On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
I think it is quite simple: What matters to me is the total costs of
meeting rooms, breakfast, coffee and connectivity, or the stuff
covered by the registration fee. I'm prepared to pay a registration
fee at roughly the current level for those things, plus the costs of
my hotel room and plane ticket.
I'd expect you to be concerned about the total cost of
lodging+registration, rather than just the registration fee treated
in isolation.
According to the slides presented last night, the hotel room cost
subsidizes the other items -- IASA got a commission on the room block
in Dallas and presumably will get one here. And, as Jordi pointed
out, the convention in many regions is for hotels to provide breafast,
which presumably shifts the breakfast cost from the meeting fee into
the hotel room cost. One might imagine that we could even charge more
for hotel rooms and less for registration across the board.
There's some fungibility here, and focusing on just one of the
participants costs (e.g., the registration fee) seems unwise.
-- Sam
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