...which is why we've been meeting several times at a cetain Hilton in the state of Minnesota. I am sure the professional meeting planners who have been doing this job for many, many years, are more than capable of negotiating discounts with major hotel chains all over the world. There are still cities in the world, for example Kuala Lumpur, that are relatively "easy" to get to and offer very good value for money in terms of hotel prices, food and so on. Additionally, some of us have experiences running Internet conferences in these places. But Foretec is more than capable of finding such locations, that's why we hired them :-) Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@cisco.com URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Michael Speer wrote: > Tim, > > Ah, I think you missed my point about this. If you can gaurantee a > hotel or a set of hotels in a given location somekind of volume the > pricing for the event goes down. It allows for pricing based on average > attendance of all three meetings. > > Michael > > >