That's where Vegas and Orlando absolutely crush it for flights unless we are talking the big hubs like hotlanta, chi town, NYC, LA etc
I love Vegas but ASTRO would rate third class status (maybe appropriate but...)
Vegas would be great if at the same time of the consumer electronic show and that other conference..I love Vegas but ASTRO would rate third class status (maybe appropriate but...)
The data is precovid but check out the conference attendees in the Top 10 in Vegas
What and When Are the Biggest Las Vegas Conventions? | Las Vegas Advisor
What are the largest conventions that come to Las Vegas every year and when are they?www.lasvegasadvisor.com
ASTRO has been to SLC...the others are way too small for ASTRO (I have been all of them as it turns out and each is worth a visit; at the right time of year)
The adult entertainment show. I have been. Absolutely hilarious.
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Some of those cities probably couldn't support a conf honestly... Asheville traffic is bad enough as it is, not sure where the infrastructure would be to have thousands upon thousands of attendees.
Anecdotally, its a lot more than 40%. Easiest way to inflame them in my neck of the woods.
ASTRO needs to get bigger!! Haven't you been paying attention? It is a membership business. The more people we can claim then the more vendors will pay to exhibit. Growth is always the answer..(e.g GME)
Sounds like ACRO.... Minus the bench stuff
The quality may be better but ASTRO isn't interested in quality (the best stuff goes to ASCO anyway). ASTRO is interested in quantity. For every poster that is accepted the registration number increases. All about the Benjamins.
If you only have 250 posters, that probably means about 1000-1500 med students and residents who aren’t going to the conference in any given year…missing a lotta registration dollars right there
I think the time is ripe for some of the contents of such meetings to be moved into an online platform. Having ten session running in parallel is not really useful if there is no interaction between speakers and viewers. Some of these presentation can be moved to an online platform and viewed on demand (or whatever).
this would be correct IMO if the pupose of a meeting was TRULY just for sharing abstracts
ASTRO made it clear they had real budgetary issues when the in person meeting wasn't going to happen with covid in 2020.. iirc weren't they essentially trying to charge the same registration for virtual in the beginning which resulted in a huge uproar?
All the more reason to stay away when it is in a 2nd tier location.
Trying to pretend it's as important as asco maybe...
Exactly!
Isn’t that why we have organizations like the AMA? As a disclosure, I pretty much let all of my professional organization memberships lapse despite having reimbursement funds due to lack of alignment.
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