Research and Data

For the second year in a row, this report includes the summary of proprietary data collected and analyzed in a joint effort by the teams at Fired Up! Culture and SearchWide Global. 

We aim to provide destination leaders across the industry with actionable insights, backed by data, detailing why “30 Under 30” honorees leave destination organizations and what organizations must do to keep their emerging talent. These insights should guide strategic initiatives, as a greater focus on culture and engagement in the workplace becomes a foundational part of the executive strategy conversation.

We aim to provide current leaders around the destination marketing industry with actionable insights, backed by data, detailing why “30 Under 30” honorees leave destination organizations and what organizations must do to keep their emerging talent. These insights should guide strategic initiatives, as a greater focus on culture and engagement in the workplace becomes a foundational part of the executive strategy conversation.

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Sports ETA and SearchWide Global partnered to release the “2023 Sports Destination Leaders Salary, Compensation and Benefits Report” led by researchers from Stoll Strategies, sponsored by the Northstar Meetings Group.

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In 2021, the Gig Study: Rethinking the Recovery focused on what post-covid talent management looked like and how to reduce the talent gap.

The overall feedback was overwhelmingly positive, so we decided to make it our mission to provide the most accurate report available on a regular basis.

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Strategic Solution Partners (SSP) has teamed up with SearchWide Global (SWG), and SalesBoost to survey a steadily changing hospitality landscape as it pertains to talent and the Gig Economy. The original Gig Econony study, conducted in 2019, found executives had begun using external resources to close the leadership and management talent gap.

The findings were so profound, we decided to continue our research and do it again.

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