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.
Proof Before Place: How Event Planners Will Source Venues in 2026
Discover how event planners in 2026 will choose venues based on proof, data, and purpose before location. Explore the shift toward strategy-first sourcing and what it means for future events.
Don’t Book the Venue Yet: Define the Why, Then Design the Event
Before booking a venue, take a step back and define the true purpose of your event. Understanding the “why” gives direction to every decision—from the venue and theme to the guest experience. When you start with intention, you design not just an event, but a meaningful experience that resonates with your audience.
Stuttgart: The City That Whispers Excellence
Explore Stuttgart, Germany’s dynamic hub of innovation, design, and culture — a city where world-class engineering meets artistic flair. From precision automotive heritage to modern architecture and creative energy, Stuttgart embodies quiet excellence and refined craftsmanship. Wander through museums, gardens, and galleries that reflect its passion for progress and beauty.
Bilbao: Where Creativity Meets Basque Soul — Spain’s Secret Star for Corporate Events
Planning a 2026 program and want local eyes on your brief? Start a conversation with The DMC Collective at info@thedmccollective—they’ll sketch a no-cost, no-obligation destination game plan tailored to your agenda and audience.
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.