Re: COMMON - new "non-conference hotel registration rate"]

Ron,

Well, last I checked, SHARE's not having this problem with the room tax
that COMMON is...

Frankly attendance is down at ALL OS/400 based events, local and national.

I think it kinda follows the OS/400 jobs-wanted index...:)




On Wed, 21 May 2003, Ron Harvey wrote:

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> the thing I STILL can not understand. Why hasn't COMMON Management been able 
> to find attractive yet more cost effective venu's than those which they 
> mandate expensive housing venus at? How many times has this come up at MOM 
> and why does it still fall on deaf ears?
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> One of the issues I see here is the attendence is way down at the venus with 
> cheap housing (Indianapolis, Cincinatti, Baltimore, etc). When asked where to 
> have conferences the replies are: San Antonio, New Orleans, San Francisco, 
> Orlando, Las Vegas etc.
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> >From the attendence figures it seems like folks would rather pay higher 
> >rates and go to great places. So what's a conference to do?
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