H.P. Market Authority forms Hotel Task Force
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, August 27, 2006
High Point — High Point's Market Authority has formed a Hotel Task Force to provide advice and recommendations from the hospitality industry to the authority's staff, executive committee and board.
It will not, however, specifically talk about the rates charged by the hotels during markets — one of the top complaints of marketgoers.
"This is not intended to be a discussion about costs and rates; we can't legally sit in a room and talk about those factors," said Brian Casey, president of the Market Authority, which manages the home furnishings markets here.
"Rather, the whole premise behind this is to set that aside and focus the discussion on what we can be doing as a community to make the overall market experience for our attendees as positive as possible," he said. "Nonetheless, we hope to take away some ideas that we can use to formulate strategies to more effectively deal with the rate issue as we move forward."
Initial topics of discussion included the sharing of information between the Market Authority and the hoteliers and plans for the Authority to secure blocks of rooms that would be available to marketgoers.
Hotel Task Force members include Pamela Vargas, Marriott Downtown Greensboro, who was named chairperson; Chris Adams, Ashford Suites; Mo Milani, Sheraton Hotel; Joe Varipapa, Comfort Suites Airport; John Rothkopf, Airport Marriott; Tim Peters, Embassy Suites; Joe Tarasaria, Holiday Inn Express; Paulette Seaton, Hilton Garden Inn; Ron Stephens, Twin City Quarter; Henri Fourrier, Greensboro Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Charlotte Young, High Point CVB.
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