[12941] in APO-L
Re: SUMMER CONFERENCES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (EDK@LASPAU.MHS.HARVARD.EDU)
Fri Oct 13 11:15:04 1995
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:02:03 -0500
Reply-To: EDK@LASPAU.MHS.HARVARD.EDU
From: EDK@LASPAU.MHS.HARVARD.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
>First of all, not all hotels have cheaper rates during Christmas week.
>On e of the obstacles to Las Vegas bid was that people claimed that it
was
>cheaper in the summer.
Las Vegas may be an exception in the sense that it doesn't really have a
'season' the way most destinations around the country do. However, the
biggest obstacle to the Las Vegas bid was the lack of any local chapter
support. Even Florida is cheaper in winter than summer.
>Second, can someone give numbers to me to back up your point.
>Third, hotel rooms are generally split four plus ways among the room
>inhabitants
The average number of people in a room is somewhere in the neighborhood
of 3 not 4+.
We have been getting a $40 a night hotel rate for over 14 yrs now while
in general the rates at convention hotels have doubled. Certainly in
Boston the convention rate for any other week of the year would have been
$80 or more. A convention that filled the Park Plaza Hotel two weeks
after we were there was paying $83 for a single, more for more people.
In addition to deep discounts on room-nights, we also get function space
discounts/reductions/even free that would cost bucks at other times of
year even with the number of people we bring it so in addition to the
increase in hotel costs, you'd have higher registration costs.
>and are not the weightiest component of total conference cost- airfare
is.
>You can't split airfare. However, quite often there are fare wars during
the
>summer months.
Generally true, but it depends on what the end points are -- for example
Boston<->Florida tends to be cheaper in winter. However, there is one
thing that definitely makes air travel easier in the summer -- More
flights available at the cheap fares since you won't be in a 'holiday
blackout' period.
>I've seen conventions of various types anywhere and everywhere at
anytime
>and everytime. Regardless of any price, APO has always had the best
rates of
>any other convention I have ever seen. So I wouldn't worry about one
buck
>here or there. We're getting off easy.
Yes, but we're getting those rates because of the time of year we're
having the conference.
>Summer travel is much safer.
True.
Y.I.S.
Ellen Kranzer
Boston in '92 Convention Committee
ekranzer@Harvard.edu or ccrazy@world.std.com
