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Remember Events and Meetings Sector in Any COVID-19 Bailout, Urges SIIA

Don’t exclude the events and meetings sector from any COVID-19 economic stimulus package for the hospitality industry, urged the Software & Information Industry Association and Professional Convention Management Association. They wrote Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and congressional leadership Friday, and…

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released the documents Monday, asking them to “take an expansive view of the types of businesses” involved in the hospitality sector. Meetings and events “directly and indirectly employ millions of Americans,” they said. “The entire industry has been forced to sharply curtail, even eliminate entirely, their activities, thus jeopardizing their ability to stay in business.”