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ITA-AITES should seriously consider rescheduling World Tunnel Congress Kuala Lumpur to 2021
You know WTC2020 has been rescheduled to Sept 11-17. Do you think that it should be rescheduled to 2021 instead? I mean WTC2021 in Kuala Lumpur and WTC2022 in Copenhagen and WTC2023 in Cancun?
Today is June 9th. We have 3 more months to go. There is no way things will get back to normal in these 3 months. Even if you assume that all travel restrictions are lifted, people will be extremely reluctant to travel.
I am afraid, if ITA insists on September dates for WTC Kuala Lumpur, the event will only attract people who are already in Malaysia and, if lucky, also from a few nearby countries.
This is so unfair to Malaysian organizers. No doubt they had been working hard to organize this great event and ending up with a handful of attendees will be so unfair.
International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association can easily solve this problem by shifting the WTC dates by one year. As I said earlier, WTC Kuala Lumpur in 2021, WTC Copenhagen in 2022, WTC Cancun in 2023. At WTC Kuala Lumpur in 2021, any candidates for 2024 is voted for.
I don't know, I do not see any other way. What do you think?
Fair or not for the organizers?
To be honest I do not care. Fairness is not the one that makes the world go round. I believe the main concern should be, whether holding the event in September 2020 will serve the purpose for the tunneling community or not. It is beyond certain that most people will pass over this event. Will it serve the purpose or will ITA-AITES still hold it just for the purposes of holding it?
Answer to whether the World Tunnel Congress years should be shifted lies in the answer to this question.
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I'd say tough luck for the Malaysians. Shifting will mess up a lot of things.