Report from SCI first day.
Nashville seems to be a hit with the exhibitors. Show has about the usual number of booths and guides/PHs.
Exhibit hall is well laid out. Everyone I talk to is glad to out of Vegas.
Hunts are selling.
I didn't mind Vegas or Reno.
That said, I live in Michigan so Nashville is much easier and cheaper for my wife and I to get to. Can drive it. I hope it stays in Nashville for a while.
I just wish it was closer to the time of the DSC Convention. I know several PHs that just could not stay over in the U.S. for the time required to do both and most of those chose the DSC Convention if they had to do one or the other.
And a PH that I am a repeat client of went home after DSC because he is actually hunting with a client this week.
They should move the SCI show earlier in the year, closer to the time of the DSC show but I suspect the Nashville Convention Center was already booked until this week given that it was a new show in Nashville. Hopefully they can work to get scheduled a couple weeks earlier if they are staying in Nashville.
