When an organization properly designs an incentive program, which includes looking at all departments which will be affected, rather than just the impact to the department that is sponsoring the incentive, the return on investment can be proven.
[2] And stated that in order to achieve the same effect of incentive travel, an employee’s total base compensation would need to be increased by 8.5%.
[2] The Incentive Research Foundation released a study in 2010 following the steps that an organization took to ensure that they received a return on their investment; they successfully merged acquired organizations into their company, and successfully merged their incentive programs.
[3] Incentive trips, meetings and events account for 15% of all travel spending, which creates 2.4 million jobs, $240 billion in spending and $39 billion in tax revenue, according to the U.S. Travel Association.
[5] The economic impact[clarification needed] and the AIG effect had negatively affected incentive travel programs in 2010, with spending on incentive travel being reduced.