Re: [Mtgvenue] Comments on draft-baker-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process-02

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 2, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Dave Crocker <[e-mail]> wrote:
>     If an area has many, smaller hotels nearby, is the convenience of getting together hurt significantly?  Why or why not?

This might be perfectly fine in the sense that it would not privilege the people who were fast enough to get reservations at the conference hotel.   But it requires a place at the venue where these meetings can happen, and sufficient hangout space at the venue that people are not retreating to their hotel rooms because there is no comfortable place to sit.   I’ve never seen a venue that had sufficient comfy seating to make this work, unfortunately.   I guess some of the auditoriums at some of the venues we’ve been to had comfy enough seating, but there’d have to be one that was extra and could be devoted to people just hanging out.

So the bottom line is that I think in practice the large central hotel is the easiest way to address this need, even though there are definitely other ways to address it.