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 2026-07-30. Recomputed on live data.

#DestinationCountryFare from AMSScorevs global
1LisbonPortugal$32086.91
2DubrovnikCroatia$34084.98
3Iceland (Reykjavik)Iceland$36083.83
4PortoPortugal$32083.87
5BaliIndonesia$1,01083.22
6AthensGreece$35083.06
7AlgarvePortugal$35081.620
8MadridSpain$30080.812
9TokyoJapan$1,03080.75
10BarcelonaSpain$26080.512
11BudapestHungary$27080.417
12KotorMontenegro$36080.034
13ViennaAustria$25079.418
14KyotoJapan$1,05079.15
15PragueCzechia$22079.019
16BangkokThailand$80078.911
17MallorcaSpain$32078.724
18DubaiUnited Arab Emirates$59078.62
19PhuketThailand$87078.32
20Riviera Maya & CancúnMexico$76078.119
21Da NangVietnam$87078.12
22Hoi An (Vietnam)Vietnam$87077.74
23SeoulSouth Korea$95077.510
24Cape TownSouth Africa$1,04077.311
25DublinIreland$20077.117
26Tirana (Albania)Albania$35077.130
27Lake BledSlovenia$29076.742
28CopenhagenDenmark$20076.617
29ParisFrance$19076.411
30AmsterdamNetherlands$12076.417
31Norwegian Fjords (Bergen)Norway$28076.232
32Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates$59076.01
33RomeItaly$27075.916
34Riyadh & Diriyah (Saudi Arabia)Saudi Arabia$58075.89
35LondonUnited Kingdom$17075.89
36French Riviera (Nice)France$27075.822
37SingaporeSingapore$90075.718
38EdinburghUnited Kingdom$22075.524
39TulumMexico$83075.432
40Costa Rica (Guanacaste)Costa Rica$92075.426
41Taormina (Sicily)Italy$37075.426
42Kuala LumpurMalaysia$81075.117
43DohaQatar$61075.07
44Los CabosMexico$94074.836
45Buenos AiresArgentina$1,12074.713
46Lake ComoItaly$23074.029
47Mexico CityMexico$75073.832
48Tuscany (Florence)Italy$29073.830
49MuscatOman$67073.712
50MarrakechMorocco$49073.721

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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