<VV> 2007 Hotel Credit Card Processing

[Harry Jensen, CORSA Executive Secretary]

Hello--

At 09:45 AM 3/14/2007, Terry wrote:
>Actually there are several other options:
>
>1. Go ahead and reserve a room with a credit card, just don't tell them 
>you are with CORSA.  As said before the issue is not reserving a room it 
>is paying for the first night which is a CORSA requirement not the Hotel's.

Ah, no. CORSA has all the rooms. See:

http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/priceAvail.do?propertyCode=23100

Try to book the dates (I just used 7/24-7/29). It says 'Not available'.

>2. Register at a nearby lodging establishment.

Yep, you could.

>The problem stems from CORSA's requirement that the first night be paid 
>for... I understand the rationale for the requirement, but see the 
>possibility that the policy may back-fire and CORSA may shoot themselves 
>in the foot.
>Seems to me that if you want to encourage people to stay at the host hotel 
>every effort should be made to make it an easy, risk-free 
>process.  Hopefully a reasonable solution can be reached.

I think you understand what the problem is. How would you handle it? How 
would you limit CORSA's exposure, yet make it easy for people to make 
reservations understanding that the hotel's card processor is inflexible 
regarding processing credit cards?

--H


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