Process gap: The idea that local events are always a determining factor for travel planning, to the point of being a major component of destination validation, ignores cases where their influence is marginal or nonexistent.
Who holds the ownership of the decision to ignore an event if it does not match the traveler's profile? If the goal is rest for a family, a festival 50 km away is not a major component of validation.
A clear governance must distinguish situations where events are critical from those where they are secondary to avoid unnecessary complexity.
Without a specific mandate for the trip, there is no thesis on the importance of these events; the decision-making process must be documented.
For example, for a business trip targeting a specific conference, local sporting events are rarely a primary consideration for the final destination, unless they directly affect transportation or accommodation logistics.