Industry News

One of These Days
In a continuing series that could be titled “One of These Days This Could Get Serious,” there seems to more evidence that the increasin...
The New Yorker Meets Sheldon Adelson
The one and only time I interviewed Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., in January 2005, he put his portable tape recor...
For Las Vegas, It’s Not Just the Heat
If these are the dog days in Las Vegas, they’re the big-dog days for the city’s tradeshow and convention business. Sure, our editors in...
Now, For Something New
Often at the annual meetings of industry associations with sizable numbers of exhibitors as members, the issues on people’s minds are much al...
Election? What Election?
One thing this job I’ve got has over jobs I’ve had in the past, at daily and weekly newspapers, is that I don’t have to talk to p...
Layers of Green
I learned something valuable about green exhibiting last week when I attended the monthly meeting of the Las Vegas chapter of the Exhibit Designers...
Show Managers Versus Venue Managers
In our annual survey of show managers late last year, somewhere around November, a majority of organizers famously told Tradeshow Week their No. 1 ...
A Taste for Truth in China
If you’ve ever been to an industry meeting in Asia, you know that they tend toward the staid. While last month’s IAEE Expo! Expo! inclu...
Goodbye, and Thanks
I was saddened by the news of the death of Michael Hough. Of all the industry leaders who’ve passed away in the seven-plus years I’ve b...
New Orleans Needs a Break
Sometimes, as a reporter, a story that starts out as one thing takes on a life of its own in a very short period of time due to unforeseen circumst...
Dallas’ Revitalization Is the Real Deal
A lot of cities are working on revitalizing their downtowns. Oftentimes, once-thriving areas have waned over the years as people and businesses mov...
CVBs Are Part of Local Community, Too
We had some bad news this week in Las Vegas. Over the weekend, as he ran for his life, a man was shot to death in front of his two children at a pu...
We Don't Have An "Agenda"
Here at Tradeshow Week, we pride ourselves on reporting the news, which means remaining completely objective and reporting the entire story, good o...
‘No Comment’ Can Hurt Source, Too
An unfortunate thing happened on the way to press with my story, “Rival Shows Get Up Close and Personal” in the Sept. 17 issue. One of ...
Our Loan Crisis Jumps Across the Pond
When a butterfly flaps its wings in Malaysia, a hurricane happens in Florida – or at least that's close to how the saying goes. In other word...
Detroit's Reliable Sources
Once in a while a reporter at a local newspaper will call me or one of my colleagues at Tradeshow Week for comment on a story they perceive as pure...
It’s Turning Green All Over
This is quite the editor’s quandary. Although Tradeshow Week can’t go back as far as Al Gore can, I do feel like it was quite ...
When “On the Record” is “On the Record”
The question of whether or not something someone said is on or off the record has come up a few times around the Tradeshow Week newsroom in the las...
Post-Katrina, Tradeshow Industry Does Its Share
Assuming this blog is not your only access to the world today, that you’ve read a newspaper or seen even a snippet of a television news show,...
A 'Changeable' Summer
Here at Tradeshow Week and at virtually every other news organization I’ve ever worked, summers are slow. Breaking news tends to follow more ...
Never a Dull Moment
I love my job. And I’m not just saying that because I will have a new publisher soon (our current boss, Adam Schaffer, announced this week he...
An Awkward Hello at CEMA Summit 2007
A few weeks ago, as I mentioned in an earlier blog, I went to the Corporate Event Marketing Assn. Summit 2007 at the Torrey Pines Hilton in La Joll...
Forget the Show This Year?
Truly, I write not to whine. I am not the first writer nor is Tradeshow Week the first publication to state that this summer has seen a level of tr...
If Paris Is Yours, What Isn’t?
You may have heard about July 9, or, as it shall henceforth be known, Paris Tourist Day. Acknowledging a perceived lack of civility among ...
Suppliers and Buyers Need Best Practices
I just got back from the Corporate Event Marketing Assn. Summit 2007 in La Jolla, Calif. During the session “Intellectual Property Town...