What will event planners do to guarantee accommodations to attendees if the practice of booking room blocks disappears? This and many other questions were discussed on this week’s #eventtable chat, with guest Doreen Ashton Wagner of Greenfield Services.

The chat went in many interesting directions addressing:

* procrastinating attendees who wait until the last minute to register

* how an online trend toward do-it-yourself hotel booking contributes to the problem

* the emergence of many distribution channels

* planner frustration with trying to change attendee habits

* a possible greater role for CVBs mediating between hotels & planners

* how hotels can stave off the trend away from room blocks

For the entire Storify summary of the March 26 chat, click here.

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