MPI alerts on the effects of Trump’s executive order

“We are concerned the recently signed U.S. executive order on immigration and refugees could have negative impacts on our global membership community and the meeting and event industry. MPI is lending its full support to the Meetings Mean Business Coalition and their efforts to monitor this issue and understand potential implications. We will unite with fellow coalition members to advocate for our industry, sharing updates with our members on how Meetings Mean Business is ‘reaffirming that it’s critical to strike the right balance between enhanced security and travel facilitation.’”

The MPI community was already expecting the market to become more national, in the association’s latest report ‘Meetings Outlook’. To the question of how all types of events would evolve following the American elections, the predictions pointed to an optimism as to the evolution of all types of “domestic” events and pessimism in the of all the events “International” (see chart). Moment of retraction? It is early to say, but there is certainly bad news here for the US and for our sector in general. And an opportunity for other destinations that remain open…