Wade Vandervort
Attendees collect at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at the Tough Rock Hotel Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019.
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A common adult leisure awards present became the latest Las Vegas conference to announce an all-electronic structure for 2021.
AVN Media Community reported in a news release Friday that the AVN Awards Show, which was scheduled to choose location in late January at Virgin Resorts Las Vegas, will go on as a virtual software due to the fact of fears about the coronavirus pandemic.
Virgin Hotels Las Vegas is the former Tough Rock Hotel property, which is undergoing a facelift beneath new possession.
“The wellness and basic safety of our attendees and exhibitors is our best priority, so we have produced the tough selection to not hold our January activities in individual,” stated Tony Rios, CEO of AVN Media Community, in a statement.
Earlier this 7 days, organizers of the yearly CES gadget clearly show, a single of the greatest-attended trade shows in Las Vegas, also canceled their in-human being activities.
In 2019, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Site visitors Authority, the town welcomed more than 42 million readers. About a person-sixth of all those people arrived for a conference.
Because of coronavirus-relevant journey worries and fret about substantial gatherings, visitation numbers for Southern Nevada will virtually certainly be drastically decrease for 2020.