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The 2006 Golf Industry Show, as well as the education conferences sponsored by the Golf Course Superintendents Association and National Golf Course Owners Association will be moved to Houston as a result of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. The event was intended to be held in New Orleans.
New Orleans officials announced this week that all convention activities through March 2006 would be cancelled. As such GCSAA and NGCOA set their sights farther west to Texas.
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The conference events are still scheduled for the same dates as originally planned. The GCSAA Education Conference will be Feb. 6 through 11, the NGCOA Solutions Summit will be Feb. 8 to 10 and the Golf Industry Show will be Feb. 9 through 11. Additionally, The GCSAA National Golf Championship and Golf Classic will be played at five Houston-area golf courses, Feb. 4 through 6, as had been originally scheduled.
“Our first concern is with the people of the gulf coast,” said Steve Mona, GCSAA CEO. “Our intent was to conduct the activities in New Orleans if at all possible. However, with New Orleans officials announcing the cancellation of all convention activities through March, it forced us to select an alternative location. We found that Houston offered the necessary housing, meeting and trade show space; and enabled us to keep the same dates we had for New Orleans.”
Registration, housing and travel booking have been tentatively rescheduled to begin Nov. 1. Both GCSAA and NGCOA are working with exhibiting companies to reconfigure the trade show floor. For up-to-date information on the changes, Click Here.