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|> On Behalf Of Mark Prior
|> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:22 AM
|> To: dassa(_at_)dhs(_dot_)org
|> Cc: 'IETF Discussion'
|> Subject: Re: Excellent choice for summer meeting location!
|>
|> Dassa wrote:
|>
|> > |> -What kind of city with a population of 75,000 has hotel
|> > |> accommodations for 2000 people unless it's a tourist Mecca and
|> > |> likely expensive and overbooked?
|> >
|> > A lot of regional centres are geared to large numbers of
tourists/visitors.
|> > As for expensive and overbooked, I find most large cities have prices
|> > two or three times those in regional centres for accommadation and as
|> > any use of a regional centre would be a big bonus to the host city,
|> > there is scope for negotiation and I'm sure additional price cuts.
|>
|> Not many regional cities would have the conference
|> facilities that will cope with an IETF, it's not your normal
|> conference that just needs a single large plenary hall.
This may be the biggest issue. True a lot of regional cities wouldn't have
the facilities. Some do however. It may mean that all the conference rooms
are not at the same location but the distance between them would not be
great. Usually within a 5-10 minute walk. I can think of at least two
regional cities in NSW that could cope fairly easily and I'm sure there
would be more in Australia.
|> I will also note that in 2000 Adelaide, a city of around 1
|> million people, struggled for hotel rooms given that people
|> not associated with the IETF also wanted hotel rooms in the city :)
True, in a regional city, not everyone would be able to stay in the one
place and would be scattered around the city at various hotels, motels and
other accommadation. I know of a few regional cities that can handle the
numbers talked about so far, there are sure to be others. The timing would
have to be right so other major events are not being held at the same time
but that sort of problem exists for capital and major cities also. For
instance Tamworth has a massive influence of people for the Country Music
Festival. It is hard to find acccommadation there unless booked well in
advance. I have a chat to our local Tourism Officer and see just what sort
of figures are available for some of the regional cities with regard to
facilities and how many visitors they get/can handle. It may be
interesting.
Actually I find it hard to understand Adelaide having issues with
accommadation unless there was another major event at the same time. How
does it cope with motor sport events, they used to hold some there didn't
they?
There would certainly be a bit more work in preparing for a meet such as the
IETF and there may be too many issues to consider regional cities but it is
a worthwhile exercise to see just what the disadvantages and advantages may
be.
Darryl (Dassa) Lynch
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