2) On long term contracts, you can get some saving, but you have to be careful. I have some experience with holding a convention in the same city every year for decades. If you stick with the same facility year after year, you go through a series of phases. The first year things can be a little rough because they don't know your group. The second year they have learned and for the next 2, 3, maybe 4+ years, things usually go very smoothly and you get good rates and service (barring a change in facility ownership/management). But, sooner or later, perhaps around 5+ years, the facility starts to take you for granted, there is turn-over in the facility personnel, whatever concessions they were giving you that were saving you money disappear, the quality of service you get starts going down, and you have to move to re-gain any advantage.
Thanks,
Donald
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Spencer Dawkins <spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My understanding is that Minneapolis kind of fell off the truck due to problems with IETF attendees getting US visas, and not because of other considerations. We've met there a lot in the past 10 or so years. People complained, but not in ways that prevented us from meeting there repeatedly.I know you meant it in jest, but to be clear to everyone else, qualifying a new venue is a lot of work.
One point raised during the plenary is that we might be able to save
money if we regularly return to a given venue. Is it possible to
quantify those savings based on experience in, say, Minneapolis?
So if we were going to quantify savings based on return visits, could I suggest that we pick another place to quantify (perhaps "Vancouver" - we've been there a couple of times lately, and I happen to be sitting in a hotel right now - but anyplace outside the US would work for the concern I was raising).
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