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“The worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings and events in Frankfurt, has been the perfect place for us to meet thousands of influential event and meetings buyers face-to-face and to show them the opportunities in Saudi Arabia and many superb facilities that we could offer them,” says Tariq A. Al-Essa, Executive Director of the Saudi Exhibition and Convention Bureau.

“Over the last 18 months, we’ve been seeing a really encouraging uptick,” said Alison Taylor, senior vice president of global sales at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, which has had an approximately 12 percent increase, year-over-year, in reward and incentive travel, including retreats.

Travel Association, a trade group, business travelers spent $105.4 billion on meeting, event and incentive travel.

It was a dinner recognizing the high achieving participants in the largest Chinese incentive travel group to ever visit the US. 

As I pointed out in my book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, brokerage Edward James promises recruits that "excelling here doesn't require a finance degree or a financial background" since, after all, brokers have "unlimited earning potential" as a result of "commissions based on sales" not to mention "incentive travel opportunities."