Every day, business events drive economic growth, support job creation, and empower small businesses from coast to coast and around the world. That's why ECA is active in Washington, DC, and in state houses and city halls nationwide, to advocate for public policies that will strengthen the competitiveness of the U.S. business and professional events industry going forward and allow us to continue to serve as growth engines for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and communities nationwide.

In 2025, ECA's public policy agenda is focused on five key areas that are critical to our collective ability to continue driving economic growth, supporting job creation, empowering small businesses, and helping to solve our most urgent societal challenges.

• Enhance competitiveness through growth-focused tax policies
• Create new workforce pathways to ensure industry competitiveness
• Grow international travel to increase U.S. global competitiveness
• Leverage smart decarbonization for long-term competitive advantage
• Support future growth through a competitive operating environment

As part of ECA’s 2025 public policy agenda, ECA's alliance partners and board of directors identified five issues will be the top priorities for ECA in the year ahead:

• Enact pro-growth, pro-investment, pro-impact, and pro-workforce development federal tax reform
• Prevent harmful state and local tax policies that would unfairly target the industry
• Support government policies to help attract and train the industry’s future workforce
• Continue reducing visa wait times while modernizing the visa processing system
• Oppose adoption of any U.S. inbound international travel restrictions

For more information on ECA's 2025 public policy agenda, please click on the graphic below. Thank you.