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Meeting with Labour MP for Glasgow North, Martin Rhodes

Meeting with Labour MP for Glasgow North, Martin Rhodes
We met to discuss the business events industry, highlighting the significant contribution we make to the UK economy and the challenges we face as an industry.

The meeting gave us the opportunity to inform Martin Rhodes of our three asks:
🥇 For the Government to take a strategic approach towards events that includes using the industry to help promote Government priorities.
🥈 For the business events industry to be included in a Mutual Recognition Agreement between the UK and EU member states.
🥉 To work with our industry to create a supportive ecosystem that enables the events sector to recover, thrive and contribute significantly to the UK economy post-pandemic, while staying adaptable to future challenges.

We look forward to working together.
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  • The events industry is only as good as the sum of its parts – the EIA represents all parts of our amazing industry. We are members because together we are so much stronger and are therefore so much better placed to deal with both our challenges and the massive opportunities that lie ahead.
    Simon Parker
    CIBSE
  • The EIA serves as the quintessential industry forum and working group representing the cornerstones critical to all events; the organiser, the venue and the supply chain providing goods and services to the sector. Whilst it’s always been a valuable alliance for the industry, in these times of post-pandemic economic uncertainty and geo-political challenges, the ability for the industry to convene, confer and communicate as a unified sector is imperative as we seek to grow and have an even greater impact on the UK’s social and economic landscape.
    Shaun Hinds
    Manchester Central
  • The EIA is a great forum for collaboration between three of the major UK business events associations. It’s so important as an industry that we speak with one voice, that we collaborate on the biggest issues that we face and that we build mutual understanding and respect. The EIA provides the opportunity to do all of these things and is a made more powerful by all of our contributions.
    Carina Bauer
    IMEX

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