a crowd of my friends and myself usually attend the Spring and Autumn fairs at the NEC we all have noticed how the stall holders are slimming away, each year for the last 7 years it's shrinking beyond belief, so much so i'm not sure we will be going to the next one, maybe one or two of us instead of the 6/7
I think retail is the problem, shops are closing down and not looking like it will recover quickly.
Close the annual show making it a three year one, then place central in the country maybe the NEC but I know that's expensive, if you concentrated on the one evry 3 it would be bigger and better attended imo