The Business of Events (TBOE) has shared its planned activity for 2023, which will see an increase in the number of scheduled events and reports as it works towards building a policy agenda ahead of the next UK General Election.
Supporting the work carried out by UKEVENTS, TBOE is an independent ‘think tank’ which works to build a stronger UK events sector and realise its economic potential.
Policy Unit
TBOE will launch its Policy Unit by hosting a series of online and in-person roundtable discussions and evidence sessions with various sector stakeholder groups, in which policy initiatives will be discussed and explored.
This will lead to the publication of a series of reports, which will be submitted to a newly created Advisory Council for review. The flagship Policy Forum will retain its Autumn slot, where policy initiatives will be openly discussed with representatives from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, UKEVENTS, VisitBritain and other key stakeholders.
The Policy Unit will be divided into five streams, supported by strategic content partners to ensure wide representation, including: creative and transactional agency; exhibition and trade shows; professional conference organisers and associations; destinations and venues.
Advisory Council
The Advisory Council will comprise a cross section of figures from across the UK events sector who bring “expertise, connections and influence”. They will support TBOE in raising awareness of its work, act as brand ambassadors for the industry and use their knowledge to contribute to various discussions around the development of a long-term policy agenda for the UK events sector.
The group will meet quarterly to review strategic issues facing the sector and review various internal and external policy initiatives.
Content
TBOE will support advocacy and policy work by producing frequent content across its new engagement platform.
In 2023, the TBOE content team will interview industry figures and those from relevant sectors to explore new policy initiatives and to showcase sentiment across the industry.
A series of breakfast briefings are also planned to take place each quarter in which conference and meeting booking trends will be revealed and analysed, and quarterly reports published.
Further industry reports are also scheduled, including the 2023 edition of the Global Destination Report.
