Paul Woodward, a former MD of UFI and advisor to organisers and venues around the world, assesses the industry’s staying power. Many years and several career transitions ago, I stood in New York in front of the intimidating board of directors of a very well known publisher. Magazines at that time were still great and profitable gushers of cash. My job; to persuade the men (and they were indeed all men) in grey suits that exhibitions was a busi...