• Bring back communicable disease coverage to event cancellation insurance *

• Increase music licensing transparency and stop anti-competitive behavior by music rights holders *

• Strengthen support for industry small businesses, including SBA reauthorization and modernization

• Finalize new FTC rule prohibiting business impersonation fraud and increasing enforcement capability

• Establish a pro-growth/innovation federal privacy statute that harmonizes existing state privacy laws

• Restore visa operations to pre-pandemic levels while modernizing the visa processing system *

• Help prevent future international travel restrictions

• Streamline and harmonize travel policies between the U.S. and key international partners and regions

• Strengthen public-sector programs that attract international events to the U.S. (and retain them) and recruit international attendees to U.S. events

• Ensure favorable global standardization efforts

• Prevent anti-growth state and local taxation of our industry

• Block state and local efforts to restrict the continuity and freedom of operations of business events

• Oppose event boycotts and policy-driven operational restrictions

• Promote industry-led sustainability and decarbonization efforts that ensure the industry remains in control of its path to Net Zero *

• Encourage smart decarbonization initiatives by government entities while ensuring the right balance between environmental aims and industry feasibility

• Support government policies to help attract and train the industry’s next generation workforce *

• Amplify efforts to raise awareness of the business events industry to our future talent pool (high school and college programs, internships, school counselor outreach, trade school programs, etc.) *

• Support industry-wide efforts to secure a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics NAICS code for the industry

* Top 2024 ECA priority