Conference rates cut for hoteliers

YEARS of haggling with customers has obviously taught the country’s hotel owners and managers a thing or two about nabbing a bargain.

So when hundreds of owners and managers said they could not attend the hotel industry’s largest annual conference, the organisers responded in the only way they could — the offer of a reduced rate.

And it seems the Irish Hotels Federation’s (IHF) decision to slash conference prices for the first time in its 72-year history has done the trick.