TRADE SHOWS By Andrew Asch | Thursday, March 4, 2021 The novelty of doing a live show attracted some first-time exhibitors including Gil Gomez of the Black Circle Agency. After almost a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person trade-show format is coming back to life. Last month, in-person trade shows were produced in Orlando, Fla., and at the Dallas Market Center in Dallas. Over Presidents Day weekend, an in-person trade show took place near the Los Angeles International Airport as COVID-19 cases had dipped in Los Angeles County, an area where numbers of COVID-19 cases had been high for much of the past year.