Cabana Show to Relocate to Miami Beach Convention Center

The Cabana Show is making a move. The swimwear and resort event, scheduled for July 13 to 15, is relocating to the Miami Beach Convention Center, which just completed a multimillion-dollar renovation. At the same time, the show is focusing in on sustainability by eliminating single-use plastics during the event. Since its founding in 2013, Cabana has been held in white tents in Collins Park, across from the W South Beach hotel. But as the show has grown, so have the number of tents, according to Janet Wong, who founded Cabana with Sam Ben-Avraham. “We were up to four tents and 20 rooms in the hotel,” she said. “Logistically, it didn’t make sense — it’s hard when everyone is separated. Now, we’re getting everybody under one roof.” She said the move to the Convention Center, which just got a $620 million revamp, also allows the show to be around 25 percent larger than its last edition. It will house around 350 swim, resort and accessories brands. Wong said there is a misconception that Cabana is only women’s swimwear, but it also carries men’s wear and is around 40 percent swim, 40 percent resort and 20 percent accessories such as sunglasses, hats, bags, jewelry and

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