Tag: Incentives
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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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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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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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Ambling Around London on a Saturday in Mid-November
Read more: Ambling Around London on a Saturday in Mid-Novemberby Pádraic Gilligan, co-founder, SoolNua Consulting Ambling around London on a Saturday in mid-November, I’m struck again by the odd, lingering consequences of Covid and climate change. We northern Europeans have lost the run of ourselves entirely, sipping expensive…
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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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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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Why incentive travel professionals should follow Irish farmers by adapting to, and adopting AI
Read more: Why incentive travel professionals should follow Irish farmers by adapting to, and adopting AIPádraic Gilligan, Chief Marketing Officer, SITE & Managing Partner, SoolNua AI is not new on the Wild Atlantic Way AI is not at all new in Ireland, at least not along the Wild Atlantic Way or in Ireland’s Hidden…
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Salzburg – much more than the Sound of Music
Read more: Salzburg – much more than the Sound of Musicby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I felt sorry for our hosts. Two years working on an event to bring some of the most powerful Professional Conference Organisers in the world to your city and there’s a deluge that…
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