Fire up Travelocity.com - the presidential inauguration is on Jan. 20, 2009, 2 months away, and although the president-elect is still unknown, hotels in Washington, D.C. are booking quickly. Accorinding to the USA Today:
Interest in the official balls and the hundreds of related events spikes any time a new set of players takes office, and this year’s extra-long and historic primary season has ratcheted expectations further and faster.
“We’re pushing ahead a little earlier than normal,” says Colleen Evans of Marriott International’s two Ritz-Carlton hotels in the District. “Whichever party wins, it will bring in people who probably have not been your regular customers in the past. So it’s a great opportunity for a hotel to become the place to be.”
Says Ed Rudzinski, general manager of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, “All bets are off as far as the amount of business you will do.”
He already has sold all 1,340 rooms during the four-day inaugural period at $350 to $400 a night, and he has booked a pre-inaugural bash for 2,000 revelers.
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