2025: Navigating a Crossroads for the Event Industry: Boom, Stagnation, or Transformation
Explore the future of the event industry in 2025—will it boom, stagnate, or transform? Dive into key trends shaping the next chapter.
How Administrative Professionals Are Navigating New Responsibilities, Ways of Working, and the Future of Corporate Travel and Events
Since 2019, the world as we know it has changed drastically as everyone scrambled to move towards digitalisation.
U.S. Flight Cuts and the Shutdown: What Planners, Attendees, and Agencies Must Do Now
Deck: FAA flight cuts tied to the U.S. government shutdown are snarling business travel and forcing last-minute changes across the events industry. Here’s what we’re seeing on the ground—and the playbook we’re using to keep programs on track.
The Rise of the Values-Driven Traveller
The pattern we see across The DMC Collective’s client base—and echoed by industry research from the Incentive Research Foundation, the SITE Foundation and Oxford Economics—is simple: the trips that genuinely change behaviour are the ones that reflect participants’ values.
Berlin, unscripted: why small meetings find their edge here
Small is not a constraint here; it’s the lens that brings the city into focus. When groups are small enough to move on foot and claim keys after hours, Berlin joins your team.
Events 2050: Stop Optimising Yesterday, Start Prototyping Tomorrow
Your turn — let’s open this up for debate:
When you map your own events on the Event Futures Map, which will you tackle first — the pulls that inspire you, the pushes that pressure you, or the weights you need to drop?
And when we look back from 2050, what will we wish we’d started prototyping today?
Beyond offsites: leadership retreats that train the nervous system (not just the agenda)
The most effective leadership retreats now train the nervous system as deliberately as the agenda — blending mindful action, physical reset and focused strategy so that what happens in the room moves the business the week after.
Why Are Office Parties Still Inside Four Walls?
The best parties don’t shout. They invite. They make room for different speeds, different bodies, different comfort zones—and they let the place itself do some of the hosting. So ask again: why are our office parties still inside four walls? If you can’t find a persuasive answer, step outside and let Europe help you host.
Corporate Ski Incentives 2026: The Expert Guide to Resorts, Meetings & Spa
Ski incentives are booming for 2026—uniting productive challenge with relaxation, team bonding, fresh air and unforgettable moments. From boutique leadership retreats to 150-guest celebrations, discover why the mountains inspire connection, performance and renewed energy.
The 2026 APAC MICE Hot List: Ten Power Destinations for Meetings & Incentives
If meetings are where strategy becomes behaviour, then place is the quiet co-author. In 2026, the question isn’t “Where can we fit everyone?”—it’s “Where will this gathering change what people do next?”
The Event Industry Outlook 2026: 7 Shifts You Can’t Ignore
By 2026, the best events will feel less like campaigns and more like products—designed for outcomes, audited with data, and portable across cultures. Whether you’re planning in the UK, Singapore, Germany, Japan or Australia, the mandate is identical: prove outcomes, not opulence. The rest is theatre.
Above and Beyond: The Short Flight That Redefines Incentive Travel
This is the next evolution of luxury incentive travel — a short, serene ascent to the edge of space, curated by The DMC Collective in partnership with a pioneering stratospheric hospitality operator. A journey measured not in distance but in perspective; the emotional heart of a leadership retreat, executive offsite, or elite reward programme for top performers.