-
The Beginning
As a response of the desire for a custom group leisure activities , a new business was created, the ground operators They used to say ground handler, they prepare the ground for the plains before they arrived -
DMS as cointed in US
Cointed by phil Lee, founder of california Leisure , to describe the expaded role they played as a local logistics experts -
Coming of age
Several regional and national destination managment companies emerged, due to the expanding of meeting, convention and incentive travel industry -
Period: to
Recession
Lots of DMC were forced to cut their meeting budgets, because hotels, decorators where also offering these services -
Consolidation
Only the srongest survive survived because of new developents -
Globalization on the rise
The meetings industry has become much more complex, large meeting planning departments have been scaled down, it become more difficult to manage multiple suppliers