Waking Up in Disneyland
Alex Parker has the details on the the way some Senators are moving to defend home-state tourism revenues by seeking equal protection for all localities that want their share of the federal conference business. Like I've said before, that seems like a good idea to me. Federal travel should be determined by practicality and reasonable cost, and practicality and reasonable cost alone.
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I've heard that at my agency we can not have conferences at "resort towns" such as Orlando and Las Vegas because of the "image" it presents. However, if people would realize that these places offer the cheapest rates and would save taxpayers the most money they would realize it makes sense to go there. Instead I am sent to very high cost cities that basically no one wants to go to, all it does is make the employees miserable and wastes money on high hotel and per diem rates. There is a reason Disney has a conference center and cheap hotel rates, to attract business, but no we can't have anyone think a Federal employee might actually enjoy going to training or a conference. Instead I get to go to Newark in the winter. Where would someone learn more? Someplace they were happy to be or some place they just can't wait to get out of and back home?
david Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:49 PM