CES Attendees Should Book Hotels Now for 'Best Rates,' Says CTA

About a week before the July 28 one-year anniversary of canceling the in-person CES 2021 due to COVID-19 (see 2007280034), CTA says it’s committed to returning CES 2022 as a physical show to the Las Vegas Convention Center in early January, but is releasing few details about pre-show preparations. CTA will launch CES 2022 registration in September “as in years past,” said a spokesperson. Las Vegas hotel reservations and rates “will be available in the late summer for individual and small group bookings,” she said. CTA encourages show attendees to “book directly” now with the hotels of their choice “to secure the best rates,” she said, without explanation. That’s a policy reversal from past years when CTA trumpeted its official hotel blocks with guarantees of the best CES rates. CTA remains vague about the COVID-19 health and safety protocols that will be in place. It promised in a May exhibitor infographic that more specifics would come as “the situation will continue to evolve over the coming months.” It said CES 2022 visitors “should expect some type of health screening, such as temperature checks or proof of vaccination, COVID-19 antibodies or negative COVID-19 test,” and it expects “to announce additional guidance in September and again in December.”