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Quashing Unfair Tax Policies, Growing International Travel, Training Workers Tops ECA 2025 Hot Button List

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Support government policies to help attract and train the industrys future workforce. This includes advocating for expanding Pell Grants to cover high-quality shorter-term skills training. Read More: Shaping the Future of Hospitality Grow international travel to increase U.S. global competitiveness. global competitiveness.

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New ESPA Event Servicing Certification Debuts

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To ensure that those support networks are skilled in current best practices, a new Event Service Professional Certification (ESPC) from Event Service Professionals Association (ESPA) will help everyone sleep easier at night. Read More : Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs.

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Hospitality Meets Diversity Through Queer Destinations Certification

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The company works with key players in the international tourism industry, including restaurants, hotels, destination marketing organizations, and, most recently, events to take inclusivity training and earn the Queer Destinations Committed designation.

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Leading Hospitality, Travel and Events Orgs Are Investing in the Next Generation of Talent

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After a quiet two years on the events, hospitality and tourism fronts, an experience-driven, diversity, equity and inclusion-devoted (DEI) next generation of talent is pouring through open doors, looking for opportunities to break into the industry. Academic Access to Events and Hospitality Grows. Events Is Taking Interns.

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Why Planners Choose the Pennsylvania Convention Center

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Add in a multimillion-dollar investment in cutting-edge technology, customer service training, and progressive exhibitor policies, and its easy to see why the Center continues to attract some of the industrys most significant events to Philadelphia. The training program revolves around three pillars Safety, Skills and Smiles.

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What Planners Can Learn from the CrowdStrike IT Blackout

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Travel and meeting risk trainer offers insights for the future The news Friday morning that an update from the software protection company CrowdStrike crashed travel, emergency, hospital and banking systems all over the globe, was a reminder of the risks of planning events in a highly networked world. What can you do?

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What Planners Can Learn from the CloudStrike IT Blackout

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Travel and meeting risk trainer offers insights for the future The news Friday morning that an update from the software protection company CrowdStrike crashed travel, emergency, hospital and banking systems all over the globe, was a reminder of the risks of planning events in a highly networked world. What can you do?

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