Is that southern hospitality you refer to the kind that has rental car companies raising their rates, restaurants pulling out the special "market menus' to reflect higher prices and hotels raising their rates as much as 70 dollars a night for a bed and a bathroom??Seems to me that this area could show a little more hospitality by not gouging the visitors.

So Las Vegas is having a furniture market this summer. Anybody ever been to Las Vegas in the summer? I think I'd prefer being in beautiful High Point during the spring or fall ANY day.

Mr. Griffith, I thought as you expressed until recently. Another blogger pointed out what happens in HP during furniture market is no different than any other seasonal event.

I started thinking about a family vacation I planned last year. I needed a large place as I was planning for my three sons and their families. I ended up spending about a thousand dollars more because it was "high" season. Had I planned earlier and had been able to select an "off season" rate I could have gotten a better deal.

Also, the year I lived in Puerto Rico I found the same practice to be true and that was in 1966-1967. After I had been buying groceries at the little neighborhood grocery/liquor store for a few weeks, the propriator asked if I was living there. I replied I was and asked why he asked. He told me his prices were reduced for people living on the island rather than just vacationing there.

Does that mean it is right to "gouge" our market visitors? I think not but I also think they expect it. I know I do when I travel for special events.

Go west, crack ho!

Let's see I've got an expense account and a week to use it in; would I rather go to High Point or Vegas? Tough choice - let's see there's the furniture market, the hookers in Vegas are legal, there's gambling, shows, or in high point there's the furniture market,the hookers are illegal, and there's........

Ain't too many around High Point who wind-up buried in the desert. . .

more likely for them to be buried in the dessert than the desert.....

I have been reading with interest the discussions on the new furniture market in Las Vegas. Having spent most of my adult life here in the triad I take particular interest in local events, jobs and companies. No one can dispute the High Point Furniture Market is a big boost to the local economy. What needs to be seriously discussed is the impact Las Vegas will have on the High Point Furniture market in 4 - 6 years. I expect it will take that long for the market in Vegas to fully compete with High Point. If not taken seriously and those in-charge do not address the numerous issues clients have expressed about attending the High Point Market - then I expect to see a reduction, if not closure, of the High Point Market. I also expect to see another attack to the High Point Market coming from Asia in 6 - 10 years. I expect to see China putting on an East Furniture Market in let's say Hong Kong since a majority of the furniture will be produced there. If you do not think this can or will happen, we only have to wait, do nothing, to see this come to past.