The Destination Index — by departure city

The Best Incentive Travel Destinations from Dublin

The IncentiveTrips Destination Index re-ranked for programs departing Dublin (DUB). Fares are city-specific modeled ballparks — the published distance curve priced from DUB — 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 Dublin.

Standings as of 2026-09-15. Recomputed on live data.

#DestinationCountryFare from DUBScorevs global
1DubrovnikCroatia$41076.211
2Norwegian Fjords (Bergen)Norway$30075.719
3LisbonPortugal$30075.62
4PortoPortugal$30075.013
5AthensGreece$40074.78
6KotorMontenegro$44074.628
7BudapestHungary$34073.617
8MadridSpain$29073.111
9ViennaAustria$33073.114
10PragueCzechia$30073.117
11BarcelonaSpain$29072.99
12AlgarvePortugal$33072.827
13BangkokThailand$84072.711
14BaliIndonesia$1,04072.010
15DublinIreland$12071.922
16Iceland (Reykjavik)Iceland$31071.715
17Lake BledSlovenia$37071.438
18PhuketThailand$91071.312
19ParisFrance$24070.217
20Kuala LumpurMalaysia$85070.113
21Riviera Maya & CancúnMexico$72070.020
22TokyoJapan$1,05070.019
23LondonUnited Kingdom$19069.815
24AmsterdamNetherlands$21069.816
25MallorcaSpain$34069.726
26EdinburghUnited Kingdom$18069.527
27RomeItaly$33069.415
28SeoulSouth Korea$98069.214
29Da NangVietnam$91069.06
30SingaporeSingapore$94068.921
31CopenhagenDenmark$27068.817
32Buenos AiresArgentina$1,09068.67
33Tirana (Albania)Albania$42068.427
34KyotoJapan$1,07068.24
35Hoi An (Vietnam)Vietnam$91068.16
36DubaiUnited Arab Emirates$64067.93
37Punta CanaDominican Republic$70067.327
38Cape TownSouth Africa$1,06066.921
39StockholmSweden$32066.722
40MarrakechMorocco$48066.723
41Mexico CityMexico$71066.533
42NashvilleUnited States$73066.231
43Taormina (Sicily)Italy$43066.227
44Los CabosMexico$90066.129
45Tuscany (Florence)Italy$35066.026
46Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates$64065.94
47VancouverCanada$68065.625
48French Riviera (Nice)France$32065.627
49ScottsdaleUnited States$74065.331
50Swiss Alps (Zermatt)Switzerland$32065.023

Fares are modeled round-trip ballparks from Dublin (DUB), 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 DUB

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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