London Show Canceled Due to Attacks

Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 7/18/2005

The West London Higher Education Convention, scheduled to draw 7,000 high school students July 8 to Earls Court & Olympia, was canceled due to the July 7 terrorist attacks on transports in London.

Asian Lifestyle 2005, at the same venue, went on as scheduled July 8–10. The trade/public show, organized by London-based show management firm Himalaya Shows, Events & Exhibitions, was expected to attract 35,000 attendees to more than 240 exhibiting companies.

"The whole situation was too uncertain" to continue with the Higher Education event, said Virginia Isaac, director of communications for show sponsor Universities & Colleges Admissions Service, the central organization that processes applications for full-time undergraduate courses at U.K. universities and colleges. "We felt it was appropriate not to go ahead," she said.

The Higher Education show will be rescheduled at the venue in upcoming weeks, Isaac noted. The free UCAS Education Conventions are a series of more than 50 higher education conventions held every year throughout the U.K.