Rob & Helen Goodale wrote: > Huh? You've lost me. Unless everyone stays at the same hotel it will > be the end of conventions? > A significant number of attendees have been staying at other > surrounding hotels as long as I can remember including myself. Please > explain. OK, Rob, here's how it works. The convention hotel WILL make their intended profit on the convention, one way or another. Their standard contract will have a schedule of rates for the meeting rooms and exhibit hall. We pay the lowest rate when the largest number of sleeping room nights are booked, and we pay the highest rate when fewer sleeping rooms are booked. If more and more attendees sleep elsewhere, then the cost of conventions will rise. If the same bargain-hunters who sleep off-site begin to complain about the higher convention fees, or stop attending, then we will no longer be able to have conventions. Even though I am not involved in putting on the convention, I am using the pronoun WE here, because, like it or not, we're all in this (PTG) together, and our individual actions do affect the rest of the organization. Clear enough? Mike
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