Who wants a Worldcon? Next year fans will choose the site of the 2020 con, for which New Zealand (Wellington) is currently running unopposed. Beyond that?
The list of bids on the Worldcon.org page is copied here, with a few modifications.
2020 Worldcon Bids
2021 Worldcon Bids
2022 Worldcon Bids
- Chicago in 2022
2023 Worldcon Bids
- France in 2023
- New Orleans in 2023
2024 Worldcon Bids
2025 Worldcon Bids
2032 Worldcon Bids
- Tampere in 2032
ADDITION. In the afterglow of Worldcon 75, bid ribbons for the next Finnish Worldcon began to appear. Tampere in 2032 is not on the Worldcon.org list yet. Is the bid real? Well, the ribbons are.
It begins as a bad joke… Like #Helsinki2017 apparently began #Tampere2032 #wearedoomed #Finnished #Worldcon75 pic.twitter.com/BBq36VPIva
— Mikko Lammi (@MikkoLmmz) August 12, 2017
The chair of #tampere2032 accepts money for the bid. #Worldcon75 @prkaye @OutiSippoPurma pic.twitter.com/gK1HfbWwvp
— Jan Lindgren (he/him) (@janlindgren) August 13, 2017
SUBTRACTION. For a couple of years Worldcon.org has been listing a Doha, Qatar in 2022 bid. Superversive SF contributor “Ray Blank” (pen name of Eric Priezkalns), posited the bid in June 2015 while taunting fans about diversity in articles like “On Worldcons and World Cups” (Superversive SF, June 13, 2015):
Qatar is scheduled to host the 2022 World Cup, and they are nearing completion of one of the largest convention centres in the world, with a view to becoming a hub for global and regional events. But if Worldcon went to Qatar, its members would have to engage with a society where homosexuality is against the law, many women choose to cover their faces, and expatriate workers have inadequate legal protection, leading to their mistreatment.
If you have strongly-held progressive beliefs, you should want to go to places like South Africa, Malaysia and Qatar; nobody changes opinions by avoiding those who disagree with them. And dealing with weighty real-world issues might discourage some of the sound and fury that taints arguments about how to vote for a book award.
He also engaged fans here at File 770, writing a dozen comments, all on June 15 and 16, 2015. He said about Qatar:
From scratch, I’m going to work on a new bid for Worldcon to be hosted in a country that would be radically different to any previous host. My first thought is to see if it will be possible to build grass roots support for Doha, Qatar, to host the 2022 Worldcon. Failing that, I will explore the possibility of a bid for Bangalore, India.
There has been no sign of any traditional bid activity – parties, ads, etc. Ray Blank has time to do something about that if he wants, but right now there’s nothing to justify keeping Qatar on the list.