Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON

Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by weinzierl on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:42AM (#39257743)

"I suspect Caesar's dropped DEF CON because the DEF CON attendees likely have a fairly low "avg revenue per attendee" yield because fewer of them gamble compared to the avg Vegas conference attendee."

There is the story that the American Physical Society was not allowed back after in 1986 Vegas supposedly suffered its worst week in history.

First of all there is no real evidence that this story is true and secondly it doesn't make sense to me that they would cancel DEF CON after so many years for that reason. They would have done so much earlier, probably.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39668/did-a-cas...

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Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by elashri on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:30AM (#39258002)

I heard this story many times. One of them was froma graduate student who attended this meeting. APS March meeting happened in Las Vegas again last year (2023). While there was no official ban for APS Conferences, there was a little interest in las vegas to host anything for APS for a ~35 years.

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