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Pubcon Las Vegas 2012 To Be Held On October 15 – 19 |
Vegas 2012 will be held October 15 – 19, 2012 at the massive Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Get out your 2012 calendars now and mark October 15 -19 for the biggest week of search and social media next year at Pubcon Las Vegas 2012, featuring hundreds of leading speakers and cutting-edge sessions, dozens of optimization and new media sub-conference tracks, and Pubcon’s famous Las Vegas evening parties and networking events.
Supported by the industry’s top businesses, exhibitors and sponsors involved in new media, Internet
marketing, search engines, and online advertising, we expect next year’s Pubcon Las Vegas 2012 to offer a week-long look at the future of technology presented by more than 200 of the world’s best speakers in more than 100 bold and innovative sessions.
Get the latest news by keeping posted to the Pubcon blog for more information and registration details about Pubcon Las Vegas 2012. Read about our successful Pubcon Las Vegas 2011, including a wrap-up of hundreds of media reports.
We look forward to seeing you next year on October 15 – 19 in the entertainment capital of the world for Pubcon Las Vegas 2012.
Thanks,
Lane R. Ellis
Lead Editor
Team PubCon
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When: Oct 21 - 24, 2013 Where: Las Vegas Convention Center Pass Types: Platinum - Gold - Training - Expo Hall - Classic
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By Brett Tabke, January 26, 2012 @ 10:13 am
It is a whole different setup to hold a conference at a hotel:
1-Most don’t have large enough facilaties for 8 sessions at same time + lunchroom + keynote availability.
2- Room guarantees. Most large hotels want room blocks under written. 3000 attendees * 3 nights avg =9000 room nights * $99 a night to $269 a night historical avg = $800,000 to $2million in room guarantees you would have to under write. If the conference has to be canceled, you are on the hook for a cool $2m in rooms. During the ‘flu’ scare in May of 2009, several large conferences were canceled in Las Vegas – those conferences are bankrupt because the hotels held them to their room guarantees.
3- Food. Catering is almost 2x as expensive at a hotel as a conference center. You would pay a min of $60 a plate for lunch at a hotel.
4-AV exclusivity. Some hotels require you to use ‘in house’ services such as AV. The prices are wildly inflated 100%.
5-Distractions. Las Vegas hotel conference sessions have a 20% lower attendance rate than sessions at a conference center.
6-Contracting costs. General contractors and decorators charge more in a hotel than in a conference center.
What conferences work in a Vegas hotel?
- Conferences with an exhibitor focus with high priced booths.
- Fewer sessions and sessions that are promotional by exhibitors.
- Lower quality sessions.
- no food included.
- smaller conferences.
- higher priced conferences
We have visited every major hotel in Vegas and given our current configuration, there are only three that are suitable for our size and style of conference (mgm isn’t one of them).
Our study indicate we would have to charge double or more what we currently charge for our Las Vegas conference.
So, that is why we stick at LVCC. It keeps our costs low, allows us to have up to 10 simultaneous sessions, it allows us to offer the conference at an industry leading price point.
thanks for the feedback
brett
By jarredjohnson, December 29, 2011 @ 3:45 pm
Why couldn’t you guys hold the convention at MGM or Wynn or Venetian and use their facilities instead, to cut down on all the transportation costs and so on. Most of us stayed at the MGM and they have a massive convention complex that would be ideal for everyone to use. I’m not a fan of the “LV Convention Center”, as it’s too far off strip and a pain to walk to and from.