Overheard on the Showfloor

Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 4/30/2007

"I love Chicago, just not in the wintertime. I won't do a meeting here in January."

—Reggie Sears, speaking on the ABCs of Site Selection at the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Assn. Affordable Meetings event, in Chicago, April 11–12

"You can get cheap rooms in Palm Springs in August, if you can stand 115-degree weather."

—Sears

"We used to do lots. Now, we're looking more at niche shows."

—Todd Kern, director of marketing for Killer Tracks, on the company's new tradeshow schedule, at NAB (Las Vegas, April 16–19)