We might not be travelling right now due to the global coronavirus pandemic, but we’re still in need of inspiration for our future events and incentives. So we thought it was the perfect time to share our list of emerging off-the-beaten track destinations from our recent inVOYAGE Annual Report.

With luxury travel temporarily on hold, it’s great to see how our inVOYAGERs are working hard behind the scenes to bring luxury experiences to guests and travellers confined to their own homes during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

As part of our recently published inVOYAGE Annual Report 2020, David Gould, CEO at CR Worldwide, contributed an article on the growing focus on employee wellbeing by corporations in the UK and US markets. With the Covid-19 pandemic now having a huge impact on people’s working lives around the globe, the mental and physical wellbeing of the workforce is now more important than ever, and the trends discussed in this feature will be even more relevant once the crisis passes…

Luxury travel might not be an option right now, but that doesn’t stop you being able to live well and experience high-end brands like Belmond from the comfort of your own home. The luxury travel company has provided a taste of its experiences for people to enjoy at home, from soothing make-at-home spa recipes and games to entertain, to uplifting cocktails and transportive music…

At the start of the new decade, the future for the incentive travel industry looked incredibly bright. Not only did our own data show that luxury event professionals were seeing increased demand for incentives, but results from the 2019 Incentive Travel Industry Index, a joint research effort from SITE (the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence), IRF (the Incentive Research Foundation) and FICP (Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals), pointed to an uptick in incentive travel spend over the next few years.

This is a new and uncertain time for us all. Where no-one really knows what to expect one day to the next, not to mention what will be happening in a week or month’s time.

Since writing our top five challenges for luxury event planners feature back in January, everything has changed! Just a couple of months ago, managing budgets was the biggest challenge facing the sector, with safety and security coming in at fifth.

With sustainability increasingly high on the agenda for event and incentive planners, and the focus shifting to how events can positively benefit their host destination, the demand for luxury properties with strong eco creds is growing.

Luxury hotel brand Aman has announced a new wellness-oriented lifestyle brand called Janu.

If 2019 was an exciting year for new luxury openings, 2020 is shaping up to be even better. For the second consecutive year, we asked luxury event planners which new hotel openings they were most excited about for the year ahead, to create our annual inVOYAGE Luxury Hotel Hotlist.

A growing emphasis on the experience economy, reporting and analysis, managing risk, personalisation, and increasing demand for long haul destinations are among the key trends impacting the incentives industry this year, according to the newly released IRF (Incentive Research Foundation) 2020 Trends Report.

Upskilling escapes, dispersed hotels and conscience-free cuisine have been named top luxury travel trends to look out for in 2020 by Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH).

Greece looks set to be a top global incentive destination in 2020 along with the Bahamas and Costa Rica, while US cities will dominate for meetings and conferences, according to data released by Global DMC Partners (GDP).

We’re delighted to announce that we are kicking off our second annual survey on key trends in the luxury events sector, and we need your views!

At inVOYAGE 2019 in Monaco last month, Mintel travel analyst Marloes De Vries shared her top three luxury travel trends from the company’s latest research report, out this month. We caught up with Marloes to find out more about the research and what it means for the luxury events market…

It’s out with the old and in with the new! Following on from last week’s feature on the top five global destinations for events and incentives in 2020-21, this week we look at the most popular and unexpected emerging locations that are being requested by clients, according Ovation Global DMC.

Thanks to the combination of excellent infrastructures and rich cultural experiences, traditional European destinations maintain their status of favourite locations for incentives and events across the world, according to global DMC group Ovation. Based on the group’s recent data, here’s the top five global destinations planners will be booking over the next two years…