convention sites (campuses)

[Susan Kline]

Wim, I haven't crunched any real numbers, but your figuring below seems to 
be leaving out a lot.  You seem to be assuming that the space used and 
sleeping accommodations will be the same cost per room as a hotel charges. 
I doubt that a college will charge the same fee per night for a dorm room 
as a hotel charges. We'd need some real numbers to see how it would all add 
up. My bet is that the universities will be trying hard to make their 
packages attractive, since if their space isn't used in times when school 
isn't in session, they get nothing for it.

Susan

At 09:10 AM 7/5/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>2000 members paying $200 a piece for registration equals $400,000. The 
>reason 200 members have to pay $200, is to pay for all the space the 
>convention uses. As I mentioned before, a hotel gives us this space in 
>exchange for the rooms we rent and the food we eat. A university doesn't 
>do that. They want to get paid for the space we use. The dorms are a 
>separate account, and so is the food at the cafeteria.
>
>So if a seminar that uses lots of space costs 2000 attendees $200 a piece, 
>that is presumably to pay for the space used. We need as much space, (if 
>not more). That will cost us $400,000. But we have only 600 paid 
>attendees. $400,000 divided by 600 equals $650.
>
>Wim