Yup yup, I totally hear ya on that.
Vancouver is, in fact, a proposal of mine for a candidate city.
That would be a dream! Sadly, it would exceedingly difficult at best to try and convince exhibitors of that being worthwhile.
I have jokingly suggested this before, as a destination-based show that people can also plan vacations around. Sadly, the local market - which makes up the vast majority of attendees for any given CanJam - isn't nearly large enough to support a show. Not knocking Hawaii of course, just pointing out the obvious I guess.
Japan is already host to several world-class personal audio shows, Fujiya-Avic being the longest running of them. In that case, it wouldn't be a CanJam, we'd just go to Fujiya-Avic. Maybe we can get
@Currawong to play tour guide?