Organizers say Comedian-Con could outbid San Diego on hotel pricing

San Diego Comedian-Con celebrates its 55th^th Annually July 24-28, but how long will the arena’s oldest and largest popular culture festival remain in its namesake city? As hundreds of fans are on the point of forming their strategies for the annual birthday party of all issues, convention organizers are raising a threat to the city’s hospitality industry that the wave situation with resort pricing is unsustainable and could impact The display is planned for when its lease arrives with the San Diego Conference Center in 2025.

“I would never do that want to leave, but if the pressure increases and it becomes untenable for us, it’s something we definitely have to look at,” said the head of Comedians-Con World, the nonprofit task force working on SDCC. said David Glanzer, conversation and technology officer. and WonderCon, in a telephone interview on Monday. “As event planners, we are approached by different cities all the time and it would be remiss of us not to at least acknowledge this.”

When asked if the show would be locked into San Diego for 2025, Glanzer replied, “2025 is when our contract expires, unless something happens before the convention this year. And if so, I think we’ll make an announcement during the show.”

The important point for convention is the habits of one of the important lodges within the branch. For many years, SDCC has negotiated handicap fees for the rooms they sell at cheaper rates to out-of-town attendees, exhibitors, professionals, and visitors. In most cases, additional deluxe lodges within walking distance of the convention center are available for $275-335/night, and those that are additional can be available for as little as $215 on the con’s resort web page for registered attendees . Competition for rooms in exotic hotels has become so intense that the occasions when explicit reservations are made have come to be called “hotelkapielse”.

Recently, Glanzer said some lodges were building fewer rooms within blocks, knowing they might be able to pay lead dollars in the obvious market. Rates for non-block rooms during Comedian-Con weekend at one of the larger hotels can be two or three times the normal Majestic season rate, or even smaller lodges within the branch and Airbnb profit from peak demand. Towing charges may be quite high. Now those opportunistic habits are threatening to choke the yellow swan that brings hundreds of thousands of vacationers and hundreds of thousands of dollars to the city a year.

“Many of the hotels in the city have been incredibly wonderful to us,” Glanzer said. “They have allowed us to use the meeting space, they have given us spacious rooms, they have kept their rates very competitive. But it’s hard when those hotels offer competitive rates and then the hotel that chooses not to stay in the room block charges exorbitant amounts of money. “This means that the people who work with us ultimately lose.”

Glanzer said the infection is worsening despite additional lodges being built within reach. “It has nothing to do with supply. This relates to the blocks of rooms allocated in those properties.”

Glanzer said he understands that some high-end exhibitors, Hollywood studios and professionals are willing to pay higher fees, but the main focus of Comedian-Con is to keep the development affordable for regular attendees. That essential group of superfans coming to SDCC from around the world creates the dimension, effort and value of profitable growth for exhibitors and powers the billions of qualified media impressions that the Con generates at each opportunity.

“If attendees choose not to come because they can’t afford hotel accommodations here, they will go to another conference. And if that started happening, studios wouldn’t be able to make as big an impact, and it would become a downward spiral that no one would want to go down. If we can’t accommodate people who want to be on the show, we’re in a very bad situation.”

With its rent due and longtime SDCC Executive Director Faye Desmond stepping down from a full-time position with the group closest to the occasion, CCI is at a critical juncture. Wave boards and a new audience may be in danger of finding alternatives elsewhere if this growth is limited by the additional costs of developing and accommodating the vast and growing target market for comics, entertainment, art, collectibles, video games, movies and populations. Provides possibility. Comedian-Con has become the center of popular culture.

“I think there’s a perception that because we opened the Comic-Con Museum here (in San Diego) and our show is always here, that we’re tied to San Diego and can never leave. Well, we’re leaving. Don’t want to, but we’ve run conventions in Oakland, San Francisco, Anaheim, San Jose and I think there are a lot of other science fiction conventions that I’ve attended. According to his experience, the city will bid for the convention.

Glanzer also pointed out that Comedian-Con has been hampered by the capacity of the San Diego convention center, and several ballot measures have failed to make an impact. “We are grateful that the city allows us to have outside activities that allow us to create a campus environment, and we want to be here and make it work. But if our attendees find it too challenging, it would be unfair of us not to consider possible other locations.

For Comedian-Con, which is consistently slow in the pitch of its communications, the message organizers are sending two weeks before its marquee match couldn’t be clearer.