Study: Improved Economy Equals More Incentives

The economy is improving — and the health of the incentive industry appears to improving with it, according to the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), which recently released the results of its latest “Pulse Survey,” showing a 13-point increase (56 percent compared to 43 percent six months ago) in the number of incentive planners, suppliers and buyers reporting a “positive impact” of the economy on their ability to plan and implement incentive travel programs.

According to IRF’s spring 2013 poll, the vast majority of incentive professionals (82 percent) expect incentive travel budgets to stay the same or increase in 2013, “painting a much rosier picture of an industry that has suffered its share of slings and arrows over the past five years.”

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