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\"\"<\/a>Ever been turned down by a hotel because of \u201ccompression\u201d and just nodded and moved on without stopping to consider you might not know what that is?\u00a0 Are the city walls closing in on the hotels?\u00a0 What is this phenomenon that is preventing you from finding the requisite availability when you need it?<\/p>\n

Compression occurs when an event on one side of the city causes hotels on the other side of the city to sell at a higher occupancy because the hotels near the event are sold out.\u00a0 Hotels miles and miles away from a convention center might experience said compression during large conventions.\u00a0 It\u2019s a wonderful benefit in city\u2019s who lack a primary convention center hotel.<\/p>\n

City\u2019s like Atlanta, New Orleans, Orlando, and Las Vegas have an abundance of convention scale hotels \u2013 each with thousands of guest rooms and near to the convention center.\u00a0 In Las Vegas, just about every hotel is a convention center unto itself.\u00a0 And so a convention that draws 5,000 people might hide nicely in just a couple of the hotels in any of those cities.\u00a0 It might take 10,000 rooms ore more before there is serious compression there.<\/p>\n

But take a city like Washington, DC.\u00a0 There are only a small handful of hotels in the city proper which break the 1,000 room mark.\u00a0 And none are within close walking distance of the convention center.\u00a0 There are a couple of hotels which approach 1,000 rooms within site of the center, but after that, the dropoff is significant.\u00a0 What it means is that a convention in this city would even stand to affect medium sized hotels and boutique hotels, where in another city, those hotels might not be affected at all.\u00a0 What it means is that every room within a five to ten block radius of the convention center is going to sell out because of the convention.\u00a0 And thereby causing \u201ccompression\u201d into areas like Arlington, Alexandria, and Bethesda.\u00a0 Though the convention isn\u2019t anywhere near those locations, travelers coming to the area who might otherwise stay nearer to the convention center, are looking elsewhere for affordable rooms or availability.<\/p>\n

In 2013 (or is it 2014), a brand new convention center hotel will open in the shadows of the DC convention center.\u00a0 For the city, this is a marvelous addition as it will immediately open the city up for larger conventions.\u00a0 For some of the outlying areas, however, the opening of another large hotel right by the center is going to mitigate the benefit of compression that these hotels have long relied on.\u00a0 In the end though, the traveler to DC is going to get relief and make the area noticeably easier to book.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever been turned down by a hotel because of \u201ccompression\u201d and just nodded and moved on without stopping to consider you might not know what that is?\u00a0 Are the city walls closing in on the hotels?\u00a0 What is this phenomenon that is preventing you from finding the requisite availability when you need it? 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