SITE Honors Top Programs, Members at Annual Conference in Istanbul

Crystal Award Winners
Member Winners
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The Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) honored nine companies with Crystal Awards during the association’s Global Conference Feb. 26-29, along with members and chapters for their contributions to the advancement of incentive travel excellence. Click here for details.
Crystal Award Winners
According to SITE CEO Annette Gregg, this year’s awards attracted a record number of entries. elevating the achievements of this year’s winning organizations. Receiving Crystal Awards this year are:
- Arabian Adventures Meetings, Incentives & Events, for Excellence in Incentive Travel: Africa & Middle East
- Haute, for Excellence in Incentive Travel: North America
- MFactor Meetings, for Excellence in Incentive Travel: Europe
- Next Level Performance, for Most Impactful Effort Toward Corporate Social Responsibility as Part of an Incentive Travel Program
- PHP Event Services, for Excellence in Incentive Travel: Asia-Pacific
- Portugal Travel Team, for Best Destination-Based Experiential Incentive Travel Program
- Spectra DMC, for Most Creative Solution Deployed to Overcome Adversity
- Streamlinevents, for Excellence in Incentive Travel: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Synergy Effect, for Excellence in Incentive Travel: Asia-Pacific
Member Winners
The following people and chapters were recognized for excellence.
- The Kevin Forde Spirit Award: Freddy Muller, Associate Vice President, Incentive Travel and Charters, Royal Caribbean Group
- Member of the Year Award: Victor Canizares, CEO, Spanish Heritage DMC
- Richard Ross Past Presidents’ Award: Ping Liu, Founder, China Star Ltd.
- Excellence in Education: SITE Australia & New Zealand
- Excellence in Young Leaders: SITE Chicago
- Excellence in Special Event: SITE Australia & New Zealand
- Excellence in Sustainable Event: SITE Florida & Caribbean
- Excellence in Membership: SITE Australia & New Zealand
- SITE Chapter of the Year: SITE Texas
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