CHICAGO - Attendance for RSNA 2001 meeting is down 13 percent and exhibitor registration is down 10 percent from last year, the association announced on Tuesday.
Previously, conference organizers hoped for attendance to top 60,000 this year, but as of November 27, 2001’s total attendance ranked only 51,121—down 11 percent from 2000’s 57,436.
After September 11, organizers began to expect a decline in attendance this year. Word prior to the conference indicated that fewer European delegates would make the trip to Chicago in 2001 due to fallout from terrorism incidents. "Many European delegates are not going. Certainly, if anything further happens, I think the international delegation will be very much reduced," Prof. Janet Husband of the Royal Marsden NHS Trust’s academic diagnostic radiology department in an interview conducted shortly before this year’s RSNA meeting.
For those Europeans contacted by AuntMinnie.com, it was not a question of whether they wanted to attend, but how. A member of the Society and College of Radiographers and another delegate from another institute, both of whom asked not to be named, said their plane tickets to Chicago had been canceled by the airlines, forcing them to make new reservations.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
November 27, 2001
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