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A Couple of Million Jobs at Stake
By Mitchell Beer | March 11, 2009
BREAKING NEWS:
On March 10, The Huffington Post published my blog item on the meetings industry crisis and the Kerry bill now before the U.S. Congress.
The central argument, drawing on data from MPI Foundation Canada’s study of the economic impact of meetings and events, was that the attack on meetings in the U.S. could touch a couple of million jobs…and that the incentive programs in the eye of the storm only represent a tiny fraction of the industry’s economic activity.
On MPI’s website, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Elizabeth Valestuk Henderson commented that the post presented “a sustainable and responsible meetings model that might just be the solution to the bad press the industry has lately endured.”
Topics: Business Issues, Conference Blogs, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Impact, Meeting Professionals International, The Conference Publishers |