Is this the future of boat shows?

[Ka_sea_ta]

Anacortes is doing a virtual boat show. For the next two days you can have virtual tours or ask questions about selected boats and products using Zoom. Here's the link https://live.anacortesboatandyachtshow.com/default.asp


Not quite the same... but in these days this may be the next normal.

 

[Marco Flamingo]

I just got email notice of the virtual show. I didn't even open it. Like eating a virtual hamburger.

 

[Steve91T]

No

 

[BandB]

I think the smart show companies will use it in the future to augment their shows, but I do not think boat shows will be replaced long term. I equate it to buying a car. If you know in advance what you're going to buy, you don't need a showroom, you just buy online. But if you're shopping and looking you can use the internet to gather information but on a car you want to sit in it and test drive it. On a boat you want to walk aboard and check it out.

I think if they're smart every show will be prepared with a virtual alternative. However, I don't think builders and brokers will spend the money to bring boats to such a show, so it must be at multiple locations, wherever the boats are.

 

[Toki]

I've been doing virtual boat shows for years. Between Yachtworld, Craigslist and brokerage listings, there have always been hundreds of boats on virtual display, and real time discussions or videos are a phone call/Email/text message away. Not quite following the need to call this event a virtual boat show.