Choices – Time & Date and Location

When we were planning this conference, we were focused on picking a time between other conferences (Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York, the Sedo Pro Partner Forum and T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under) that allows attendees to decide which event they want to visit without having to travel from one to the next. On top of this, we had to consider availability of the hotel and the timing around Canadian and US holidays.

The downside to so many considerations is compromise. So it’s less than perfect that we are ending our conference on during the Jewish New Year period (Yom Kippur), but it is a choice we had to make.

Now why did we pick Niagara Falls as our location, you may ask. Well, especially after attending the SedoPro Partner Forum last year, I realized how important it can be to “get away from it all”. But we still had the challenge of picking a place that is somewhat easy to reach for travelers. If I remember my taxi ride from the Miami Airport to TRAFFIC in Florida correctly, it took about the same time it would take you to get to Niagara Falls from the Buffalo, NY (BUF) airport or from Hamilton, ON (YHM) or just a tad longer than coming from Toronto Pearson, ON (YYZ).

Plus US citizens now have the advantage of crossing the border in Niagara Falls, which means that they do not need a passport in order to come into Canada, which they would need when they do fly into Canada directly.

A problem for smokers may be our choice of hotel – Marriott, which, like most of the big hotel chains, does not offer smoking rooms any more. Unfortunately none of the hotels that ended up in our final selection offered this option, despite one of our planning members being a smoker herself. I do hope though that we’ll still have some warm fall days so our smoking attendees will not be freezing outside.

We’ve been trying to think of everyone.