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 2026-10-30. Recomputed on live data.

#DestinationCountryFare from AMSScorevs global
1LisbonPortugal$32071.5▲5
2AthensGreece$35070.7▲11
3PragueCzechia$22070.6▲18
4BudapestHungary$27070.5▲21
5ViennaAustria$25070.4▲13
6PortoPortugal$32070.4▲17
7DubrovnikCroatia$34070.2▲22
8BarcelonaSpain$26069.4▲8
9BangkokThailand$80069.3▼7
10MadridSpain$30068.8▲14
11Petra & Dead SeaJordan$59068.6▲17
12DublinIreland$20068.5▲18
13AlgarvePortugal$35068.2▲32
14GeirangerNorway$29068.2▲43
15KotorMontenegro$36067.8▲40
16ParisFrance$19067.6▲11
17PhuketThailand$87067.5▼9
18Kuala LumpurMalaysia$81067.4▼14
19AmsterdamNetherlands$12067.4▲14
20Norwegian Fjords (Bergen)Norway$28067.3▲30
21LondonUnited Kingdom$17067.2▲10
22RomeItaly$27066.9▲12
23BaliIndonesia$1,01066.7▼11
24Iceland (Reykjavik)Iceland$36066.7▲15
25TokyoJapan$1,03066.4▼22
26SingaporeSingapore$90065.9▼21
27CopenhagenDenmark$20065.9▲20
28MallorcaSpain$32065.7▲28
29Riviera Maya & CancúnMexico$76065.4▼28
30SeoulSouth Korea$95065.3▼16
31Lake BledSlovenia$29065.1▲37
32EdinburghUnited Kingdom$22065.0▲26
33Buenos AiresArgentina$1,12064.8▼7
34Da NangVietnam$87064.3▲7
35StockholmSweden$27064.1▲24
36DubaiUnited Arab Emirates$59063.8▼1
37Punta CanaDominican Republic$74063.6▼30
38Cape TownSouth Africa$1,04063.2▲23
39MarrakechMorocco$49063.2▲25
40KyotoJapan$1,05063.0▼4
41French Riviera (Nice)France$27062.8▲31
42Tuscany (Florence)Italy$29062.7▲28
43Hoi An (Vietnam)Vietnam$87062.5▲11
44NashvilleUnited States$79062.3▼33
45VancouverCanada$71062.3▼28
46Tirana (Albania)Albania$35062.3▲25
47Mexico CityMexico$75062.1▼38
48ScottsdaleUnited States$78062.0▼33
49Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates$59062.0▲4
50SydneyAustralia$1,51061.9▼12

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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