Post #641964 by TikiHardBop on Wed, Jun 27, 2012 1:07 PM

Just have to throw my $.02 in here, and I hate to be all negative and realistic, but as cool as this event looked, it has to be followed up in order to have any kind of lasting impact. In the land of Jimmy Buffet and the home of Gasparilla, I bet most of what they did right just flew right by most of the attendees.

Not to be critical, though. I'm struggling with this issue over here on the Space Coast. We just hosted a very successful tiki night at a local restaurant and we are wrestling with how to leverage this success into something a little more permanent. Especially since most of the attendees at our event are already "tiki" and we only saw a handful of "civilians".

So really the question I would like to see people discuss is how to use a single, highly-successful event, like this one to build a permanent "tiki" scene in an area? I'm sure every person outside of highly urban area east of California probably asks themselves this question as every weekend rolls around and there is nowhere cool to go and have a decent tiki drink (outside of making your own).