DesignerCon attracts more than 70,000 attendees each year and hundreds more artists and vendors.
Conventions
The massive World Market Center complex next to Interstate-15 has been open since 2005 and brings thousands of visitors to Las Vegas each year.
The CinemaCon trade show at Caesars Palace offered plenty of ideas for new revenue streams, along with the viral “Dune: Part Two” popcorn bucket.
Those massive movies were showcased during the annual gathering of the National Association of Theatre Owners at Caesars Palace.
The famous Las Vegas venue, which has already hosted U2 and booked a UFC sporting event, has landed its first business conference customer.
With CES on the horizon in early January, more than 300 Culinary Union members could authorize a strike against food-service provider Sodexo next month.
“Businesses of the buyers are just off the charts good and they need inventory. They need new merchandise,” Bob Maricich, CEO of International Market Centers, said of the home furnishings show.
A free concert on the Las Vegas Strip will kick off the opening night of CES in January.
Travel industry leaders were still walking on air Tuesday morning thanks to news that fully vaccinated foreign nationals could again visit the U.S. starting November.
Adding esports to the entertainment mix at a casino can be tricky, but the combination has the potential to be powerful, panelists said during a session at the Indian Gaming Tradeshow and Convention.
Luxury and JCK Las Vegas, which had originally been scheduled for late May and early June, had an indefinite postponement date that’s now pushed back to June 2021.
About 100 airplanes will be on display between the two sites, with 83 aircraft being at Henderson airport and 13 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.