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 2026-09-15. Recomputed on live data.

#DestinationCountryFare from AMSScorevs global
1DubrovnikCroatia$34076.511
2Norwegian Fjords (Bergen)Norway$28075.819
3LisbonPortugal$32075.52
4AthensGreece$35074.99
5PortoPortugal$32074.912
6KotorMontenegro$36074.928
7BudapestHungary$27073.917
8ViennaAustria$25073.415
9PragueCzechia$22073.418
10MadridSpain$30073.09
11BarcelonaSpain$26073.09
12BangkokThailand$80072.810
13AlgarvePortugal$35072.726
14BaliIndonesia$1,01072.110
15Lake BledSlovenia$29071.640
16Iceland (Reykjavik)Iceland$36071.515
17DublinIreland$20071.520
18PhuketThailand$87071.412
19ParisFrance$19070.417
20Kuala LumpurMalaysia$81070.213
21AmsterdamNetherlands$12070.219
22TokyoJapan$1,03070.119
23LondonUnited Kingdom$17069.915
24MallorcaSpain$32069.827
25Riviera Maya & CancúnMexico$76069.724
26RomeItaly$27069.616
27SeoulSouth Korea$95069.313
28EdinburghUnited Kingdom$22069.325
29Da NangVietnam$87069.16
30CopenhagenDenmark$20069.118
31SingaporeSingapore$90069.022
32Buenos AiresArgentina$1,12068.57
33Tirana (Albania)Albania$35068.427
34KyotoJapan$1,05068.34
35Hoi An (Vietnam)Vietnam$87068.26
36DubaiUnited Arab Emirates$59068.03
37Punta CanaDominican Republic$74067.027
38Cape TownSouth Africa$1,04067.021
39StockholmSweden$27066.922
40MarrakechMorocco$49066.723
41Taormina (Sicily)Italy$37066.429
42Mexico CityMexico$75066.234
43NashvilleUnited States$79066.232
44Tuscany (Florence)Italy$29066.227
45Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates$59066.05
46Los CabosMexico$94065.831
47French Riviera (Nice)France$27065.728
48VancouverCanada$71065.426
49ScottsdaleUnited States$78065.331
50Swiss Alps (Zermatt)Switzerland$25065.223

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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