Yachting industry suffers - Liverpool Boat Show cancelled

3:14 AM Wed 16 Feb 2011 GMT

'London Boat Show - 'a commercial disaster' according to MIE' .

There's nothing that shows the effect that difficult financial times have had on the yachting industry more than what happens at boat shows. Britain's Liverpool Boat Show, scheduled for April 2011, is the most recent casualty, with its cancellation just two months prior to its opening. After the dismal figures of the London Boat Show in January, organisers of the event, Marine Industry Events (MIE) decided to call it off. While the BBC reports that talks are under way to decide if an alternative event can be staged instead of the cancelled show, whatever eventuates will probably be nothing like ...

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