You get the facts from TSW news. Here, get the background, bigger picture and stuff we couldn’t tell you in the news. en-us http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302.html?nid=3498 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use November 15, 2009 http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/270050027.html?nid=3498 Viad Corp. held its third-quarter conference call this morning, and it couldn’t have been an easy call for GES Chairman, President and CEO Pa... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1920049792.html?nid=3498 As I try to crystallize my thoughts here, euphemisms keep popping into my head. When I “read the tea leaves,” do I see “light at ... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1490049549.html?nid=3498 There were two major breaking news items yesterday for the tradeshow industry: First thing in the morning was the news that Canon Communications ha... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1720049372.html?nid=3498 We have been on a campaign here at Tradeshow Week for at least a couple of years. We’ve been trying to point out the efforts being made in th... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/340049034.html?nid=3498 Dan Fenton, president and CEO of Team San Jose, apparently has not relented from his position that a local union gets first dibs on any event to be... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1720048572.html?nid=3498 Last year’s swine flu is making a new appearance this year as the H1N1 virus. I was one observer who thought the threat of swine flu... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1940048394.html?nid=3498 My first trip to Macau – coinciding, as it turns out, with the second anniversary of the Venetian Macau - and all was quiet at the convention... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1760047176.html?nid=3498 The next issue of Tradeshow Week will include a brief story about Viad Corp.’s second-quarter earnings. It’s no surprise to anybody tha... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/20047002.html?nid=3498 Even if showfloors are shrinking and attendance is down, in the midst of this recession many of us are comforting ourselves with the truism that &l... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1390046739.html?nid=3498 Earlier this week, a press release arrived from Viad Corp. announcing there would be some sort of consolidation of GES Exposition Services and Exhi... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/230046423.html?nid=3498 According to a couple of the travel-industry Web sites I routinely look at, CVB executives in Utah are happy these days because the liquor laws in ... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1560045556.html?nid=3498 The good news out of the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum is that most leaders of the tradeshow industry remain optimistic about their fu... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1320045332.html?nid=3498 My colleagues Joalien Johnson and Rachel Wimberly came back Wednesday from E³ Expo with their expectations confirmed: The old E³ is... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/590045059.html?nid=3498 At an industry meeting I attended not too long ago, a session panelist said, “Don’t let a good recession go to waste.” Like most... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1230044523.html?nid=3498 The Center for Exhibition Industry Research has released its first-quarter index of tradeshow industry performance. The quick headline version is, ... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/360044236.html?nid=3498 For the last week or so we’ve been slicing and dicing the 2009 Tradeshow Week 200. While there aren’t too many surprises – ever &... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1300044130.html?nid=3498 Last Thursday we broke the news on our Web site that the Food Marketing Institute was canceling its MARKETECHNICS show scheduled to start Wednesday... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/480043848.html?nid=3498 The biggest developing story during the weekend was the appearance of swine flu in Mexico and the startlingly swift response from a number of gover... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/50043405.html?nid=3498 You’ve got to sympathize with the position Eric Allen finds himself in. As executive vice president and head of the Healthcare Convention &am... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1470043147.html?nid=3498 The news remains worse for some shows and destinations than others. We reported yesterday on our Web site that attendance at tradeshows, convention... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/460043046.html?nid=3498 Our directories editors are busy putting the final touches on the latest edition of the Tradeshow Week 200, which should be released to the public ... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1000042900.html?nid=3498 The meat-and-potatoes bottom line on the SISO CEO Summit is fairly easy to capsulate: Things are tough in the tradeshow world, as tough as many peo... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1730041173.html?nid=3498 In the last 24 hours alone, I have heard from the following industry organizations regarding some aspect of a campaign to inform political leaders ... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/190040819.html?nid=3498 If you think about it, there are good reasons why show managers are optimistic, even when things look difficult. They’re in the business of p... http://www.tradeshowweek.com/blog/1020000302/post/1000040300.html?nid=3498 Convention and visitors bureau executives aren’t any happier than anybody else trying to make a living these days. Getting those famous heads...