Re: primary Paris hotel booking

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On 2012-01-04 10:03, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> --On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 15:54 -0500 Eric Burger
> <eburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Actually (shhhh), the IETF *does* get credit for rooms sold.
>> We reconcile the attendee list with hotel guests. Go for it.
> 
> In a way, that is really too bad.  If people find the
> cancellation or other) policies problematic enough to actually
> change their behavior (as distinct from whining), it would be
> good for the IAOC to get that message in a way that was clear
> and couldn't be avoided.  If you don't incur a penalty for
> failure to fill a block and/or can't really tell "paid a higher
> rate to get a better policy" from "reserved after the block was
> full or past the deadline", then there are few, if any,
> incentives for telling a hotel that these sort of policies won't
> do.

There's a third case, "paid a lower rate than the conference rate"
(usually due to a smart corporate travel agent). I've never
understood why conferences don't get a corporate-equivalent rate.

   Brian
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