It's great to have everything under a single roof, but I think the IAGSDC membership has painted itself into a corner with criteria necessitating high registration and room rates in most cities. It's become a vicious cycle: only the relatively wealthy can afford afford to attend a convention so only the relatively wealthy write requirements and vote on bids the rest can't begin to afford.
If my club were bidding again, I'd submit a redux bid using a suburban hotel, dropping the grand march and registration gifts, keep the meals to less than $40/plate for the banquet (usually $60+) and $20 for the brunch (usually $50+) and no refreshments for the delegate meetings (usually $25+), and doing anything else I could to hammer the registration price down to a target of only $150. It wouldn't meet the bid requirements, but I'd like the delegates to voice their rationalization for increasingly expensive events.
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Date: 2011-11-16 09:02 pm (UTC)If my club were bidding again, I'd submit a redux bid using a suburban hotel, dropping the grand march and registration gifts, keep the meals to less than $40/plate for the banquet (usually $60+) and $20 for the brunch (usually $50+) and no refreshments for the delegate meetings (usually $25+), and doing anything else I could to hammer the registration price down to a target of only $150. It wouldn't meet the bid requirements, but I'd like the delegates to voice their rationalization for increasingly expensive events.