How to Choose the Best DMC for Incentive Travel in 2027

How to Choose the Best DMC for Incentive Travel in 2027

Here’s the problem with searching “best DMC for incentive travel programs”: every result on page one is a DMC telling you it’s the best. None of them hand you a way to actually compare one against another. So let’s fix that. What follows...
President’s Club Budget Guide: Real Numbers for 2027

President’s Club Budget Guide: Real Numbers for 2027

The single most useful thing to know before you build a President’s Club budget: the per-person numbers you’ll find online aren’t wrong, they’re measuring different things. One page says $2,400, the next says $6,000, a third whispers $20,000....
Incentive Travel RFP Template: The 2027 Operator’s Guide

Incentive Travel RFP Template: The 2027 Operator’s Guide

Most of the incentive travel RFP templates floating around the internet were built for meetings. Six sections, a budget line, an evaluation paragraph, done. That’s fine if you’re sourcing a sales training for 80 people in Dallas. It’s not fine if...
President’s Club Tax Implications: The 2027 Operator’s Guide

President’s Club Tax Implications: The 2027 Operator’s Guide

Your top rep just qualified for a five-night President’s Club trip to the Four Seasons Punta Mita. Retail value: $15,000. She is thrilled until February, when her January paystub lands $3,300 lighter than she expected, and she emails the VP of Sales asking if...
President’s Club Cost Per Person 2027: The Operator’s Forecast

President’s Club Cost Per Person 2027: The Operator’s Forecast

Most articles ranking for this keyword quote a $4,000 to $20,000 per-person range and call it a day. That range is so wide it’s actively useless if you’re trying to size a 2027 program for 180 reps and a CFO who wants a number by Friday. Here is the...
How to Plan a President’s Club: The 2027 Operator’s Guide

How to Plan a President’s Club: The 2027 Operator’s Guide

The first President’s Club I helped rescue had a $1.2M budget, a beachfront resort under contract, and a CFO who had just realized, eight weeks out, that the company owed roughly $180,000 in payroll tax gross-ups nobody had modeled. The trip happened. It was...