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NGS has been
alerted to a problem affecting NGS and other trade show exhibitors. Businesses
that have no business relationship with the LVH are calling exhibitors and
posing as wholesale vendors who provide conference vendors with hotel rooms at
deeply discounted rates. One NGS exhibitor explained, “It just seemed too good
to be true.” After she researched the company, she became concerned and
forwarded their information to NGS. The LVH—Las Vegas
Neither NGS
nor the LVH will call you to solicit your reservation. Companies that have no
business relationships with the LVH that have contacted our exhibitors include
Global Housing Services Corporation and VHS Housing Services. For your own
protection, do not make reservations through an unknown housing or travel
company.
If you are
or have been approached by a third-party company purporting to sell you a room
at the LVH for the NGS conference, do not give them your credit card
information unless you determine for certain that the company has a business
relationship with the LVH. Otherwise, you may lose the charges you authorize
and you will not have a room at the LVH. Instead, collect the name of the
business and ask the caller to send you their forms. Please forward the
materials to NGS Conference Manager, Erin Shifflett, at [email protected]. With
your permission, we will forward the forms to the LVH so they can build a
profile of these companies.
For
more examples of these types of unauthorized practices, see the following:
- American
- American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, "Unauthorized Housing
Providers," 2012 ASHA Convention,
- Florida Educational Technology Conference, "FETC 2010 Attendee and Exhibitors Urged to be Wary of Solicitations from Unauthorized Hotel and Housing Providers," FETC 2010, Orlando, Florida, http://legacy.fetc.org/conferencehotels.aspx
- interNational Association of Lighting Management Companies, "Hotel Accommodations," 59th Annual NALMCO Trade Show, Rancho Mirage, California, 2012, https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/NALMCO12/Hotel/?&
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