As industry-friendly cities with more permissive indoor smoking regulations, New Orleans and Las Vegas are set to be the sole venues for the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show through 2030.
In a conference offered online, the executive director of the PCA, Scott Pearce, confirmed that the 2025 (april 11-14) and 2026 (april 17-20) editions of the trade show will be held at the facilities of the New Orleans Convention Center, which he described as one of the few spaces capable of accommodating an event as large as this, which gathers leaders from the global tobacco industry.
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In this sense, he explained that the 2024 edition, held in Las Vegas, registered an influx of 2,200 attendees, 120 new retailers and close to 70 percent of continuous attendance compared to the 2023 edition.
In addition, he announced that by 2027, the event will return to Nevada, where it will seek to have a space in one of the different halls of a renovated Las Vegas Convention Center throughout 2027, 2028 and 2029. Since the change of dates for the beginning of the year makes it difficult to find days of availability at the Sands Expo at The Venetian hotel, where it had been taking place until 2024.
The PCA Deputy Executive Director, Joshua Habursky; the Director of Membership Development and Industry Relations, Lisa Sigler; the Director of Trade Show and Events, Lisa Cox; and the Director of Content, Antoine Reid, attended the conference.
