Summer NAMM Show to Leave Nashville After 2004
(Press Release | Posted 2003-11-08)
Citing the need for a larger venue to accommodate the growing number of exhibitors and attendees, NAMM, the International Music Products Association, announced that Indianapolis, Indiana, and Austin, Texas, will host the association's future Summer Session trade shows on a rotating schedule beginning with Indianapolis in 2005 and followed by Austin in 2006. The 2004 Summer Session will once again be held in Nashville, the show's location for the past 11 years.
NAMM began researching new locations after the city of Nashville announced that it would not be expanding its current convention center or constructing a new facility in the foreseeable future. NAMM's decision followed several years of research and due diligence including a NAMM Member survey, as well as a nationwide evaluation of more than 20 potential host cities and convention centers.
In the survey commissioned by NAMM from Precision Reports, which demonstrated a record number of responses by NAMM Members, approximately 70 percent of respondents voted for a location other than Nashville. Specifically, 66 percent of responding 2003 Summer Session exhibitors preferred to change the location of the show. More than 84 percent of responding buyers who have not attended the Summer Session in recent years chose a different location for future shows and the majority of responding buyers who attended in 2003 (approximately 6 out of 10) voted to hold the show in a location other than Nashville. Finally, the survey also revealed that the majority of respondents favored rotating the show's location from year to year.
Over the past ten years, NAMM has seen it's membership nearly double, while the total Summer Session attendance and number of exhibitors more than doubled to 23,000 and 543 respectively.
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