10 Meetings Industry Advocacy Tips
By Tyler Davidson
It seems it’s always open-season on the meetings industry, with politicians tossing the issue of face-to-face government meetings around like a football, and just when it seems industry advocacy groups such as U.S. Travel make some headway in tamping out a specific threat, another fire starts to rage.
Case in point: Recent legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) that seeks to cut federal travel expenses by 50 percent via using videoconferencing rather than meeting face-to-face.
To be fair, recent scandals with government meetings—notably the GSA (General Services Administration) debacle that shook the foundation of the government meetings segment—are certainly fuel to feed the fire, but taking draconian steps just to seemingly score political points by slashing travel, most agree, is a major damper on the economy.
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Showing Value
Meeting professionals who want some solid statistics about the value of the meetings industry to the U.S. economy and job creation can access a wealth of information from U.S. Travel.
One all-in-one resource is the association’s Travel Means Jobs white paper, which is loaded with facts advocates can cite in their dealings with political representatives.
Meetings Focus also recently interviewed Voices in Advocacy’s Roger Rickard and Karen Kotowski, executive director of the Convention Industry Council, about the Meetings Industry Advocacy Hub.
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