VisitBritain/VisitEngland has modified and reopened their tracker survey (here), they will be conducting it regularly to monitor the impact on all aspects of the UK tourism industry. The results will provide impact data to brief Ministers, the Government and COBR to help support the industry through these challenging times.

Please click here for the press release from UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry. 

In the really fast moving crisis that is COVID-19, we thought that it would be good to provide a short update to all our partners. We know that all of you are working really hard to support your members in these unprecedented times. Hopefully the latest blog that we posted yesterday captures the range of work being undertaken by partners and in turn how BVEP is assimilating the information and requests coming from the event industry and putting them directly to officials in key departments. (See: https://www.businessvisitsandeventspartnership.com/)

On 10th March 2020, Simon Hughes gave an interview for the BBC One Business Briefing about how the industry is responding to the challenges of COVID-19.

You can listen to the interview (4min 12s into the programme) at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g9xm/business-briefing-10032020

The Business Visits and Events Partnership (BVEP) has announced the election of Nick Morgan as Vice Chair and the re-election of Dr Caroline Jackson as Vice Chair.

Nick Morgan is CEO of large-scale event and festival production and placemaking agencies We Are The Fair and We Are Placemaking and has more than 23 years’ experience within the events sector. As well as his new role as Vice Chair for BVEP he is a member of the National Outdoor Events Association (NOEA), Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) and the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA).