The size of Westin is tremendous, just the great hall and the 2nd floor where the meeting rooms are adds up to 70,000 sq feet. This is a hotel with around 1000 rooms and with a pool larger than the size of the main meeting areas of other places. You can have a peak look of Westin at:
http://www.diplomatresort.com/ - If you want to define the success of an event by the density of people by square feet that's something different to discuss.
The number of events taking place simultaneously is larger than ever. AVN Show was designed to provide options to attendees based on their interest. For example, between 2:00pm and 3:00pm tomorrow the following activities will take place:
Exhibit Hall
Cabanas
3rd Floor Suites & Meeting rooms
Novelty Demo Lab
Novelty Exhibit Hall
Ripped Off! Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Thievery - Room 213
Utherverse Builds a Virtual World in Real-time: An Exlusive Demo - Atlantic 3
Life in the Third Dimension: How to Produce 3D Content - Regency 3
Hot Sectors: The Ascendancy of Live Content and Dating - Atlantic 2
To Sell or Not to Sell: How to Maximize Your Value - Part 2 - Regency 1
You can see the schedule at
http://www.avnshow.com/schedule-of-a...stry-show.html or download a complete version here:
http://www.avnshow.com/_docs/AVNShow_Full_Details.pdf
Our industry is constantly changing. I don't believe it is realistic to expect the Internet segment of any event to be anywhere near the size of 2000-2005. I have a feeling Shap has left with such images in his mind. Someone recently wrote that used to have something like a thousand icq contacts and that the vast majority of them have disappeared for a while. Unfortunately, we like it or not this is a fact.
Video segment is harming as well and big time. Phil Harvey delivered a beautiful keynote today at the beginning of which he shared some of the Adam&Eve corporate statistics. Like every other company they experiences a steady decline in dvd sales. The difference with most of his competition is they successful make up for those loses through increases from other segments and mainly from sex toys.