IMEX America · Mandalay Bay · Las Vegas · October

IMEX America Trade Show Booth Rentals

The buyers arrive with your appointment already booked. The booth is where the deal happens.

Fixed-price IMEX America exhibits — design, fabrication, graphics, freight, installation and dismantle in one number that doesn’t move. Pre-built, lit and photo-approved before it ships, so the booth your hosted buyers walk into has already stood up once.

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October 13-15, 2026Show dates · auto-updated
Mandalay BayVenue
Las VegasCity
Advance orders close ~Aug 18, 2026
6,100+Buyers on the floor
3,700+Exhibitors competing
24 hrConcepts and a fixed quote back
1Project manager, end to end
Know the floor before you plan the booth

IMEX isn’t a browsing show. It’s a diary.

The largest trade show for the global meetings, events and incentive travel industry runs on a hosted-buyer programme — thousands of qualified planners arrive with appointment schedules already built, and those appointments happen at your booth. A booth that’s only a backdrop wastes the most expensive audience you’ll see all year. It has to work as a meeting space from the first slot of Smart Monday’s follow-through to the last handshake on day three.

Mandalay Bay — one roof

Convention Center · resort campus

The whole show lives in Mandalay Bay’s convention halls, with the hotel towers and restaurants attached — your buyers never leave the property. That compresses everything: freight moves through the venue’s docks on tight target times, and move-in slots are unforgiving. We plan the build to the venue’s schedule, not the show’s mailing address, and our crew has stood booths in these halls for years.

The booth is the meeting room

Hosted-buyer appointments · at your stand

Buyers move stand to stand on back-to-back scheduled appointments. So the design brief is different from any other show: sightlines that welcome, seating that lets people talk without shouting, semi-private corners for the deals that need them, and storage for hospitality service. For destinations and CVBs there’s a second layer — the booth itself is the product demo, a first taste of what hosting with you feels like.

The October calendar

Advance windows close in late summer

An October show means the advance-order window for electrical, rigging and material handling closes in late summer — while half the industry is on vacation. The exact deadline for the current edition is in the facts strip at the top of this page, and it updates automatically. Miss it and every service on your order form jumps to floor rates.

What we handle at IMEX America
  • Appointment-led design — seating, semi-private meeting zones and hospitality storage planned in from the first sketch
  • Layout submission and show approval, filed early
  • Electrical, rigging and material handling orders filed at advance rates
  • Union labour coordination and on-site supervision
  • COI, EAC and exhibitor-manual deadlines mapped to our calendar
  • Dock target times, dismantle, pack and outbound freight
Billed by the show, not by us

Booth space, electrical, drayage, rigging and cleaning are billed to every exhibitor directly by the show and venue — no exhibit house can absorb them and none should claim to. What we do is calculate them for your exact booth before you commit, and file every order at advance rather than floor rates.

  • Booth space
  • Electrical drops and floor distribution
  • Material handling (drayage)
  • Rigging, if you’re hanging a sign
  • Daily cleaning · internet
Why a fixed price matters most here

The budget you present in spring should survive October

Nobody on the show floor knows what things should cost better than an audience of professional event planners — and nothing reads worse to them than an exhibitor blindsided by their own invoice. Labour hours over estimate, revisions rebilled as change orders, graphics reprints, supervision time nobody flagged. Our model is the opposite — the number you approve is the number you pay, contractually. Design revisions are unlimited until you approve. The quote and the final invoice are the same document.

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One number, and it holds

Design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, lighting, freight, installation, dismantle and project management in a single fixed price.

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Proven before it ships

Your booth stands fully assembled and lit at our 65,000 sq ft facility, and you approve photographs of the actual build — not a render.

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Show costs, known up front

Space, electrical, drayage and rigging calculated for your exact booth before you commit — so the total is a number, not a range.

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The paperwork is ours

COI, EAC, electrical, rigging, freight windows — filed at advance rates, mapped to every exhibitor-manual deadline. Nothing lands on your desk three days before it’s due.

We quote higher and cost less. That’s the whole argument, and it’s why every booth below is published with its price rather than hidden behind a “request a quote” form.

Available for IMEX America

IMEX-ready booths, with real prices

Every booth below is priced for Las Vegas and available as a custom build for your brand — rented, not bought. Use the finder at the top of the page to narrow by size and budget.

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One click — the catalog opens already filtered to your size and Las Vegas pricing.

Working backwards from October

Your real deadline is in August

The advance-order cutoff lands roughly eight weeks before the show — the exact date is in the facts strip at the top of this page, and it updates automatically each edition. For an October show that puts the binding constraint in mid-August: the weeks when advance electrical, rigging and material-handling rates are still available are the same weeks half the industry is out of office.

APR–JUNBrief, concepts and the fixed price locked. Full design freedom.
JULYLayout submitted for show approval — placement confirmed.
EARLY AUGGraphics finalised and sent to production.
MID-AUGDesign locked. Advance electrical and rigging filed. This window is open now — check the facts strip for the exact cutoff.
SEPTEMBERFreight window and dock target time booked at Mandalay Bay.
LATE SEPTBooth built, lit and photographed for your approval before it ships.
SHOW WEEKCrew installs in your move-in slot. You walk in at handover.
Take this to every vendor

Five questions to ask anyone quoting your IMEX booth

Put these to every exhibit house you’re comparing — including us. They separate the vendors that stand behind a number from the ones whose estimate is an opening position. Our answers are printed here so you can hold us to them.

1 Will you put the total price in writing before I sign — and hold it? Ours: yes. Every booth on this page is published with its price. The quote and the final invoice are the same number, contractually. Printed above · hold us to it
2 Do design revisions become change orders? Ours: never. Revisions are unlimited until you approve, and the price is locked before design starts — a better idea in September costs nothing.
3 Will I see my actual booth before it ships — or a render? Ours: the actual booth, fully assembled and lit at our facility, photographed for your sign-off before it ships. Renders are promises; photographs are evidence.
4 Who files my advance show orders, and at which rate? Ours: we do, at advance rates, mapped to every exhibitor-manual deadline. For an October show those windows close in late summer — if a vendor can’t answer this immediately, that’s your answer.
5 Has the booth been designed to host appointments, or just to look good in a render? Ours: hosting is the brief. Seating counts, conversation zones, semi-private corners and hospitality storage are planned before the visuals — because at IMEX the booth that wins isn’t the loudest, it’s the one a buyer is glad to sit down in for the fourth meeting of their day.
In their words

What event managers say after the show

★★★★★
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call and ready to jump in when the unexpected inevitably happens. That level of responsiveness makes a huge difference in high-pressure event environments.”
Amanda Horner · Three years of booth programmes · Google Review
★★★★★
“I’ve worked with Pure Exhibits for almost a year now, and have had such a great experience! They are our go-to for trade shows, and create memorable booths that represent our brand well. The team is incredibly responsive and reliable.”
Lexi von Schottenstein · Google Review
★★★★★
“It’s always a pleasure to work with Utsav. The process is simple, straightforward, and high quality. I have worked with them for 3 years now and will continue!”
Carlos Bautista · Three-year client · Google Review
★★★★★
“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
Amanda Horner · Google Review
Questions IMEX exhibitors actually ask

IMEX America booth rental FAQs

How much does an IMEX America booth rental cost?
Every booth on this page is published with its Las Vegas price — fixed and covering design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, freight, labour coordination, installation, dismantle and project management. Separately, the show and venue bill every exhibitor directly for booth space, electrical, drayage, rigging and cleaning; we calculate those for your exact booth before you commit, so the total is known before you sign anything.
When should I book a booth for IMEX America?
Work backwards from October: advance-order windows for electrical, rigging and material handling close roughly eight weeks out, in late summer — the exact deadline for the current edition is in the facts strip at the top of this page and updates automatically. Start the conversation in spring for full design freedom; by mid-August you want the design locked and the advance orders filed.
We’re a destination — our booth basically is our product. How do you design for that?
That’s exactly how we brief it. A planner deciding where to send an incentive programme is sampling your hospitality in the thirty minutes they spend at your stand — so the booth has to feel like the destination: materials, lighting, imagery, and a hosting experience that runs smoothly. We design the space around the visit you want them to remember, then engineer it to rebuild identically show after show.
Our appointment diary is full from open to close. Can the booth work as a meeting space?
It has to — at IMEX, hosted-buyer appointments happen at the booth, and a stand that can’t seat a conversation is a wasted diary. We plan for it structurally: enough seating for overlapping appointments, semi-private zones for sensitive conversations, acoustic separation where the layout allows, storage for hospitality service, and a front edge that stays welcoming to walk-ups while meetings run behind it.
Will a rental look custom, or will it look reused?
Every booth is fabricated for your brand — custom graphics, layout, lighting and finishes on a modular structure underneath. The builds shown above are rentals. Before yours ships, it stands fully assembled and lit at our facility and you approve photographs of the actual booth, not a render.
Can I install the booth myself to save on labour?
Las Vegas show floors run on contracted union labour, and show rules govern who may build what. Either way it isn’t your problem to arrange: labour coordination and on-site supervision are inside our fixed price, with orders filed at advance rather than floor rates.
What happens if something goes wrong during move-in at Mandalay Bay?
Your project manager and our install supervisor are on site through move-in and reachable across show days. Because everything was assembled and checked before shipping, the problems that usually surface at this stage — missing hardware, graphics that don’t fit, panels that won’t seat — have already been found and fixed on our floor, weeks earlier.
A vendor just fell through. How fast can you deliver an IMEX booth?
Four to six weeks from approval to show floor for complete pre-built, photo-verified booths from 10×10 through 20×40 — at the same fixed price as a six-month lead time, with no rush surcharge. The sooner you call, the more of that window sits ahead of the advance-order deadlines in the facts strip.
Do you handle events off the show floor — client dinners, receptions, hospitality suites around IMEX?
Yes — hotel suites, meeting spaces, receptions and satellite activations around the show run under the same fixed-price model, coordinated by the same project manager as your booth. At a show where the evenings matter almost as much as the floor, that’s often where the programme is won.
Fixed pricing · Pre-built & photo-approved · Full-service support

Exhibit at IMEX America with zero surprises.

Tell us your footprint, how many appointments the booth needs to host, and what the space has to say about your destination or brand. You’ll have design concepts and one fixed price back within 24 hours — including what the show will bill you directly.

Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451