IRVING, TEXAS HOTELS OFFER ATTRITION-FREE PROGRAM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:  Diana Pfaff

972-252-7476

dpfaff@irvingtexas.com

IRVING, TEXAS - More than 100 North Texas hotels, including several in Irving, are offering special incentives, such as attrition-free clauses, for group meetings booked and held in Irving and the Dallas/Fort Worth area through June 2010.

Designed to address meeting and event planners’ most essential priorities, the DFW Meet Now Promise co-op program includes the following incentives:

• Competitive rates and proposals from Irving area hotels with a guarantee of fully-waived room attrition.
• 20 percent discount from participating ground transportation providers.
• Additional group discounts and comps on American Airlines.
• A convenient on-line solution for the meeting planner by visiting where they can register their RFP on line.  Client preferences will be matched to venues, hotels and meeting requirements. For a link to search participating hotels and submit an RFP, visit: www.irvingtexas.com/attritionfree

What is attrition and why do hotels charge attrition?

• Attrition clauses are a part of standard hotel contracts used to ensure that organizations fulfill their contracted obligations.

• Attrition fees are applied when a conference group cannot fill at least 80%, or an otherwise agreed upon percentage, of the contracted number of rooms.

• The organization is responsible for using a minimum number of sleeping rooms per contract and if those minimums are not met, attrition penalties, meeting room and exhibit hall charges will apply.

• Attrition fees are compensation to the hotel for the rooms that might have been sold had they not been removed from the market by contract.

About Irving and the Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Located immediately adjacent to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and in between Dallas and Fort Worth, Irving, Texas, (www.irvingtexas.com) boasts more than 75 hotels and nearly 12,000 rooms.  Las Colinas, a 12,000-acre master-planned community within the city of Irving, is known worldwide for its quality and uniqueness. The area has a total taxable base of more than $7 billion and is home to 8,000+ companies, 30 Fortune 500 companies, plus the world headquarters of four. In the next three years, the area will see more than $4 billion in hotel, retail, entertainment, office, residential and meeting facility development.

The D/FW area is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the nation, the #1 visitor destination in the state and a leading convention destination.  DFW International Airport, a successful collaborative venture between North Texas cities, is now the world’s third-busiest airport, offering nearly 1,750 flights daily and providing non-stop service to 134 domestic and 37 international destinations worldwide.

For more information, contact the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau at 972-252-7476 or on-line at www.irvingtexas.com/attritionfree.

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