Comments on: Screw the Public! https://boiseguardian.com/2005/06/25/screw-the-public/ A different slant on the news. Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:06:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: JD https://boiseguardian.com/2005/06/25/screw-the-public/#comment-42 Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:06:32 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=41#comment-42 A convention center in Boise is a bad idea because of the reason that LasVegas NV is such a great convention city. We don’t have what LasVegas gots.

Conventioneers want a lot of full on nude strip clubs and live sex show acts. XXX cable in all hotel rooms.

Dozens of escort service choices.

Cheap food and liquor.

Lots of taxi service for immediate door to door transportation.

Live entertainment shows. Sorry the BOdo multi plex theater won’t cut it.

Entertainment for the family.

Huge semi-trailer trucks need to have a way to load and unload requiring a good size marshalling yard for city centered convention centers.

The amount of trash generated by conventions is monumental. Everything gets thrown away. You need lots of dumpsters and lots of garbage trucks to move the trash out of town. If you dont believe me, wander around back and check out the amount of disgusting trash at a food show.

The price of fuel and airline costs is causes businesses to think twice about sending staff and exhibits to future conventions not to mention attendees especially in a town as isolated as Boise.

Revenues in the convention business continue to trend downward. In times of economic uncertainty, corporations usually cut tradeshows and convention budgets first in their marketing programs. The expense of conventions continues to go up and there is no accurate way to measure results.

Thanks for reading my rant. 20yrs + in the trade show and convention business.

jd

]]> By: NR https://boiseguardian.com/2005/06/25/screw-the-public/#comment-41 Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:41:40 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=41#comment-41 This isn’t specific to just Boise. Portland voters also voted down a convention center expansion, and surprise, surprise, they went ahead with it anyway, funding it by raising the hotel tax and other fees.
I wouldn’t even have a big problem with this, as long as Christensen’s convention center took absolutely NO money from the general taxes, but alas, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

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