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Succeed with your trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany ›› Full service for organizers in an ideal trade show environment: The economically most productive region in Europe. City with the highest economic growth rate in Germany. A modern exhibition center with 19 halls at ground level and a total of 2.7 million square feet. Event locations and two conference centers with more than 40 rooms. First-class infrastructure. International airport on the doorstep. Freeway exit to parking for 20,000 vehicles. Excellent railway network. A highly dedicated team providing the best possible service. Large variety of accommodation. More than 50,000 hotel beds within a 25-mile radius. Last, but not least, a city in which both Germans as well as guests from abroad simply feel at home. For further information please contact us at guestshows.messe-duesseldorf.de Continued from page 17 Putting Up Their Dukes The tourism industry is fighting back. A new multimillion dollar advertising campaign says the attacks on travel are costing a lot of jobs and slams Congress and the Obama administration for rhetoric that is drastically dampening the market for business travel. Travel executives say high-end business meetings and incentive trips, which have been maligned as ill-advised and wasteful, are the lifeblood of the $740-billion industry, creating more than $100 billion in spending and one million jobs. “The first people who suffer are the men and women at the front desk, the bell staff and the taxi drivers across this city,” said Chuck Bowling, executive vice president at Mandalay Bay. Local politicians such as Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman, asked the Administration to apologize for the comments and Nevada lawmaker Rep. Shelley Berkley pleaded for the attacks to stop. Yanking Campaign Contributions? In addition, the U.S. Travel Association (USTA) has launched a plan to reverse the setbacks to the industry by focusing on explaining the impact on employment and resisting any attempts by government to regulate where and when companies can hold meetings. USTA president and chief executive Roger Dow, trying to stop this from becoming an epidemic, did not rule out the possibility that some members – which include the nation’s biggest hotel chains – could yank campaign contributions to lawmakers critical of business travel. Travel executives including Disney Parks and Resorts chairman Jay Rasulo and Jonathan Tisch, chairman and chief executive of Loews Hotels, traveled to Washington to lobby Administration officials and members of Congress. The executives proposed a set of event planning standards limiting an event’s cost and asked to roll back legislation that would limit big trips and meetings by companies accepting taxpayer money. What can we expect for the future? Hopefully, efforts by the travel executives will be effective in preserving the industry. But since no one in the Administration or members of Congress have recanted any of their statements, I think it is certain that similar attacks will continue. This behavior is consistent with other recent attempts by government to gain some control of the banking and auto industry. Using the economic crisis as an opportunity to intervene in the private sector seems to be the new trend and the trade show industry will have to adapt and eventually decide how to address this emerging issue. It appears large scale education on the serious nature of trade shows and how such events promote the development of new products and emerging businesses may soon become a necessity. TSE Continued on page 20 18 April 2009 Trade Show Executive www.TradeShowExecutive.com
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