Category: Viewpoints
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Plus ça change: notes from the DMC business, 1994 to now
Read more: Plus ça change: notes from the DMC business, 1994 to nowby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting When Pat and I started Delaney Marketing Consultants (DMC, for short!), one of our main competitors still wrote out RFP responses in longhand and snail-mailed them to the client. It sounds like something…
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Why travel if you aren’t going to get a little lost?
Read more: Why travel if you aren’t going to get a little lost?by Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting | Research & Consulting, SITE The title of this post is liberated from America: The Jesuit Review, an online platform covering matters of faith. The headline delighted me, because it called out directly…
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Blind Tasting the RFP: Why Incentive Proposals All Taste the Same (And How to Fix That)
Read more: Blind Tasting the RFP: Why Incentive Proposals All Taste the Same (And How to Fix That)by Pádraic Gilligan, Research & Consultancy, SITE | Founder, SoolNua Consulting Thanks to the partnership with MPI, SITE has the opportunity to include a question or two in ongoing surveys that MPI conducts amongst its extensive community of meetings…
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What Is a DMC Worth? The Question SITE Just Asked Nearly 300 People
Read more: What Is a DMC Worth? The Question SITE Just Asked Nearly 300 Peopleby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting Destination Management Companies or Consultants, depending on how you prefer to unpack the acronym, along with incentive houses and agencies, are the indispensable, iconic and frankly irreplaceable elements in the incentive travel supply…
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Dare to Design: Rethinking the real meaning of the darecation
Read more: Dare to Design: Rethinking the real meaning of the darecationby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua Consulting I hate “bleisure”. I have no problem whatsoever with what it describes — the blending of business and leisure elements in a single trip — but the sound of the word, and the…
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HOW worried SHOULD WE BE for our industry?
Read more: HOW worried SHOULD WE BE for our industry?by Padraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting In the last six years alone we’ve had Covid, Ukraine, Israel, tariffs, Venezuela, Greenland and now Iran. Layer onto that the existential debates around climate and AI and you begin to understand why…
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Same Bathroom, Different City: In Praise of the Global Chain Hotel.
Read more: Same Bathroom, Different City: In Praise of the Global Chain Hotel.by Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua As a regular traveller, I certainly appreciate the predictability of a global chain hotel. Airport The benefits of choosing a universally recognised brand actually commence at the airport when you ask your driver to…
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The real Acronym that might Reshape Incentive Travel is Hiding in Plain Sight
Read more: The real Acronym that might Reshape Incentive Travel is Hiding in Plain Sightby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua Consulting & Head of Research & Consultancy, SITE A Different Kind of Disruption Let’s talk about acronyms. Not the one you’re thinking of, though God knows we’ve talked about that enough. Every conference panel,…
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From Bar Tabs to Billions: A MOdest Plea for PERSPECTIVE
Read more: From Bar Tabs to Billions: A MOdest Plea for PERSPECTIVEby Padraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua A Confession Let me begin with a confession. I read Arthur Beesley’s recent piece (Thursday, 29 January) in The Irish Times with a sharp intake of breath, a raised eyebrow, and that familiar Irish…
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5 KEY QUESTIONS FOR 2026 for INCENTIVE TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS
Read more: 5 KEY QUESTIONS FOR 2026 for INCENTIVE TRAVEL PROFESSIONALSby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting | Head of Research & Consultancy, SITE In 1915 Nobel prize winning poet, W. B. Yeats published his poem “Ego Dominus Tuus” opening with these lines: I sought a theme and sought for…
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