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The meetings industry has pulled together to form an Industry Consortium as a proactive measure and serve as a collective voice regarding the value of meetings, events and incentive travel. Primary audiences are the U.S. government, media and general public. Our industry’s concerted efforts to protect corporate meetings and motivational events are beginning to pay off. While we have a long way to go, we are beginning to make a difference. Below are links to the most recent and relevant information. FICP will provide updates as new information becomes available.

• Visit Meetings Means Business for information on how you and your colleagues can help defend meetings and events from sensational and misinformed attacks.  

  

• Ben Stein comments on the meetings industry and importance of maintaining face-to-face events (CBS Sunday Morning, 6/14/09)
  
• Keep America Meeting Petition Signatures Delivered to Senate Commerce Committee
• Meetings Mean Business Advertisement 
• Industry Update from FICP's April Board Meeting
• Bill Seeks to Limit Compensation, Not Incentives (Meetingsnet.com, 4/6/09)
• Steve Bova's Presentation at Southeast Regional Meeting
• The Washington Post (3/12/09)
• USA Today article (2/27/09)
• Letters from Hotel CEOs to Congress
• Wall Street Journal (2/25/09)
• Model Policy for Meetings, Events & Incentive Travel (for U.S. companies using emergency federal funding or TARP funds)
• MEI Standards Talking Points
• Keep America Meeting Grassroots Petition 
• Meetings Industry Toolkit
• CIC Release/Supporting Organizations
• FICP Statement November 2008 

FICP thanks its 2010 Strategic Partners

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American Airlines 

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FICP proudly supports the CIC grassroots initiative, "FACE TIME. It matters." Learn more here.