Re: Meeting Locations

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

--On tirsdag, juli 19, 2005 07:09:16 -0700 Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> 
wrote:

> As noted in the current thread, early site selection permits attendee
> budgeting.  From the IETF side, it permits serious negotiating for site
> terms and operational efficiencies when a previous site is re-used.
> Minneapolis has been a useful demonstration of this latter point, I think.

Since nobody but Foretec has seen the Minneapolis contracts, we have no 
idea whether that's true or not.

I've had it argued at me that a hotel that believes it "owns" the event is 
actually harder to negotiate with than one that believes that there are 
alternatives.

                          Harald

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