BVEP - Business Visits and Events Partnership

Positive Impact Events, UN and Partners SDGs Event Industry Survey.

For the first time since the UN announced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, they will be holding a summit at the end of September, to assess progress on these goals towards their 2030 Agenda. And, they are inviting global industries to tell them what they, as the UN, can do to help each industry work towards the goals that have been set.

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New tourism minister keen to work with industry

(Article first published here by M&IT on 25th January 2018) 

New tourism minister Michael Ellis is keen to develop a positive agenda for the events industry, according to Business Visits and Events Partnership (BVEP) chair Michael Hirst.

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BVEP Calls on Industry for Contributions for 'Shape of Events to Come' Report

The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) is seeking contributions from businesses and organisations across the events sector for its upcoming report, ‘The Shape of Events to Come,’ which it plans to launch next month.

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Michael Hirst OBE Joins DMO Review Expert Group

Michael Hirst OBE, Chair of the UK Events Industry Board and Executive Committee members of the BVEP has been appointed to the DMO Challenge Panel following the UK government’s announcement last month on an independent review into Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) across England.

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Open Letter to PM on Reopening (24 March 2021)

Please find below a copy of the letter that has been sent to the Prime Minister. It has been signed by Simon Hughes on behalf of BVEP and other Partners have also signed the letter.