Hotel Rooms Filling Fast for the SCI Annual Hunters’ Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada
Safari Club International 11.13.13
You do not want to miss the Safari Club International Convention this year. Now is the time to book a hotel room for the Annual Hunters’ Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Blocks of hotel rooms reserved for the SCI are beginning to fill up and limited time is available for booking.
The 2014 SCI Annual Hunters’ Convention will be held February 5-8, 2014 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Attendees of the SCI Convention have a wide range of hotel options with blocks of rooms reserved with special pricing.
Eight hotels offer special SCI pricing including the Mandalay Bay, Excaliber Hotel, Four Seasons Hotel, Luxor Hotel, MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, New York New York, THEhotel (part of the Mandalay Bay Hotel), and the Tropicana Hotel.
Click here for a complete list of hotel rates or go to www.showsci.org and click on the blue “Hotels” button on the right.
For more information, to join or register, visit www.showsci.org or call 1-888-746-9724.
Protecting hunters’ rights and promoting wildlife conservation, SCI’s two areas of focus, historically has been the interest of hundreds of individuals long before SCI was established. But how did SCI as an organization begin?
Forty years ago, there were many safari clubs across the country made up of local, unaffiliated groups of hunters. One such was Safari Club of Los Angeles, which was formed in April 1971 by forty-seven individuals. In early 1972, an out-of-towner from a similar club in Chicago attended one of the monthly Wednesday night meetings, and it was decided that the L.A. club should attempt to combine with the one in Chicago to make it an affiliated chapter. The founder of Safari Club of Los Angeles, C.J. McElroy, went to the Windy City and instituted the new chapter.
Eleven months after the formation of Safari Club of Los Angeles, on March 9, 1972, the name was changed officially to Safari Club International. SCI continued to reach out to other independent safari clubs throughout the United States in an effort to combine them into a single overall organization.
Today, interest in SCI’s two primary missions has grown a worldwide network. Subsequent involvement and promotion of these missions is rooted in each of our 55,000 members, supported through each of our 190 membership chapters found across the globe, and put into action by government representatives and personnel both nationally and internationally.
In this way, we can encourage an appreciation for nature and wildlife so that conservation efforts remain strong, while also fighting to protect our rich hunting heritage. Big changes can be achieved through the endeavors of many who are united in a mission – the mission of Safari Club International.
