WASHINGTON, DC—The Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance (ECA) applauds the Kentucky General Assembly and Governor Andy Beshear for adopting a common-sense revision to the commonwealth’s sales tax on spa ...

WASHINGTON, DC—The Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance (ECA), the unified advocacy voice of the face-to-face business events industry, is pleased to announce today that PCMA has joined ECA as its tenth ...

WASHINGTON, DC—The Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance (ECA) announced that its 2023 Legislative Action Day will take place in-person in Washington, DC on Thursday, June 1, 2023.  

WASHINGTON, DC—With the new Congress being sworn in today, the Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance (ECA) has published its 2023 public policy priorities. For 2023, the ten ECA alliance partner organiza ...

Hervé Sedky, Emerald Holding Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the ECA Board of Directors, issued the following statement regarding the introduction of The Hard-Hit Small Business Relief Fund Act, new legislation from U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin that would provide grants to hard-hit small businesses that can demonstrate substantial losses in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“ECA applauds the Biden administration and the CDC for lifting the pre-departure Covid-19 testing requirement for inbound international travelers. As the face-to-face business events industry continue ...

“Small businesses are critical to ensuring a strong post-pandemic business events industry nationwide, which is why today’s vote in the House of Representatives was so important,” said Hervé Sedky, Em ...

“As we emerge from the pandemic, advocacy has to be part of the DNA of the industry going forward,” said David Audrain, CEM, Chief Executive Officer of the Society of Independent Show Organizers and C ...

January 25, 2022 – Business-to-business (B2B) in-person 2022 events are returning to business with multiple shows readying to stage this month produced by members of the Exhibitions and Conferences Al ...

Sedky, Tanel and Priest-Heck will help guide business events recovery and advancement