The BiZBash.com Idea Center, the online resource for event planning and business entertaining, and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center announced today (August 6) that they will co-host a trade show to showcase the New York City event, meeting and business entertaining marketplace October 11 at the Galleria & River Pavilion of the Javits Center,655 West 34th Street.  

The BiZBash Javits Event Expo 2001--The Fresh Idea Show, with more than 125 exhibitors showcasing their wares in key service categories, will feature the first-ever BiZBash Event Style Awards; educational forums on event style, promotion and technology; and a town meeting on the state of the event industry in New York and is free to attendees in the industry who will discover unique live entertainment ideas, innovative venue options, creative food presentations, new technology advances in events and general out-of-the-box thinking tips. The event planning industry in New York, a $4 billion industry that stages 100,000 events annually, is long overdue for a trade show of this size.

"The Fresh Idea Show will bring buyers and sellers of event services face to face and allow creativity to explode," said Richard Aaron, CMP, CSEP, president of BiZBash. "For many who are not full-time event planners, this show will open up a whole new world of possibilities and offer entree into the vibrant event community in New York City. For professional event planners the show will recharge creative juices in the most exciting city in the world.

" According to Myles McGrane of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, one of the city's most versatile facilities noted for trade shows and conventions accommodating groups from 10 people to 18,000 people, "Javits has done an effective job of selling New York to the world.

Now we want to focus on working in our own neighborhood to encourage use of the Javits Center for corporate special events and meetings. We are pleased to be joining BiZBash in hosting this event and look forward to many fresh ideas for using our facilities.

" At The Fresh Idea Show, BiZBash will attempt to establish a Guiness World Record for the largest nametag ever made and a second record for the largest event goodie bag! For more information and to register to attend, visit BiZBash.com or call 800.BiZBash (800.249.2274). The BiZBash.com Idea Center is a free online and offline resource center for special events and business entertaining professionals that was created to fill a real need: to find localized "nooks and crannies" information to help in producing effective events.

BiZBash.com is the most extensive database of the best event resources with more than 5,000 resources--caterers, DJs, florists, cookie makers--and has pages of industry gossip, personality profiles and coverage of all types of parties and events..