Skip to main content
SEISS extension is “woefully inadequate”, says IPSE
Government must do more for the self-employed, especially forgotten freelancers who face “dark winter ahead”
News
Rishi Sunak confirms furlough replacement and 'pay as you grow' plans
The chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak has unveiled new support measures for UK businesses
Conference News launch ‘Meet Out to Help Out’ scheme
As part of Conference News’ continued efforts to support the industry, the ‘Meet Out to Help Out’ scheme will be launched in October.
The scheme will available for any event venue or planner to use and is set to run throughout the next six months. It aims to help facilitate more meeting and small business event bookings despite the restrictions that have been put in place.
Content takes shape for December’s IBTM World Virtual
Following Reed Travel Exhibitions announcement, 18 September, that its IBTM World live event would not take place in Barcelona this year (1-3 December), its IBTM Events team has announced the first details of IBTM World Virtual, an online event that will take place 8–10 December 2020.
CALL TO ACTION: Event business owners urged to write to MPs
It has been reported that 126,000 event jobs have already been lost, with hundreds of thousands more at risk as the furlough scheme comes to an end
Fast Forward 15 publishes results of diversity and inclusion academic survey
Fay Sharpe of Fast Forward 15 (FF15), a mentoring programme which aims to inspire, encourage and empower women in the events, hospitality and related industry to be the best they can be, has announced the publication of the Diversity & Inclusion academic survey.
The overall objective of the survey was to understand how inclusive the events industryis.
Business events sector has been “decimated”, support measures put forward
“The business events sector which underpins economic growth for all industries, has today been further decimated,” said Lex Butler.
Business events for up to 30 can continue
Business events for up to 30 may continue to run, it has been confirmed.
The news comes hours after the prime minister, Boris Johnson, announced that conferences and exhibitions will not be allowed to run from 1 October.
"We have simply been ignored", says Meetings Industry Association chief
Longhurst added that without a clear re-opening date and no clear idea whether financial support would be forthcoming, the events industry has “simply been hung out to dry”
Informa records pre-tax H1 loss of £739.9m and plans for £600m of savings by year-end
The results for H1 show an adjusted operating profit of £118.6m
