The Destination Index — by departure city

The Best Incentive Travel Destinations from Amsterdam

The IncentiveTrips Destination Index re-ranked for programs departing Amsterdam (AMS). Fares are city-specific modeled ballparks — the published distance curve priced from AMS — and reachability draws from the Europe row; the four origin-independent pillars — momentum, safety, infrastructure, and planner fit — are unchanged. The global Index remains the canonical ranking; this is the same math, priced from Amsterdam.

Standings as of 2026-09-03. Recomputed on live data.

#DestinationCountryFare from AMSScorevs global
1DubrovnikCroatia$34076.510
2Norwegian Fjords (Bergen)Norway$28075.821
3LisbonPortugal$32075.53
4AthensGreece$35074.99
5PortoPortugal$32074.912
6KotorMontenegro$36074.829
7BudapestHungary$27073.819
8ViennaAustria$25073.417
9PragueCzechia$22073.420
10BarcelonaSpain$26073.19
11Iceland (Reykjavik)Iceland$36073.111
12MadridSpain$30073.09
13BangkokThailand$80072.711
14AlgarvePortugal$35072.726
15BaliIndonesia$1,01072.210
16Lake BledSlovenia$29071.641
17DublinIreland$20071.421
18PhuketThailand$87071.211
19Colorado Rockies (USA)United States$84070.916
20ParisFrance$19070.516
21AmsterdamNetherlands$12070.320
22TokyoJapan$1,03070.118
23Kuala LumpurMalaysia$81070.115
24LondonUnited Kingdom$17070.015
25MallorcaSpain$32069.927
26RomeItaly$27069.717
27Riviera Maya & CancúnMexico$76069.626
28EdinburghUnited Kingdom$22069.425
29SeoulSouth Korea$95069.314
30CopenhagenDenmark$20069.315
31SingaporeSingapore$90069.121
32Da NangVietnam$87069.05
33KyotoJapan$1,05068.42
34Tirana (Albania)Albania$35068.427
35Buenos AiresArgentina$1,12068.35
36DubaiUnited Arab Emirates$59068.33
37Hoi An (Vietnam)Vietnam$87068.15
38StockholmSweden$27067.022
39Punta CanaDominican Republic$74066.927
40Cape TownSouth Africa$1,04066.822
41MarrakechMorocco$49066.723
42Taormina (Sicily)Italy$37066.431
43Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates$59066.37
44Tuscany (Florence)Italy$29066.330
45Mexico CityMexico$75066.136
46NashvilleUnited States$79066.132
47Los CabosMexico$94065.831
48French Riviera (Nice)France$27065.731
49ScottsdaleUnited States$78065.329
50VancouverCanada$71065.326

Fares are modeled round-trip ballparks from Amsterdam (AMS), not live quotes. “vs global” is each destination's move against its position on the global Destination Index.

How this ranking works

Only the two pillars that genuinely depend on where attendees fly from are re-scored. Value shifts with the fare difference between the US-blend baseline and this origin; air access blends each destination's global nonstop coverage with a published origin-to-region reachability score. Both adjustments flow into the composite at the Index's published pillar weights — value 15%, air access 20%.

  • value_o = value + 20 · (fare_US − fare_origin) / max(fare_US, 300), capped ±20
  • air_o = 0.5 · air_access + 0.5 · reach(origin → region)
  • total_o = total + 0.15 · Δvalue + 0.20 · Δair
  • fare = $118 + 0.913 · d^0.75, anchored per destination
  • city fares: fare = ($118 + 0.9127 · d^0.75) × destination anchor, d = great-circle km from AMS

Fares come from a distance-based model anchored to each destination — modeled ballparks, not live quotes. Every input is published; no destination pays to be ranked. The global Destination Index is the canonical standing.

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