New York City is a toxic cocktail of absurdly expensive facilities (both convention center and hotel rooms) and fannish politics (New York fandom can't pull together and form a single bid). I'd be surprised if we ever go back there.
Actually, Worldcon isn't really a good fit for first-tier cities. We're too cheap. We're better off going to second-tier cities that built convention centers and need to fill them, and will therefore offer good deals. However, Worldcons who get those good deals need to show them reflected in their membership rates, rather than simply charging what their recent predecessors charged.
If the members can expect to pay about the same whether the convention is in First Class City or Podunktown, expect them to pick the city where they can have the better time if the convention goes all pear-shaped. (Call this the "Nolacon Factor," and it was probably a contributor to San Francisco winning the 1993 Worldcon, as the organizational disaster of the 1988 Worldcon was still fresh on people's minds.
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Date: 2007-07-15 07:37 pm (UTC)Actually, Worldcon isn't really a good fit for first-tier cities. We're too cheap. We're better off going to second-tier cities that built convention centers and need to fill them, and will therefore offer good deals. However, Worldcons who get those good deals need to show them reflected in their membership rates, rather than simply charging what their recent predecessors charged.
If the members can expect to pay about the same whether the convention is in First Class City or Podunktown, expect them to pick the city where they can have the better time if the convention goes all pear-shaped. (Call this the "Nolacon Factor," and it was probably a contributor to San Francisco winning the 1993 Worldcon, as the organizational disaster of the 1988 Worldcon was still fresh on people's minds.