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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: overbooking at Phoenix Hyatt
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Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 14:03:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 17 14:03:10 1987
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Overbooking for conferences is normal for hotels.  The hard part is trying
to estimate the percentage of no-shows.  I know that this is a standard
problem for science-fiction conventions:  they have an unusually low no-show
percentage, and often have to work quite hard to convince hotels of this.
It sounds like Usenix may be a similar case.  If so, the thing to do is to
document the fact convincingly, with specific numbers for specific hotels
at specific Usenix conferences, and then use this as ammunition when making
deals with hotels in future.
-- 
"There is only one spacefaring        Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
nation on Earth today, comrade."   {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry