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.
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.