Dear Friend of Creative Screenwriting and the Screenwriting Expo,
A few weeks ago, we surveyed both 2007 Screenwriting Expo registrants and potential 2008 attendees, asking for your preferred locations for the 2008 Expo.
We then went out and investigated numerous sites.
Now, we're asking for your final vote on two alternatives. It's quick-just click where it says below and respond to the few multiple-choice questions.
First, here are some of the key factors that went into this narrowing:
1. Los Angeles location.
Many respondents suggested other cities, especially New York City. We had to rule this out, we're sorry to say, due to practical realities. About half of Expo registrants come from the Los Angeles area, the other half from all over the world. We know that making half of you travel is an inconvenience. We apologize. But making 95% of all registrants, and most speakers, travel to a distant location would inconvenience everyone, reduce registrations, make it difficult to get great speakers, and raise our costs.
2. Prices of hotel rooms and food.
The way the meeting business works at hotels, we have to guarantee a certain number of guest room sales and a certain amount of food and beverage sales, or the hotel won't give us the meeting space. Some hotels with available space wanted guest room rates of $180/night and up, with commensurately higher food costs.
3. Size of venue.
The two Universal Citywalk hotels were suggested by many. Their combined meeting space is much too small. The same is true of a number of other choices.
So help us decide where to hold the 2008 Expo by voting here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Thank you very much.
Bill Donovan
Executive Manager
The Screenwriting Expo
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