On 28 Apr 2005 04:59:58 GMT, (Blanche Cohen)
wrote:

And just how much do you think Airventure grosses that week?

Let's see...how many visitor per day? Lowball it at 10K per day.
Assume half are EAA members at $20/day and the other half are
paying the $30. Times 6 days = 1.5M USD.

A real lowball! How about the "camping" fees. If 70% are members,
10K relates to 450 people a day. Let's assume that everyone is a
member and stays 1 day. 200,000 X 20 = 4,000,000. My guess is that
it's around $15 million in admission, camping and the rest. A friend
exhibits, or did exhibit, and was paying $2400 for a 10 foot booth, or
whatever the smallest was, inside. Had to be there and manned the
entire time. How many booths are there and what are the sizes? then
there's the outdoor vendors, the split from the junk sale, the
exorbitant prices the food vendors must pay and everything else.
Makes a fine living for the little pober boy. And to top it all off,
all of those fine people working the event are volunteers. God bless
them, but I wouldn't do that for free for that organization if my life
depended on it. If they paid me $1.00 a day, it would be different.

Now about those exhibitors...and sponsors, etc. Every single one of
them pays a substantial fee. Don't know what the fee/sq ft is but
I've been involved with very large technical trade shows over the
years and it aint cheap. I'd make a WAG and say that more than
$25M comes in from the exhibit fees.