INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The media, culture, and tech showcase SXSW 2020 has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns, making it the latest major event this year to
evidence that closing SXSW or any other gatherings will make the community safer.' However, this situation evolved rapidly, and we honor and
contingent is another story
Worse will be the effect on Austin itself.While every host city is surely feeling the lost income from hosting such international draws,
canceled, the lost revenue for all the shows shut down over coronavirus concerns just topped $1 billion, per Vox, a number that encompasses
local, travel, and hospitality exchanges
MWC 2020 was the first to get shuttered back in February after several big exhibitors pulled out, a pattern repeated for GTC 2020, GDC 2020,
