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Monday Buzz: Why Boston Doesn’t Have Cheap Rooms

Associations Now

An array of economic and geographic pressures have boosted Boston’s hotel rooms to extremely high rates. Case in point: the current situation in the Boston metro area. Those are the going rates now in Boston,” Paul Sacco, executive director at the Massachusetts Lodging Association, told the newspaper.

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Hospitality Groups: Could Reduced DC Metro Service Derail Business?

Associations Now

Restaurant and hotel associations argue that reduced DC Metro service will hit employees particularly hard and deter customers. Employees do have other options to get to their jobs—think ridesharing or taxicabs—but those alternatives come with additional costs. “It appeared first on Associations Now.

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CompTIA Study Finds Tech Hubs Where You Wouldn’t Expect Them

Associations Now

The list put a lean on cities that had affordable costs of living, but even considering that, some of the most expensive cities in the country—including San Francisco, Boston, and San Jose, California—ranked high on the list. Part of the reason? Topping the list overall were two cities in North Carolina—Charlotte and Raleigh.

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Will Chapters Be Relevant in 2021?

Mariner Management

These conglomerations of metro areas bound together through business drive our local businesses to reach further and cross over traditional chapter boundaries. Case in point is the Boston-Washington corridor. New York Times predicts the threshold for what requires travel, and the time, cost and fatigue it brings, will rise.

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Build Communities Around Your Most Engaged Users

Associations Now

The Boston Globe , like other legacy newspapers, has a lot of problems and some major issues to solve. Boston media blogger Dan Kennedy has the details on that.). If other metro dailies could go ahead and do this as well, it would help us all have a much larger dataset to understand what’s successful, what isn’t.”.

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