{"id":1542,"date":"2011-04-11T19:28:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2011-04-11T19:28:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:28:38","slug":"government-shut-up-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/11\/government-shut-up-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Shut (Up) Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/government_icon_-_symbo_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-280\" title=\"government_icon_-_symbo_01\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/government_icon_-_symbo_01-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a>Just when you thought the most loyal, recession proof, consistent, reliable market segment would never fail you, lawmakers on Capitol Hill rally to prove this theorem wrong.\u00a0 In what was one of the more embarrassing and disappointing weeks in public policy, Congress\u2019 ongoing struggle to ratify last year\u2019s budget has had rather abysmal affects on the hospitality market, especially for those hotels that have come to rely on government business.<\/p>\n<p>No, the government never did shutdown.\u00a0 But for more than a month leading up to it, the looming threat of a shutdown had severely hampered government planner\u2019s ability to sign contracts for the immediate future. And even for those contracts well off into the foreseeable future, planners were restricted from moving forward without appropriated funds.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At a minimum, the immediate effect on hotels was a very noticeable drop off in demand.\u00a0 However this drop off will more than likely be countered by a very serious increase in demand once budgets pass.\u00a0 Business has not stopped, it has simply been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>The more ominous affects were for those meetings which coincided with or abutted congress\u2019 delayed budget approval.\u00a0 For meetings in April of 2011, planners had to nervously watch the news while getting pressure from both sides to pull the trigger on cancelling.\u00a0 At 4pm on Friday, April 8<sup>th<\/sup>, I encountered a group who pulled the trigger on cancelling their meeting for the following week.\u00a0 Their challenge with waiting until 11pm to learn their cancellation wasn\u2019t necessary was that should the government had shut down, there would have been no easy way to communicate to all the travelers of the cancellation as their emails would no longer be accessible.\u00a0 Because of this conundrum, the group had cancelled unnecessarily and the work of their meetings team was wasted.\u00a0 There\u2019s no telling whether the group will ultimately be rescheduled.\u00a0 And while a government shutdown may have invoked the contract\u2019s Force Majuere clause, the threat of said shutdown is a much grayer area.\u00a0 Should the hotel decide to enforce their cancellation, no doubt this bill should land at the front door of Senator Reid and Congressman Boehner.\u00a0 They can split it.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought the most loyal, recession proof, consistent, reliable market segment would never fail you, lawmakers on Capitol Hill rally to prove this theorem wrong.\u00a0 In what was one of the more embarrassing and disappointing weeks in public policy, Congress\u2019 ongoing struggle to ratify last year\u2019s budget has had rather abysmal affects on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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