Tampa? New Orleans? Palm Springs? Looking for feedback...

[LAJ]

Originally Posted by Hammer

New Orleans doesn't have any hotels that can accommodate us and frankly, I seriously doubt they are much more open to pornographers than San Diego. Also, considering the recent devastation, they are definitely not back up to speed yet. Oh, and the mayor don't like whitey.

Tampa would be good because it's a convention city and would probably be pretty open to our ilk. Of course, there is already a big show in Florida so I'm not so sure having two in the same state within 2 months is a good idea.

Palm Springs is a very conservative community, IMO.

Who came up with this shortlist, because it's really not that good. Why not Atlantic City or something in the northeast since there aren't any shows there and there are plenty of webmasters?

LOL, Hammer... with all due respect, I gotta laugh at what you say here. It's obvious you haven't organized an adult tradeshow before.

How do you know that N.O. "doesn't have any hotels that can accommodate us"... there are several we can do business with. The show is not for 10 months. Anyway... who cares what Nagin thinks LOL... the city would love our money.

And with the glut of shows in the industry... Midsized show in Tampa in Late May, Huge show in Hollywood in Early August... I don't see the problem.

Fay and I came up with a list of over a dozen cities about a month ago and we have been ruling out one city after another for one reason or another including hotel mgmt, pricing, accessibility... the list goes on. Atlantic City was on the list originally but we ruled it out and frankly much of the northeast is too expensive.