[meteorite-list] Tucson 2010 Show Website and News

From: Mark Bowling <minador_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:05:07 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <467566.51972.qm_at_web54506.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hi Anne & all,
 
People keep bringing up a great point. I've seen other shows crater because they were in cities with too many attractions (specifically Anaheim). People bring their families and a lot of the attendees spend a few days at Disney Land. So the shows suffer because of the many distractions.
 
That being said, it's folly for Tucson to ignore the problems. The show could move to Marana or another nearby community which is more business friendly outside the state (Milwaukee lost GenCon to Indianapolis - a great venue with hardly any distractions, probably my favorite show city...).
 
Moving next door to Marana or Oro Valley would not a problem for us, but it would be bad for the city. If a lot of the dealers pull out, I doubt the Tucson Gem & Mineral Society would follow. So the show would go on in some fashion. If attendance drops, then hotel prices should follow. It's difficult to tell if the poor attendance last year was caused by the growing infrastructure problems, or the recession. I know jewelry dealers who were happy with last year. It's such a big show, I don't see a drastic change, but maybe a slow decline if things don't improve.
 
But if the all of the dealers DID manage to move and the Society dissolved, I wouldn't follow. I'd start going to Denver, Munich or Ensisheim... I hope the City starts to do a better job!
 
Hoping for a bigger, brighter (& drier) Tucson show!! Good luck to all the dealers!
 
Mark B.
Vail, AZ

--- On Mon, 12/14/09, Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tucson 2010 Show Website and News
> To: raremeteorites at yahoo.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Cc: geoking at notkin.net
> Date: Monday, December 14, 2009, 1:25 PM
> Hello Adam and all,
>
> Do you know that the Las Vegas Gem Show used to be a
> full-fledged Rocks and
> Minerals Show years ago? I had many occasions to talk to
> some of the
> largest mineral dealers doing that Show, and I was told
> repeatedly that it was a
> very poor Show financially and attendance. Probably because
> the public was
> distracted by the other "attractions" of Vegas. Maybe it is
> why it was
> down-sized to a Gem only Show. And I do know a gem dealer
> who is considering
> dropping it because it is not worth his time.
> And if the Tucson Show moves to Vegas, I will probably stop
> doing it too.
> And Yes, I have been in Vegas many times, it is an amusing
> place from an
> architectural point of view, and shopping is pretty good,
> but that's about it.
> And I just checked _www.Hotels.com_ (http://www.Hotels.com) , there is
> still half a dozen hotels (Super 8, Comfort Inn,....) with
> rooms for less than
> $100 a night for the weekend of Feb 4 to Feb. 8. The Big
> Weekend.
>
> Now about the Real Tucson Show.
> I have been very busy preparing it too, Only six
> weeks!!!!???Time flies.
>
> I have way too much inventory, so for the first time ever I
> will have a
> Sales/Bargains corner with a very wide assortment of
> things, even a few
> thin-sections.
>
> Speaking of Thin-Sections, I will have ET's collection with
> me in addition
> to my own, so that's about 800 thin-sections. And I might
> receive another
> batch before the show.
>
> And I will have a couple surprises in Exclusivity. More
> about that very
> soon.
>
> And Alain Carion has a new book out just in time for
> Tucson, and since I
> had the pleasure to translate it, I will have the pleasure
> to present it in
> Tucson.
>
> And I am sure I am forgetting a lot of other things.
> More soon.
>
> Anne M. Black
> _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/)
> _IMPACTIKA at aol.com_
> (mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com)
>
> Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
> _http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/)
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/14/2009 11:22:50 AM Mountain Standard
> Time,
> raremeteorites at yahoo.com
> writes:
> Geoff wrote:
>
> And FYI: The Tucson gem show is NOT moving to Las Vegas or
> anywhere else? :
> )
>
>
> I am definitely going to the show this year since it may be
> of the last.? I
> would hate to see it leave but do not see the Tucson City
> council doing
> anything to make it stay.
>
> NASCAR, the largest spectator sport in the world just moved
> its annual
> championship banquet to Las Vegas after spending 30 plus
> years in New York.?
> They thought NASCAR would never change this venue and look
> what happened.?
> Several large concerns have moved their shows to Las Vegas
> because they are
> making unbeatable deals and catering to clients needs more
> than ever before.
>
>
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