Overheard on the Showfloor

Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 1/30/2006

"These days, exhibitors have less time with attendees because, as soon as they get on the showfloor, they're busy checking their voice mail and e-mail."

—John Stuttard, vice president, Reed Exhibitions, at the Professional Convention Management Assn. Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, Jan. 8–11)

"It's Europe without the jet lag."

—Charles LaPointe, Tourisme Montreal president and CEO, during the PCMA meeting

"Impressive."

—Sandy Angus, Intl. Assn. for Exhibition Management chairman, describing Las Vegas Sands' Venetian Macao resort, during a site tour

"If a product costs $1 here (in China) and sells for $10, the other $9 usually goes to the U.S. through American-contracted services. It's usually an American that buys it for $1 and another American that sells it for $10."

—Angus, on the trade deficit, at the China Expo Forum for Intl. Cooperation, (Jan. 11–13, Guangzhou, China)

"Two casinos don't make a gaming destination."

—Cliff Wallace, managing director, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, comparing recent development in Singapore with that of Macau

"We will make an unrelenting effort to push this development (of China's convention and exhibition industry) forward."

—Gao Yan, vice chairwoman, China Council for the Promotion of Intl. Trade, during her welcome speech at CEFCO