[12956] in APO-L
Re: SUMMER CONFERENCES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (EDK@LASPAU.MHS.HARVARD.EDU)
Fri Oct 13 16:31:57 1995
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 16:29:28 -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>
>I think what really needs to bew done is provide cost figures for hotels
and
>airfare for each season. Also assume that if 85%-90% are from out of
region,
>and 65% of them fly at least, assume 60% or 1200 out of 2000 will fly
and
>hence weigh airfares.
I'd question both of your assumptions. When the percentage from "in
region" & "out of region" is going to depend to some extent on which
regions your talking about -- more than 15% of the attendees will
probably be from the host region.
For most conventions, more people seem to drive than fly. (Boston was
something of an aberation since it's in a corner of the country (all the
chapters except 5 are west & south of the city) and thus in a 20 hr
driving range of a smaller percentage of the country than most sites (20
hr driving time seems to be about the point where things flip from "more
people drive than fly" to "more people fly than drive". Me I'm silly, I
flew to from Baltimore to Boston to drive to the Denver convention -- I
also drove to Kansas City (with 14 other brothers from the east coast) &
St. Louis (with 2 other brothers).
>Now you're talking about a maximum of $100 difference between the two.
But you're not, you're talking about a $30 difference for people who
can/are willing to sleep 6 to a room and a $200ish difference for people
who are 1 or 2 to a room.
Y.I.S.
Ellen
