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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 291756" data-attributes="member: 2525">Actually, I think large cities are a bad idea, for the same reasons you mentioned (it's too expensive).  That's why I was mentioning convention cities, not large cities.  Convention cities are locations somewhat near a large city, with no worse than one-hop flights from a hub airport, who have huge capacity for a convention (hotels, parking, cabs, and non-convention entertainment).  On the west coast, the convention cities I know about include Anaheim, San Diego, and Las Vegas.  All three have huge hotel capacity, parking capacity, frequent cabs, and non-convention entertainment.   A large portion of the local economy is from the tourist service industry.As far as I know (though I could be wrong) Indianapolis, Cleveland, St. Louis and Louisville are not convention cities.  Those are cities mostly not based on the tourist service industry.In addition, air faire and central location in the US have almost no relationship at all.  Air faire is based almost entirely on the location of the city in question with respect to the nearest hub airport.  You will often find that air faire to, say, the Las Vegas, will be cheaper for a person on the east coast (as will hotels), than air faire to Indianapolis, even though geographically Indianapolis is closer.Ultimately, the Con will have to move to a convention city, if it is going to grow into the Con it could be.</blockquote>