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Suggestions for future EF locations
Shiro:
--- Quote from: SouthPaw on 24.12.2010, 22:06:21 ---Have you any idea of the economics involved behind such a move?
Conference rooms at Hotels tend to be (relatively) cheap if you guarantee a certain number of room nights. (In EF's case, that's the majority of the Hotel). A standalone conference centre is VERY expensive.
Not the same country, admittedly, but the ExCeL Centre in London quoted a rate of £16100 (around €18950) per day, exclusive of tax, for the use of their Conference Centre (capacity 1100) a couple of years ago.
Cheers,
Southie
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Well it should be mentioned that London is the second most expensive city in Europe. Right after Copenhagen.
But no I haven't looked far into the area.
I just noticed that allot of other cons use this form "anime, gaming"
And if they use it, it doesn't sound like its a totally problematic thing.
Off course I could look into the conference center prices outside of the big citys.
But I think that is for the EF staff to do, since in the end its their desission.
I was just curios if that approach had been looked into at all.
Since I Haven't had luck to find any mention about it.
Merry Christmas :D
Cheetah:
--- Quote from: Shiro on 24.12.2010, 15:12:55 ---Hey guys.
After having read through this topic and the one about the good and bad with the new hotel,
I have started to wonder about why convention centers seemingly hasn't been brought up much yet, least of all from the EF staff.
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We have considered it, but we didn't bring it up in public because so far we haven't seen a single one that satisfies our criteria ... not to mention the very hefty pricetag. Typical convention centers have a lot of function space, but usually no or just very little hotel capacity on location. Normal trade fairs draw mostly walk-in audience, who only come for one day and drive back to their hotels scattered around a 100km surrounding area via train and car when the exhibition closes for the evening.
So, as long as we can fit everyone in one hotel without a one-hour drive between hotel and convention, regular convention centers are pretty much out of the question.
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