Here are four key takeaways from the 2025 SITE Global conference that every incentive travel professional should be aware of, from the importance of being future-focused to the current factors influencing destination selection and more.

Futurist Scott Steinberg’s take on the changing landscape of work, both for internal and external meeting environments, as companies implement return-to-office initiatives.

Despite the possibility of some gathering economic headwinds, good news is afoot in the corporate meetings segment, according to major industry studies published in the last six months.

Meetings Today's annual survey of meeting and event planners reveals interesting results on key issues. Featuring insights from meeting and event professionals, the Meetings Today editors and artificial intelligence.

The 2024 Business Events Consumer Demand Project is research conducted annually to understand the perception of Australia as a business events destination and ascertain an outlook for the international business events industry.  

The incentive travel segment has undergone a fairly radical transformation starting with the pandemic, when travel restrictions and outright shutdowns—especially to international destinations—caused a whole industry to reexamine itself or simply survive.

Here are some key insights, trends and best practices shared at Global DMC Partners’ 10th annual Connection, which addressed inflation rates, budgets and more meetings and events industry trends. 

According to Bizzabo, the average number of events increased by 52% in the first half of 2024, mostly due to the increase of smaller, field marketing events and the adoption of year-round event portfolios.

Inclusive food and beverage offerings and social responsibility initiatives drive some of the biggest shifts in IACC’s most-recent report, compared to results from 2020.