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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I had sent this privately to Kathryn, but decided to make it public because so many others are responding to the list. Ted [log in to unmask] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:03:34 -0500 (EST) From: Edward Goodman <[log in to unmask]> To: Kathryn Wayne <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Future Conference Sites Hi Chuck- I personnaly love the idea of Vegas!! It would be very interesting from an architecture/planning perspective- "Learning from Las Vegas", etc. I could see some interesting sessions. GLIRT could do something on Liberace and the culture of kitsch! Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Many people have asked me when we might meet in NYC again, and I always reply that with the popularity of NYC as a destination now, it is MUCH more expensive and difficult to meet as a group here. Hotel occupancy rates are 98% filled all year long and it has impacted the convention business adversely because hotels do not have to cut deals to fill the bedrooms. I don't know if we'll ever be able to be in NYC again, although if there was movement from the EB to do it, I would be happy to present it to the chapter and do some preliminary investigative work myself. I was on the ICAM conf. planning comm. in 1996 in charge of local arrangements and we booked the Warwick Hotel at 54th & 6th Ave. and at that time room rates single/double were $140. So, it might be doable depending on what members were willing to pay. Ted