Annual
Gentlemen’s Club Owners Expo Set For The Mirage In Las Vegas,
August 21-24
EXPO
Looks To The Future Of The Adult Nightclub Industry
“Generation Next,” with a focus on the future of the
adult nightclub industry in general and the next wave of club ownership
and management in particular, will be the theme of the 19th Annual
Gentlemen’s Club Owners Expo this August 21-24, 2011 at the
luxurious Mirage Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
For
19 years, ED Publications, the adult nightclub industry’s
trade magazine, has produced the Annual Gentlemen’s Club Owners
Expo, the only national convention and tradeshow for the multi-billion-dollar
adult nightclub industry. The Expo draws more than 3,000 attendees,
including over 1,700 club owners, general managers, and club personnel
from individual clubs and club chains. Other Expo attendees include
liquor, beer and wine distributors; food and beverage companies;
club furnishings and bar products companies; attorneys, architects,
club brokers and insurance specialists; and sound, lighting and
staging companies.
“This
year, 2011, marks the 20-Year Anniversary of ED Publications as
the industry’s trade magazine, and over the past two decades,
we have seen a lot of changes in our industry,” says ED Publisher
Don Waitt. “These aren’t the Charlie’s Angels
big-hair days anymore; we’re in the Facebook world today,
so it makes sense at this year’s Expo to focus on what the
future holds for our industry.”
Tying
in with the “Generation Next” theme, the Expo’s
popular series of Industry Workshops for club general managers and
other club personnel will follow an “Old School Versus New
School” format to compare the best styles of management and
marketing from then and now. The new technologies available to club
owners will be addressed in a “21st Century Toys” panel
session, and the convention’s team of top-ranked First Amendment
attorneys will field a “Future Law” panel session.
“As
more of our industry’s founders and leaders approach retirement
age and their sons and daughters and most valued employees start
to take over club operations, it will also be interesting to see
how this ‘Next Generation’ of club operators run the
business compared to how their predecessors did it,” says
Waitt. With that in mind, a highlight of Expo 2011 will be the “Changing
of the Guard” panel session where current club owners and
their children who are also in the business will debate management
styles and philosophies.
After
a long run at the spectacular Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino,
the Expo moved last year to Mandalay’s sister property, The
Mirage Resort & Casino. Attendee response was so favorable,
that the 2011 Expo will again be held at The Mirage, where the hotel
is offering Expo attendees an incredibly discounted room rate (call
800-499-6311 and ask for Expo room rate).
Even
with three days of workshops and panel sessions and two days of
a 350-booth tradeshow, it’s not all business at Expo 2011.
They don’t call Las Vegas “Sin City” for nothing,
and the Expo’s lively group of club owners and entertainers
are treated to two nights of private, industry parties at Vegas’s
hottest nightspots, and also to ED Publications’ 2011 Awards
Show in a Vegas showroom hosted by a nationally known comedian.
For
more info on the 2011 Gentlemen’s Club Owners EXPO, including
early registration discounts for attendees and tradeshow exhibitors,
call (727) 726-3592 or visit www.EDPublications.com
today.
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