What We Build
Three formats. One operator. Twenty years of relationships.
Meetings that change the room. Incentive trips your top performers compete to earn. Events designed end to end. The line between them blurs in practice, and that is the point.
The CDV Model
One model. Three labels for how groups buy it.
The corporate travel industry sorts programs into neat categories - meetings, incentives, events - because procurement departments think that way. We do not. Every CDV program is designed from scratch around a team and a desired outcome, then labeled afterwards with whatever category fits the budget line. What we actually build is the same thing every time: small groups, real access, direct relationships, and a measurable arc of transformation.
The Formats
Three ways your procurement team can buy it.
Meetings & Retreats
Executive retreats and leadership offsites at venues where the room itself does half the work. Sixteenth-century villas, working quintas, waterfront masserias - private spaces with AV infrastructure, cultural programming, and direct access to the families who run them.
- ✓8 to 30 people, residential or day format
- ✓Plenary + breakout space with natural light, no hotel ballrooms
- ✓Optional Meridian psychometric measurement, baseline to 18 months
Incentive Trips
Incentive programs your top performers will compete to earn again. Five to ten days designed around real access - a truffle hunt with a third-generation hunter, a yacht charter through the Dalmatian islands, a private blending session in a Mendoza cellar. The kind of experiences nobody else can sell because nobody else has the relationships.
- ✓10 to 80 winners and partners, full residential program
- ✓Direct access experiences that cannot be booked on a website
- ✓Meridian retention tracking proves the ROI to your CFO
Events & Groups
Custom events designed end to end. Product launches in private villas, client appreciation dinners on a chartered yacht, milestone celebrations on a rooftop with live music, team-building harvests on a working quinta. We build what does not exist in any catalog because the catalog programs are the reason your team comes back unchanged.
- ✓Single-night dinners through multi-day group programs
- ✓Production partners for staging, broadcast, and AV when you need them
- ✓10 to 80 people in our sweet spot, sometimes more for the right brief
What Stays the Same
The four things that do not change between formats.
Whatever label your procurement team uses, every CDV program is built on the same four principles. If any of them sound like what your team has been missing from the meetings, incentives, or events you have run before, we should talk.
Direct, not subcontracted
We are the local operator. Our staff live in every destination. The family cooking your dinner has cooked for CDV groups for fifteen years. No DMC middle-layer.
Small groups, deliberately
Most programs run with 8 to 30 people. The intimacy is the product - it is what makes a tango lesson in a porteño's home or a peka under the iron bell on a Croatian island feel like the real thing instead of a tourist beat.
Built around your objective
Every program starts with a 30-minute discovery call. We will tell you honestly if CDV is the right fit, what it will cost, and what it will not deliver. No template proposals.
Measured, when it matters
Meridian, our proprietary psychometric platform, baselines a team before departure and tracks them at 30, 90, and up to 18 months after. Optional, but it is the only reason your CFO will sign off again next year.
The Crossover Format
A private yacht in Croatia is all three formats at once.
A working session in the morning on the upper deck. Snorkeling a private cove at midday. A peka dinner ashore on Vis that no commercial broker can book. The yacht charter is the clearest single example of how the categories collapse: it is a meeting, an incentive, and an event in the same week. It is also the single most requested program format we offer.
Explore the YachtSix countries. One operator on the ground in each.
We do not source from local DMCs - we are the local operator. Twenty years of direct relationships in every destination we run programs in.
Experiences - Common Questions
Ready to figure out which format fits your team?
Tell us what you are trying to accomplish. We will tell you honestly which format makes sense, and whether CDV is the right operator for it.