Celebrating 10 Years Of Leading The Way For Britain's Events

Welcome to the website of the Business Visits & Events Partnership.

The Business Visits and Events Partnership's mission is to 'lead the way in supporting a competitive, high quality and more profitable business visits and events sector in Britain'.

The Partnership:

  • Provides a cohesive, independent industry voice to represent Britain's business visit and events sector working in partnership with VisitBritain.
  • Its membership is aimed at the leading trade associations and government agencies with an interest in conferences, meetings, exhibitions, trade fairs, outdoor events, incentive travel, corporate hospitality, cultural, sporting and leisure events.
  • Seeks to influence and develop policies and strategies favourable to the development of the business visits and events sector, together with all these organisations.
  • Provides a forum for members to select the important issues relating to business visits and events.
  • Acts as a central focus for lobbying and speaking up collectively for business visits and events, independently of government departments and agencies.
  • Promotes the benefits of business visits and events to relevant government authorities with responsibilities for decisions that impact the growth of the sector.
  • Communicates with and better informs key influencers and industry practitioners.
  • Encourage best practice.

Learn more about the Partnership and Business Visits and Events by clicking here.

Click here to download the Business Tourism Briefing, an overview of the UK's Business Tourism Industry.

Click on the members button for links to their individual sites and for information on the issues and activities that they are tackling.

Business Visits & Events Partnership - Moving Business Visits & Events up the agenda

The Business Visits and Events Partnership is the new name for the Business Tourism Partnership. This new leaflet provides details about the new partnership.

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Business Visits & Events Partnership - Celebrating 10 years Of Leading The Way For Britain's Events

pdf Download a resume of the BVEP's activities in the last 10 years.

Presentations from the workshop on "Events Sector Professionalisation" at Confex 2010

Click here to download the discussion paper - "Addressing the skills and labour needs of the events industry".

Four powerpoint presentations are also available by:

The Grass Roots Meetings Industry Report 2010

The report looks at the key trends influencing meetings and event procurement. This fourth edition is a prime source of benchmarking & best practice information and includes in-depth case studies & contributions from 20+ clients. It examines data from over 140 industry associations, trade bodies & commercial companies and includes new client research.

To view an extract of the report or request a download please click here

Labour Market Review of the Events Industry Report

Report published by People 1st, the sector skills council in January 2010. Contents include overview and structure of the industry, business events workforce and workforce development, current trends and issues, future trends.

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Take Tourism Seriously Please click here for the latest document prepared by the Tourism Alliance - "Tourism: The opportunity for employment and economic growth".