Linkster, CES and AEE open on the same day, so the influence is about the same... on that particular hotel, yes, AEE has an effect, but AEE doesn't have an effect on the prices at NYNY or Tropicana or whatever... and they are all priced insane for the same time period.
The ventian will likely not have very much space available for larger functions, as most of the other space is rented out to companies doing stuff for CES (display areas, product demos, and whatnot). It is almost impossible to get ballroom space from Wednesday to Sunday... stuff is all taken up and busy. I think you will see every bar, every room, and every hospitality suite overrun with CES geeks. Our show(s) are merely a drop in the bucket compared to CES attendance. 135,000+ people:
http://www.cesweb.org/press/news/rd_...l.asp?id=10481
The AEE show is held with the CES show because there is a huge number of people in town, business types, who are usually travelling without a wife or other distractions, often alone or only with coworkers. They can easily slide away for a couple of hours to go drool on pornstars. AEE run one week later would not be anywhere near as successful a show, attendance wise. Moving the Internext show to the days right after that wouldn't help very much, as the hotel rooms are still pricey and would require most companies to pay high price rooms anyway for setup time and whatnot.
It is truly a no win situation.
The only thing it does do is make the Florida show hotel prices look sweet.
Alex