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Watch for Show-Day Exhibitor News
Delivered Daily to Your Inbox
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Providing updates on attendance, media exposure, and other important news, our digital Show-Day Exhibitor News will be delivered direct to your inbox each morning of the 2017 Toronto Boat Show, January 20 - 29.
If you have additional booth staff, etc., who would like to receive Show-Day Exhibitor News, please drop by the Show Office, Salon 103, and request that they be added to our distribution list.
- Spreading the Word That Boating is Affordable
- Need for Safety Gear & Garbage Removal
- 8,000 Boaters Using Boat Finder
- Shuttle Bus Service to/from Boat Show & Official Show Hotels
- New Product Balloons Mark the Spot
- Buy or Sell a Boat - and WIN!
- Mandarin Translation Available
- Take a Break & Grab a Bite to Eat at the Exhibitor Lounge
- Show Bags Popular With Attendees
- Onsite Inspections by Health Canada - Consumer Product Safety
- Water Safety Awareness Day - Tuesday, January 24
- RSVP for Industry Breakfast - Tuesday, January 24
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Spreading the Word That
Boating is Affordable
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As our extensive advertising and promotions campaigns continue to roll out across the province, along with messaging that boating is affordable and life is better with a boat, we look forward to welcoming exhibitors to the 59th annual Toronto Boat Show next week!
Changing the perception of some that boating is expensive, communications from Holmes PR highlight affordability and that the boating lifestyle is achievable.
Watch also for our full page feature in the Toronto Star, Monday, January 16 (shown here), and a full media buy summary in the first edition of Show-Day Exhibitor News, Friday, January 20.
Have you been using the free online promotional materials provided for exhibitors? If not, click here and start today!
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Need for Safety Gear
& Garbage Removal
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 Safety Awareness
Floor managers will be on the show floor to ensure a safe and timely move-in. Please keep safety top of mind while moving in boats, working around cranes, and setting up temporary platforms. The safety engineer will be around to inspect temporary platforms and structures, starting Monday, January 16.
Request to help with Removal of Garbage
During move-in, we also encourage exhibitors to remove their own shrinkwrap, skids, and leftover wood from the Enercare Centre. As the show is charged for garbage removal from the floor, these efforts help keep space costs down. For garbage remaining on the show floor, there will be many large bins placed around the halls. Please use them; it helps keep labour costs down, and the floor safe and clean.
If you have move-in related questions, please call Shawn McConnell at 416-574-9826.
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8,000 Boaters Using Boat Finder
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FREE Shuttle Bus Service to/from
Boat Show & Official Show Hotels
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January 20 - 29, FREE Shuttle Buses run between:
- the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel and the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel;
- and the Toronto Boat Show at the Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place (Hall B, Galleria Lobby).
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New Product Balloons Mark the Spot
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It's not too late to get on board with this program, which sends consumers and media straight to your booth!
New Product balloons clearly identify where New Products are located at the 2017 Toronto Boat Show, and next week
we will be delivering balloons to exhibit space of those who submitted information to our online
New Product Showcase
and requested to also participate in the onsite program.
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Buy or Sell a Boat - and WIN!
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Cynthia Hare presents a $10,000 cheque to Bob & Angie Tilbury of Kitchener, ON, to offset the purchase of the 18' Legend they bought from Becky Gardhouse at the 2016 Toronto Boat Show. |
The Buy a Boat & Win program returns as an important tool to help close the sale! An added incentive for the consumer to buy at the show, this program offers the boat-buyer the chance to enter to win $10,000 toward the cost of his or her boat purchased at the show!
The program hostess visits dealers daily to collect Buy a Boat & Win ballots completed at point of sale, and
each day a draw awards $100
to a dealer who sold a boat that day.
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Mandarin Translation Available
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Exhibitors in need of a Mandarin translator are invited to contact Wendy McCarroll in the Show Office, Salon 103, to inquire about translation services.
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Take a Break & Grab a Bite to Eat
at the Exhibitor Lounge
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Located in Salon 102 (just west of the Show Office), the Exhibitor Lounge offers a quiet break from the show, FREE internet service, and daily soup, salad, and sandwich specials for exhibitors.
Thank you to our 2017 Exhibitor Lounge sponsors: Wells Fargo and Boatdealers.ca.
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Show Bags Popular With Attendees
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Thank you to Yamaha and MD Marine Insurance, sponsors of the complimentary, reusable bags show-goers receive as they enter the boat show.
It's a great way for them to start their shopping day - with smiles and a show bag to carry important research and boating information from North America's largest indoor boat show!
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Onsite Inspections by Health Canada, Consumer Product Safety
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As in previous years, Health Canada, Consumer Product Safety, will be onsite at the Toronto Boat Show, conducting routine inspections.
This is to ensure products sold are compliant with Canada Consumer Product Safety Act regulations, and to educate and inform retailers, importers, manufacturers and distributors about the regulations.
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Water Safety Awareness Day
Tuesday, January 24
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The media and public are being invited to attend Water Safety Awareness Day on Tuesday, January 24. It coincides with the 10
th
Annual
Anchors Aweigh, a popular boat show tradition and media draw during which first-responders relay race in The Lake from 11:30am-12pm.
As we create awareness and provide education around the topic of water safety throughout the day, we invite exhibitors in this category to be available for media interviews.
If you are interested in participating in our Water Safety Awareness Day on Tuesday, January 24, please contact show manager Cynthia Hare (905-951-4054).
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The annual breakfast hosted by NMMA Canada takes place at the Allstream Centre, Exhibition Place, on Tuesday, January 24. (Shuttle buses from the Sheraton and Westin will start to run at 8am.)
Highlights include the NMMA Canada Annual General Meeting;
an Industry Update and Release of the New Economic Impact Study; a Discover Boating Canada Update; Keynote Speaker
Tim Quinlan from Wells Fargo; and presentation of the
NMMA Canada 2017 Hall of Fame Award.
Limited seating. Breakfast begins at 8:30am and is complimentary, but you must RSVP to attend.
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