Yes, but not only that, PTG is paying for the convention instruction rooms - daily rental, with water, whatever, etc. There is a lot more to it!! Terry Farrell On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Israel Stein wrote: > > >On Mar 03/23/10 1:32 PM Jim Moy wrote: > > >It didn't even occur to me it might impact PTG costs. Maybe the > >assumption was the $109/night was going to be the "best" deal, so of > >course people would say "PTG convention rate, please," right? (Which > >brings up another question -- why *isn't* the PTG getting the best > >rate possible for its members?) > > One word, Jim "volume". > > The PTG can give the hotel an estimate of, say, 400 rooms booked for > 5 nights and perhaps 200 more for seven nights (oversimplification > - it's more complicated than that, but you get the idea). Total - > 3400 room-nights. The hotel is willing to give X% discount off its > full rate for this sort of volume. > > Compare that to the tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of room- > nights that Travelocity will book over the span of a year, and you > see why they can get (and offer to those who book over their > website) a larger discount than the PTG - and still make a profit... > > Then again, the PTG is dealing with one hotel site, Travelocity is > booking in every hotel in the chain... No way we could get the same > discount that such volume booking can command... > > Israel Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100323/b06ff2c1/attachment-0001.htm>
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