[tei-council] date, venue for next meeting

[Susan Schreibman]

Hotels near the university of Maryland range from $150 for the nicest 
hotel on campus, to around $80.00, for a Best Western type hotel.

It would cost me:

$1250 to get to Tokyo
$800.00 to get to Paris
$700 to get to Oxford

one caveat with Maryland, is that we'd need to sort out transportation 
to dinner. I could rent a van from the campus pool, but it would not be 
large enough for everybody, so we might need to rent a car in addition 
unless somebody was driving in. That might cost an additional $300.00 
(based on a rental for four days)

Another option would be have Council members stay in a hotel in DC, and 
take the metro out to U of Maryland for the meeting (c 50 minutes). In 
that case, hotels would cost on average $170 a night, with minimal 
transport costs.

susan

susan


Christian Wittern wrote:

>Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk> writes:
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>>for the sake of argument, can we look at the last week of May 2006 and
>>do comparative costings for Tokyo and Washington? How about if people
>>estimated travel costs for those two locations? I am happy to do
>>correlate a
>>table if desired.
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>>for example, for me Tokyo costs £490 (more or less), and Washington
>>about £450.
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>If we do the meeting in Kyoto, which I would recommend, you should
>look for flights into Kansai (sometimes called Osaka) Airport (KIX).
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>I could go to Washington for about 800 Euro, to Paris or London for
>about 750 Euro. Kyoto would cost me noting.  These fares are based on
>the Feb. prices, since the search engine I used does not give prices
>for May (and most Airlines have not published the discounted prices
>for May yet anyway).
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>>Oxford would cost me nothing, Paris about £150
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>>What are chances of cheapish hotels in Kyoto? or Washington?
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>>On the whole, Paris likely to be cheapest :-}
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>I just did a quick search here,
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>http://domestic.hotel.travel.yahoo.co.jp/bin/ajsearch?tuki=12&hi=20&haku=1&pnum=1&rnum=12&ken=26&larea=&marea=&os=1&pmin=&pmax=2&via=top&x=42&y=12
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>which revealed that there seem to be quite some options for "cheapish"
>hotels in Kyoto -- in this case, less than 10000 Yen (about 70 Euro)
>per night.  You might have to put up with staff that only barely
>understands, much less speaks English though. 
>
>I would like to add that the decision should not be solely on economic
>grounds.  As I said during the call, I would try to organize some
>workshop with the meeting, which will allow me to pay some travel out
>of the pockets of a grant.  I just had a word with the powers to be
>and the prospect for this seems to be quite good.  The catch with the
>workshop is, that we will need to publish a report with the papers
>presented, but again that should not be a problem I hope. 
>
>All the best,
>
>Christian
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