Why It’s Important to Book Within the Official Housing Block

Here's how you and ASIS&T benefit when you book your stay within the ASIS&T hotel block at the Salt Lake City Marriott City Creek, the official hotel contracted for the 2021 ASIS&T Annual Meeting:

1. ASIS&T has contracted hotel rooms at discounted rates on your behalf. If our contracted housing obligations are not met, the Association will pay substantial penalty fees to the hotel. This will require us to increase registration rates in the future to cover such penalties.
2. The hotel provides the Association with complimentary meeting space, which keeps the registration fees low. However, we must utilize a certain number of contracted sleeping rooms to receive the space complimentary.
3. The Association can monitor attendance through our room block. This enables us to be better prepared and helps with cost containment.
4. Part of the Association's business value to a city is measured by the total number of sleeping rooms utilized inside our contracted room block, as well as our spending on other services at the hotel. Booking within our block helps us to maintain our strong business value, which is critical to our negotiations with future cities and cost-containment efforts.