IMAC Las Vegas to be Cancelled

Re: IMAC LV

Re: IMAC LV

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10263624#post10263624 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by degall
By that time, anyway, after months of heavy promotion, it was probably too late. I don't know why people did not register during the months of heavy promotion on the western club reef boards.
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Dennis - I truely find this statement to be false. I did a search here on RC and did not come up with any threads (titles) that promote the IMAC LV.

Many regular RC members of MARS and BAR have stated that they didn't know anything about this conference .

I think the biggest hurdle you faced was the fact that you agreed to too many room nights with The Riviera. There are too many room options in Las Vegas and I would've stayed in a nicer hotel and dealt with the heat either walking or taking a taxi to the conference. But others are staying away from LV in August simply due to the heat.

110 degrees today in Vegas.
 
I have to agree with others about hotel options. I have been to LV a few times and would probably stay at the Venetian if I went. I have stayed at the Imperial Palace once and felt like I was in a motel 6. Don't know about the Riveria, but I do know Venitian is top knotch and plenty to do to keep my Wife entertained with a mall right down the road.

Is it possible to have a conference without a hotel quota? Though I like the idea of a conference in Las Vegas, it is probably the worst place to get folks in one hotel. i.e. people are going to say in a hotel that has a show or 2 they want to see for convenience.

Just my .02

JKH
 
Hey RasBobre, the reason your search did not find any threads on RC promoting IMAC LV is that RC considers IMAC a commercial venture and forbids me from starting any threads. I can only post here under Announcements (a policy they only just permitted recently).

I posted notices on the club boards of both MARS and BAR. I don't know how your friends missed them.

We meet that quota with IMAC Chicago and we thought we could do it in Vegas, especially since when we checked around we found the Riviera was one of the cheapest hotels we could find.

We thought (wrong, I guess) that the heat would discourage people from staying at another hotel and braving the long walk in the heat.

I guess we made a number of wrong decisions with IMAC LV, like having it a week before Reef-A-Palooza, which we didn't even know about when we scheduled IMAC LV.

Dennis
 
truth be told.... if you were hoping that west coast people were going to go to Vegas in the summer, that was your first mistake...

As Vegas is so close to us on the west coast to plan this event during the summer when it is hot and the kids are not in school was mis conceived. I think most people on the west coast avoid Vegas like the plague during the summer, we all go to the beach and try to stay cool...

Now if you were to have done this in say Oct/ Nov and not made me stay at your hotel i would have gone...

just my .02
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10264021#post10264021 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by degall
Hey RasBobre, the reason your search did not find any threads on RC promoting IMAC LV is that RC considers IMAC a commercial venture and forbids me from starting any threads. I can only post here under Announcements (a policy they only just permitted recently).

I posted notices on the club boards of both MARS and BAR. I don't know how your friends missed them.
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I think people missed them because the assumption with IMAC is that is a East/Midwest thing. Most people in MARS and BAR didn't know about IMAC LV, and I don't think that is the fault of the potential attendees, rather that it had something to do with the way the event was promoted. I think blaming potential attendees for not knowing about the brand new event is not a great way to engender current or future interest in the event.

I still hope the con happens!
 
Oh - there is another reason why BAR members might not have paid too much attention to IMAC LV - there is a club meeting on the Aug 11th scheduled for over a year.
 
<< signed up and hoping it will go forward. Chicago was good with great speakers and deals. I want to see if the left coast has stuff as great as they claim... LOL

Come on, you can DRIVE from LA !!!!
 
Very poor communication.....very poor planning.

My guess is that it is off.

Blaming the fact that Dennis could not create posts to publicize IMAC LV due to RC's policies is not an excuse.
 
If it is off I feel sorry for Dennis, He made one hell of an effort at Chicago this yr. My club, CMAS, help as well as we could and it seems most folks had a good time. I am / was looking forward to LV.

Hopefully bigger and better in Chicago next year.
 
I agree with Bebo. Plus when you throw in that Reef A Palooza is the following weekend in So. Cal. it makes it harder to convince the family to go to both events. I would still like to go, I have family in LV so accomadations are not an issue.
 
I hope we find out soon, cause i still plan to go to Vegas. If no event i will plan a trip to the Grand Canyon.
 
DAMN, I'm very disappointed that the IMAC conference is cancelled. I even convinced my gf that it was a business trip, and i was going SOLO. PLUS there is no way that this event should be based on the occupancy at the riveria, there are way too many hotel options in vegas. I've been to vegas at least 20 times and I would never stay at the riviera. there is only one true place in vegas. the HR

P.S. everyone is missing out on the best event of the year, besides IMAC......REHAB!!!! DAMN
 
IMAC LV Cancelled

IMAC LV Cancelled

Yes tcmike64, I'm also disappointed we had to cancel IMAC Las Vegas. Besides very low registrations we had to consider the low number of room reservations at the Riviera because, according to the contract, we had to guarantee them a certain number of room nights, so that was important too. I'm sorry you don't like the place but it was the only hotel with the meeting space we needed.

We're going to try and reschedule IMAC when the temperatures in Vegas aren't so high, since that was a big reason given by many for not signing up. The fact that they would be in air conditioning all day didn't seem to matter.

Cheers,
Dennis, Conference Chair
 
Re: IMAC LV Cancelled

Re: IMAC LV Cancelled

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10374261#post10374261 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by degall
Yes tcmike64, I'm also disappointed we had to cancel IMAC Las Vegas. Besides very low registrations we had to consider the low number of room reservations at the Riviera because, according to the contract, we had to guarantee them a certain number of room nights, so that was important too. I'm sorry you don't like the place but it was the only hotel with the meeting space we needed.

We're going to try and reschedule IMAC when the temperatures in Vegas aren't so high, since that was a big reason given by many for not signing up. The fact that they would be in air conditioning all day didn't seem to matter.

Cheers,
Dennis, Conference Chair
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If you need a minimum number of room nights to make a future conference happen, please make sure that is clear in your advertising and event related emails. I don't think it was at all clear this time around.
One of the reasons that people were thinking about heat is because they were thinking of staying at their favorite hotels, not at the Riviera (another reason is because it is also hot at night in Vegas in August, and yet another is because going out in 120 degrees is unpleasant even if you only have to do it a few times).
 
IMAC LV

IMAC LV

I'm sorry Thales. I thought everyone knew. Hotels don't make any money on conferences. Room rentals is where they they make it. But we will try to make that clear in future advertising.

The Riviera is one of the older hotels in Vegas, built back when hotels were interested in convention business. Nowadays, they are are only interested in gambling so they do not even have big meeting rooms, so our selection of hotels was quite limited. We are not big enough to use convention centers.

Well, we had a fantastic IMAC this year, all booths were sold out months in advance for the first time and everyone seemed to have a great time. It is unfortunate that we had to cancel IMAC Las Vegas due to lack of interest (or probably it was the thought of temperatures in Vegas in August). But we are trying to reschedule it for later in the winter and we will see what happens.

But we are well on our way in planning for the International Marine Aquarium Conference 2008 to be held in Chicago on May 30, 31 and June 1 of 2008. We already have Dr. Ron Shimek (2 presentations), Frank Burr, Dr. Sanjay Joshi, Bob Fenner and Anthony Calfo lined up with lots more to come. We will again have our popular “behind-the-scenes” tour of Shedd Aquarium on May 29th, and we are considering having a tour of LFS on Monday June 2. We hope we will again sell out the booths early so we will once again have a Great Trade Show.

So get over to www.theimac.org to sign up for IMAC and take advantage of Early Bird Registration Rates now in effect..
The conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and we hope you will stay there so it will count toward our room block.

Happy Reefkeeping,
Dennis
 
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