The Influencing the Magic Conference (formerly AWEsome Retreat) is an intimate, yet intense, educational conference for content creators and journalists in the travel and theme park niches.

Since 2019, we have been putting on events that help educate our attendees while also connecting with other creators, businesses, and partners. 

2024 has been a crazy year for bloggers, so the theme of our 2025 event is all about expanding our businesses, and finding ways to increase and diversify our income.

We will be covering topics such as syndication, pitching destinations for paid opportunities, and more! Additionally, we will have workshops with some of our speakers where they will help you hit the ground running. 2025 is the year we come back bigger and better… FORGET YOU GOOGLE! (Okay, well don’t forget Google, but let’s not let Google ruin our businesses.)


Our 2025 event will be one of our intimate, mastermind-style events. These events are our most popular and tend to sell out quickly.

During the event, you will be invited to learn from industry experts in the travel and tourism field of expertise and experts in marketing, content creation, and beyond.

In addition to our education sessions, our 2025 event will bring back our Around the Table Collaboration. This is often considered the best part of our events where you can use other attendees and the experts to help work through a struggle in your business.

Additionally, we strive to bring a unique experience to attendees. In the past, this has included activities such as attending a media event at a local theme park, dinner at Pirates Dinner Adventure and Medieval Times, and more.

We are excited to announce our exclusive opportunity!

Our attendees will be able to participate in the Gumball Rally put on by MiceChat. We are taking care of your registration for the rally, but attendees are responsible for their own park entry (tickets, Magic Key).

We hope to see you at this event!

Note: We will NOT be offering virtual access to our 2025 event.

Event Info

Influencing the Magic 2025
February 6-8, 2025
Anaheim Resort Area
California

Hotel Location
Howard Johnson Anaheim

February 6th
Educational Sessions

February 7th
Workshops and collaborations

February 8th
Exclusive Opportunity-
MiceChat Gumball Rally