Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has scared off millions of dollars worth of business from his state with his extremist, bigoted agenda.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has scared off millions of dollars worth of business from his state with his extremist, bigoted agenda.
Florida wasn’t a good spot for conventions anyways, geographically speaking.
It’s an attractive location during the winter because of the warm climate, that’s pretty much it, but in terms of being a accessible location, yeah it’s going to be out of the way for a lot of people considering it’s in one of the four corners of the country.
Historically, Florida is the 2nd most visited state in the US, and a surprisingly small percentage of those people are visiting for Disney World. Seems like this is rapidly changing because of how toxic the politics are there, but if we put all that aside, there are legit reasons why it’s such a hotbed for tourism, so it would make sense why conventions would be booked here despite being a poor choice geographically.
The arguments for Florida travel seem more like an argument for Florida vacations. When I go to a convention, I don’t much care if Disney is there or whatever. I’m there for the convention.
That doesn’t even make any sense. As long as you have airport access, geographics barely matter to a convention that is held indoors.
If you want warm weather, beaches & real theme parks within driving distance & cheaper than California & Hawaii, Florida is (was) the place to go.
It matters a lot when you consider that air travel costs time and money. Assuming someone’s not profiting in some way off the convention (either as a vendor at a fan convention or networking at a business convention), distance matters a whole lot to their choice to go to that convention. If it’s a fan-con and not a super niche one, people will simply go to their nearest con unless given a compelling reason to go to Florida.
On the anime con side of things, Florida’s largest con is Metrocon with a paltry 10000, which would be the 3rd or 4th largest convention in a state like Illinois.
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Oh yeah. It was a huge benefit for Florida. Florida might’ve had a great convention center, but I still maintain that if conventions moved somewhere a bit more central they’d be able to grow more.