Source: Conference News On the day that national tourism boards VisitBritain and VisitEngland had their budgets slashed by 34 per cent, 150 meetings and event industry guest VIPs came to the House of Commons, 20 October, to lobby MPs to stand up for the industry’s interests. MPs were presented with copies of the Business Visits [...]

Source: C&IT Magazine   Liberal Democrat co-chair of the DCMS parliamentary committee Don Foster has pledged his support for the business events sector amid 34% cuts to Visit Britain’s budget.   Visit Britain yesterday (20 October) learned its budget would be cut from £28.8m this year to £21.2m in 2014/15 as part of the comprehensive [...]

 Source: Event Magazine The UK business and events industry is worth £36.1bn, according to a new report. The Britain for Events report, released to coincide with Britain for Events Week, splits the various areas of the events industry into sectors and finds huge value in each market. Corporate hospitality, for example, is worth £1bn, exhibitions [...]

 Source: Event Magazine Industry association Eventia has called for David Cameron to consider the importance of face-to-face meetings and events when making spending cuts this week. The association believes that the Prime Minister, who himself uses live events to support his campaigns and reach out to the public, should bear in mind the ‘knock on [...]