WASHINGTON, DC—The Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance (ECA) applauds the introduction of the Visa Processing Improvement Act, bipartisan legislation from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) that would address the long visitor visa appointment wait times that are significantly harming the business events sector.
 

Vinnie Polito, ECA Co-President, issued the following statement regarding today’s House Foreign Affairs Committee Oversight & Accountability Subcommittee hearing “Examining the Fiscal Year 24 Bureau of Consular Affairs Budget.”

WASHINGTON, DC—Nearly 100 industry leaders and advocates from 24 states assembled today on Capitol Hill for ECA Legislative Action Day, where they advocated for ECA’s federal public policy priorities ...

WASHINGTON, DC | May 4, 2023—At 1:00 PM EDT on Thursday, May 4, 2023, the Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance (ECA) will testify at an informal U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hearing on its propos ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Registration has opened for the Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance’s (ECA) 2023 Legislative Action Day, which returns to Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday, June 1, 2023, at ECA ...

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.