Las Vegas Sags as Conventions Cancel

[lsanderson]

In January, convention business at some resorts was down 30 percent from a year earlier.
By STEVE FRIESS
Published: February 14, 2009

LAS VEGAS — This city’s reputation as freewheeling and anything goes may have made it the champion of convention markets. But the city’s image — so successfully cultivated in the “What Happens Here, Stays Here” advertising campaign — is not squaring with the new era of fiscal restraint brought on by the economic crisis. More

O! My! Ghod! Like whodathunkit?

Comments

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

I betcha they'd BEG for a world con bid.

Beg? Perhaps...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

But never offer a deal... That's why we're bidding Reno (http://rcfi.org/support.php). Vegas is also, err, rather warm in August.

Re: Beg? Perhaps...

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Reno can also get rather warm in August -- the keyphrases are "Select a hotel that advertises itself as being 'an air-conditioned hotel' [vs. 'with air-conditioned rooms'], so Hall-Parties are practical" and "Attend the Convention, going outside the Con Hotel as little as possible". And maybe "Hotel connected directly to Convention Center". (Mind you, I quite enjoyed the Phoenix Worldcon, despite the "Hammer of God" heat in the plaza between the two venues, but that might have had something to do with being decades younger then.)

Re: Beg? Perhaps...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Si! Can be is the operative, but Reno is the high desert. Average August temps are warm days and comfortable nights. The main hotel connects to the convention center.