One of the number one questions that we keep hearing is "When will hotel reservations open?"
We'll be updating our travel pages soon*, and there will be lots of hotel information in the PR coming out in the next month. We expect reservations to go live (via our RegOnline system) late this fall.
*The "Facilities" page does now list all the hotels we have contracted blocks with already.
The Worldcon 76 Staff have been hard at work this summer, and information and forms for dealers (vendors) and creators is now available via this website.
For a summary of our plans, we recommend you check out our Exhibit Hall overview page. (It's good reading for everybody, in fact!)
Interested in dealing/vending in the Dealers' Room? The rules and a link to the application form are available on the Dealers' Room FAQ!
Want to exhibit/sell your art? Check out the Art Show Rules and Application!
Want to sell your own art/items/services for just part of the convention? Check out the Creators' Alley information!
Today I had the great pleasure of announcing two more Guests of Honor for Worldcon 76 in San Jose.
At the "Future Worldcons" panel today at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki, I revealed that artist John Picacio and musician Frank Hayes have been added to our roster of honored guests. We're excited and thrilled that they will be joining us next August!
The Worldcon 76 team has been out and about this winter, and we're just starting to ramp up our presence! Since January 1, we've had ambassadors at Arisia, Further Confusion, Boskone, Capricon and Gallifrey One, and have at least that many appearances planned in the next couple of months.
Watch for us at a convention near you... or, even better, drop a line to volunteers@worldcon76.org if you'd like to be an ambassador for Worldcon 76 at your local or regional convention!
A quick update on Worldcon 76 as we come to the end of 2016:
If you haven't been watching our Facebook page, you may have missed some recent announcements about registration. We are working on bringing that here to the website as well, but for now here's what you need to know.
Most of our activity on Worldcon 76 is still behind-the-scenes. We've started building up our program, events, and exhibits divisions, and they are diving right into designing our convention; we want to make it as spectacular as we can. While that has been going on, there have been a number of developments on the membership front that you might want to know about: