Unable to either get companies off the waiting list or allow existing exhibitors to expand, the Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting that SHOT Show will be expanding to two more Las Vegas Strip locations by 2021. SHOT will expand into the MGM Grand Conference Center in 2020 and will add Caesars Forum in 2021. With that expansion, SHOT will occupy 950,000 square feet by 2021. This year’s show covered about 650,000. The expansions will allow the show to grow to accommodate 2,600 exhibitors. According to NSSF Senior VP and CMO, Chris Dolnack, nearly 1,000 exhibitors were turned away from this year’s edition. Today, SHOT Show ranks as Las Vegas’ seventh largest annual show by attendance, bringing an estimated 60,000 industry professionals and 2,100 exhibitors.
