Last week saw the annual two-day Konfex fair at Eriksbergshallen. It’s a fair, not open to the public, dealing with the competitive meeting industry. Yesterday a conference was just a conference. The last few years have seen a change towards bigger events where the conference only is a (sometimes small) part of the event. No meeting today is complete without entertainment, outdoor adventures, good food or other diversions as a part of the package.
It’s a tough business and everybody with a venue big enough wants in: hotels (Säröhus), cinemas (Bergakungen), museums (Universeum) and amusement parks (Liseberg), to give a few local examples. Put all these event producing people together for two days in a limited space and they will have to be creative to get the buyers attention.
Candy, chocolate, mini-semlas, salmon tidbits and other things to put in your mouth compete to draw you into the stand. Perhaps the most attention grabbing effort was the Mexican larvae from Säröhus. If you ate one you could participate in a competion, still no prize guarantee. They didn’t wiggle, people find it harder to put wiggling things into their bodies. We wanted to catch one going into someone’s mouth, but there were no takers, despite our active help to find candidates. They say that they found and bought the small creatures on the Internet, which sounds safe.
Universeum brought their penises along as usual, they are safe attention grabbers, and make for good quiz material. Which dick sticks to which animal? I was promised the solution after the fair, but is still kept wondering
Is he dead, or alive? Is he an actor or a dummy? Or both? Did he sign any deals for confereces at Hotel Gasten? Do they take in living guests? Or is it only an attention grabber for Liseberg?
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