Organization
In the UK and much of the rest of Europe, individual rides and stalls are run by different, independent showmen, who all converge for the duration of the fair and then often go their separate ways to set up at fairs in other towns.
In the United States, regional companies own large numbers of rides and games and book schedules of fairs with multiple units of machinery and staff. They are typically on the road throughout a season that runs from mid-February through December, usually beginning in the southern US and travelling north as summer approaches and then become active again in the south with the arrival of cooler fall weather. The relative costs and profitability of such long-distance operations are largely impacted by fuel prices; when prices are unusually high, smaller operators often resort to spending long stretches in shopping mall parking lots, drumming up what business they can as they accumulate additional funds, or wait for prices to fall.
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