Category: Viewpoints
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Putting a Price on Intangibles: The Curious Case of the DMC
Read more: Putting a Price on Intangibles: The Curious Case of the DMCby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting The purchase of 360 Destination Group and CSI DMC by HIG Capital and their subsequent collective re-branding as Cohera continues to play on my mind, not least for the comments triggered by my…
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From Frontier to Forefront: APAC’s Ascent in the World of Incentive Travel
Read more: From Frontier to Forefront: APAC’s Ascent in the World of Incentive Travelby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua | Head of Research & Consultancy, SITE My great friend and SITE colleague in China, Raymond Qian, invited me to speak at a recent ITB China event about the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and…
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Great Hospitality Starts with Great Quality of Life: A European Response to Rafat Ali
Read more: Great Hospitality Starts with Great Quality of Life: A European Response to Rafat Aliby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua Consulting As founder of Skift, Rafat Ali, for many years, has been chronicling the travel and tourism sector with insider precision and sometimes outsider moral outrage, and in this latest piece, The Great American…
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The Article We Needed—But Not Quite the Story Incentive Travel Deserves
Read more: The Article We Needed—But Not Quite the Story Incentive Travel Deservesby Pádraic Gilligan, Head of Consultancy & Research, SITE | Co-founder, Soolnua Condé Nast Traveler recently published an article by Anna Silman titled “The Extravagant Rise of the Corporate Incentive Trip”. It’s a welcome and rare mainstream media foray…
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So Ryanair are now offering incentives?
Read more: So Ryanair are now offering incentives?By Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua & Research | Consultancy, SITE Michael O’Leary, never one to shy away from controversy, took to the airwaves recently to defend a Ryanair policy that pays ground staff a minuscule €1.50 bonus every time…
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Competition in Incentive Travel: Don’t be the person who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing
Read more: Competition in Incentive Travel: Don’t be the person who knows the price of everything but the value of nothingby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua | Research & Consultancy, SITE In his famous play Lady Windemere’s Fan, Irish playwright Oscar Wilde defines a cynic as a man who “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”. Wilde’s…
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Head in the Sand or Steady at the Helm? Business in an Age of Uncertainty
Read more: Head in the Sand or Steady at the Helm? Business in an Age of Uncertaintyby Pádraic Gilligan, Research & Consultancy, SITE and C–founder, SoolNua We’ve reached the midpoint of the year and one thing is clear: we’re no clearer as to what lies ahead for our world at large, the world of business,…
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Beyond Borders: How AI and Agility will Reshape Incentive Travel in 2025
Read more: Beyond Borders: How AI and Agility will Reshape Incentive Travel in 2025by Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua | Research & Consultancy, SITE Incentive Travel Index 2025 The 2025 Incentive Travel Index is now in the field and, based on recent findings from NorthStar Media’s Pulse survey, we’re seeing a marked shift…
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The Business Events Industry in Ireland loses a shining star: Sue Uda, RIP
Read more: The Business Events Industry in Ireland loses a shining star: Sue Uda, RIPby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, Soolnua Consulting & Research | Consultancy, SITE Sue Uda, who founded the Ireland Chapter of SITE in the late 1990s, has sadly passed away after a long illness. As the Irish saying goes, “Ní Bheidh…
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The New Geography of Incentive Travel: Regional Reset and Reasons for Hope
Read more: The New Geography of Incentive Travel: Regional Reset and Reasons for Hopeby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua & Research | Consultancy, SITE The mood music The mood music around global trade, and by extension, around business events, now sounds like Shostakovich’s or Rachmaninoff’s darkest, most tormented pieces. Or, to use a…
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