Event Support & Subvention Programs

This infographic illustrates event support and subvention programs used as advanced marketing tools to attract international conventions and incentive groups to a destination. Click here to download the infographic.

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Universal Accessibility in Meetings

This infographic illustrates findings from the research study “Universal Accessibility in Meetings”, conducted by GainingEdge, in collaboration with project partners BestCities Global Alliance (BestCities) and Rehabilitation International (RI Global). Click here to download the infographic.

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Competitive Index

This infographic illustrates the methodology behind the Destination Competitive Index, its practical applications, and the components that make up each annual report. Click here to download the infographic. Learn More About the Competitive Index

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Business and Professional Events: Change Agents or Travel Agents?

Gary Grimmer from GainingEdge and Gregg Talley, President and CEO of Talley Management Group, Inc., discuss how associations are vital to the knowledge economy, the culture of lifelong learning, and much more. By Fred Productions Ltd.

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Business Events Insights and Predictions

World renowned experts weigh in on the questions that matter in a special series “Business Events Insights and Predictions”. In this video, Gary Grimmer, CEO of GainingEdge shares his expertise on business events as catalysts for growing knowledge and creative economies.

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Clearing the Confusion: Definitions of Legacy

During MeetDenmark 2018, GainingEdge, began a major project on legacy in collaboration with consultancy and partner Iceberg. The study involved desk research on fifty international associations and fifty destinations as well as interviews with twenty from each of the two groups. In this video, GainingEdge Chairman Gary Grimmer talks about our understanding of legacy through… Continue reading Clearing the Confusion: Definitions of Legacy

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Nurturing your Future Talent

All of us can do with ‘good help.’ Jane Vong Holmes spills the beans in her 60 seconds take.

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DMO Funding – a New Frontier?

At a recent international conference, I stood in front of a room full of people from convention bureaus and asked them to raise their hands if they had more money than they needed. Yes, the question was rhetorical and while a communal chuckle went up, no hands did. Had I asked that question in the… Continue reading DMO Funding – a New Frontier?

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