Q2 Sales Kickoff (SKO) destinations from Seattle

Maui, Hawaii

DeSilva DMC is a full-service destination management company based on Maui. Founded in 2003, it was one of the first two ADMEI-accredited DMCs in Hawaii. It manages local services for incentive, association and corporate groups of 50 to 3,000 guests, including off-property venues, themed events, Hawaiian team building, activities, travel staff, transportation, photo and video, gifts and dine-arounds.

Honolulu, Hawaii

MC&A has been a destination and event management company in Hawaii since 1983 and is headquartered in Honolulu. It runs corporate events, conferences and retreats across the islands, including multi-island programs, with special events and production, CSR and team building, curated tours, transportation logistics and culinary experiences. The company works with local cultural practitioners and builds conservation and community give-back into its events. It also operates in California, Las Vegas, Florida, Arizona and New Orleans.

Honolulu, Hawaii

MC&A has been a destination and event management company in Hawaii since 1983 and is headquartered in Honolulu. It runs corporate events, conferences and retreats across the islands, including multi-island programs, with special events and production, CSR and team building, curated tours, transportation logistics and culinary experiences. The company works with local cultural practitioners and builds conservation and community give-back into its events. It also operates in California, Las Vegas, Florida, Arizona and New Orleans.

San Diego, CA

Cue the Magic is a boutique corporate event studio in San Diego, founded in 2025 by Kelly McCleland, who leads it as founder and creative director. It plans events from strategy through on-site delivery: setting objectives and audience, designing the guest journey and programming, creative direction, communications, and running the room on the day. Its site lists customer events, sales meetings, workshops and trainings, leadership retreats, internal culture moments, and trade shows and conferences among the events it supports, and says it works with a select group of clients rather than at volume. It is based in San Diego and serves teams across the U.S.

Escondido, CA

GoGather is a full-service corporate event management agency based in Escondido, in San Diego County, co-founded in 2008 by Brian Kellerman (Partner & CEO) and Dave Wagner (Partner & President). It plans sales kickoffs, conferences, corporate meetings, and employee and channel-partner incentive trips, handling strategy, site selection, budgeting, vendor management, production and A/V, and on-site management. Its case studies include a 3,000-person, eight-division sales kickoff, a sales kickoff for more than 300 people in Puerto Rico, a franchise conference at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and a first user conference for an AI software company in San Francisco. According to its site, it works with Fortune 1000 companies in manufacturing, trucking and transportation, home services, construction and franchising, and has managed more than 1,000 events. It says clients get an online project plan and budget they can view anytime, plus KPI-setting and post-event reporting.

San Diego, CA

The Private Event Company is a female-owned San Diego event planner that specializes in group dining and evening events: corporate and client dinners, dine-arounds, restaurant buyouts, block parties and holiday parties. For groups in town for a conference, incentive trip or sales meeting, its destination management page describes handling the ground program, including group dinners, off-site evenings, transport, hotel coordination and excursions, with one dedicated contact. It says it works with more than 100 venues across the Gaslamp, Little Italy and Downtown, handles everything from 20-person dinners to 5,000-guest block parties, and charges no planning fee because the venues pay it. Case studies on its site include a 245-guest VIP dinner for the California Cattlemen's Association, a cocktail reception and group dinner for Marsh, dinners for Ryvu Therapeutics and AstraZeneca Brazil, and a Taco Bell brand activation.

Sonoma, CA

Quintana Events is a Sonoma event planning and design company founded in 2007 and led by Alex Quintana, its owner and creative director. Its corporate team plans retreats, remote team offsites, incentive trips, executive retreats and leadership summits, client appreciation experiences, holiday parties, team building and employee recognition events, acting as "an extension of your internal team by managing logistics, budgets, and production." Its services include venue sourcing and contract negotiation, hotel room blocks, travel and transportation, agendas, food and beverage, AV and production management, registration and branded gifting. It also plans galas, store and product launches, fashion events and sales meetings, and says it has worked with "brands as big as Bloomingdale's" for groups of 50 to 500. With Wine Country as its home base, it says it specializes in "destination-worthy retreats while producing corporate experiences nationwide." It is also an award-winning Northern California wedding planner, named 2025 Best Wedding Planner Northern California by California Wedding Day Magazine.