Logistics by city
NV — Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC)
FL — Orange County Convention Center — West Building
IL — McCormick Place — South Building
CA — Anaheim Convention Center
GA — Georgia World Congress Center
TX — Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center
NY — Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
From the blog
Deep-dive articles that expand on the playbooks above.
Exhibiting outside your home country adds 6 layers of complexity. Here's the checklist.
Miss the advance warehouse cutoff and you're paying express drayage. Here's the timeline.
Union halls don't have to be expensive. Here's what every exhibitor needs to know.
Crates determine drayage cost and damage risk. Here's how to spec them right.
Reusable booths, recycled materials, carbon-neutral shipping — what's worth paying for, what's marketing, and how to build a booth your sustainability team will actually approve.
Lighting is the single highest-ROI upgrade you can make to a booth. Here's how to plan it, what to spec, and the mistakes that wash out your brand.
Six graphic-design rules that make modular booths look custom — and the mistakes that make them look like a generic kit.
The shipping method choice that quietly determines whether your booth makes it to the show floor on time.
Carrier selection, crate prep, marshaling yards, and the freight insurance question almost everyone gets wrong.
The labor side of booth setup — union rules, rates, supervision, and the overtime traps most exhibitors hit once.
A field checklist for the person on the ground during install — what to brief, what to inspect, what to escalate.
Four lighting layers that lift booth perceived quality more than any other modest upgrade.
Frequently asked questions
What is drayage?
Drayage is the show contractor's charge to move your crated freight from the loading dock to your booth space and back. It's billed per 100 lbs, typically $90–$160+ per cwt, and is usually the single largest 'hidden' logistics cost.
Advance warehouse vs direct-to-show?
Advance warehouse: cheaper drayage, freight stored up to 30 days, no missed-truck risk. Direct-to-show: only viable for large freight on tight schedules, riskier, and often more expensive once overtime hits.
Can I unpack my own booth?
Depends on the city. Right-to-work venues (Las Vegas, Orlando) allow self-unpacking under specific rules; Chicago and most union cities require contracted labor for almost everything beyond hand-carry.