinations made both the best and worst lists as a meeting destination. Paris tops the list as the best meeting destination, but also as one of the worst, with high costs, frequent labour strikes and non-friendly citizens, detracting from its international allure. Safety and security were the reasons destinations like Russia and the Middle East were avoided. |
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Top Shows
Vegas in the fall will be the place to be for the foreseeable future, as IMEX America got the highest attendance rate of industry trade shows. Corporate planners are more likely to attend shows like IMEX and IBTM than their association colleagues, who favour PCMA's Convening Leaders event. |
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Editor's Choice
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Maple Magic
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Good to know
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MEETINGS + EVENTS
Industrial Magic
Here's an interesting educational session from the ISES Toronto chapter, about how to incorporate special effect elements into events. This is your chance to learn the proper terminology, how to work with a special effects supplier and where and when to include them in a program. Mark Fine, the owner of AirMagic has grown from a boutique company in a basement in Little Italy to a full service special effects provider. He also teaches special effect seminars at Ryerson University and Humber College and works with the Explosive Regulatory Division in the pyrotechnic and fireworks certification program.
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CORPORATE TRAVEL MANAGEMENT
Productive Flight Time
This blog outlines five tips that help to improve in-flight productivity if you need to get something done enroute. Among them, get a window seat for increased focus, make sure you have a set of noise-cancelling headphones, and be realistic about what you can accomplish knowing that take-off and landings eat up considerable chunks of productive time. If you take a few moments to consider what you will work on, you can make sure you have everything handy in your take-on luggage to get tasks accomplished. The article also has a handy list of Wi-Fi offerings on popular airlines.
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INCENTIVES + REWARDS
Another Win for SITE Canada
SITE Canada returned from the SITE Global Conference held last week in New Delhi, India with a seventh consecutive Chapter win—this year for Educational Excellence—and news that Jennifer Glynn, principle with Meeting Encore and past president of SITE Canada, has been elected to the SITE Global International board of directors for a two-year term. Glynn will be working on the educational portfolio.
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