SXSW 2022 Canceled Due to Coronavirus

Later on holding out for quite a while, South past Southwest (or SXSW 2020) has finally been canceled due to the speedily spreading Coronavirus in the Us. The decision was taken by the City of Austin, with the Mayor, Steve Adler saying "I've issued an order that effectively cancels South by Southwest."

The annual event focuses on tech, music, and moving picture and was going to play host to big industry names including Netflix, Apple, Facebook, TikTok, and more earlier all of these companies pulled out from attending the effect citing the COVID-19 breakout.

Upward until Wednesday, city officials were quoted every bit saying that the event will go on considering "there's no show that endmost SXSW or whatsoever other gatherings volition make the customs safer."However, that changed last night when the city finally decided that the March dates for the result should exist canceled.

The organisers are now looking at possible alternatives including rescheduling the effect. Meanwhile, they have also appear that they are working to provide a virtual experience for 2020 participants as soon as possible.

Notably, the organisers have not even so appear whether or not tickets volition be refunded, with the SXSW website simply saying "For our registrants, clients, and participants nosotros volition be in touch as soon as possible and volition publish an FAQ."Equally far equally nosotros tin tell every bit of this writing, the FAQ in question hasn't been published on the website. We've reached out to the event organisers for clarification on whether or not tickets will be refunded, and we'll update this mail if and when they reply.