Conference Travel and Lodging Caution

SACNAS' privacy policy ensures that SACNAS does not sell or distribute our members', participants', or affiliates' contact information to others. SACNAS employs office practices and website precautions to protect the privacy of our community. SACNAS and our legal council are taking the necessary steps to address the concern outlined below.

SACNAS has learned that a travel company has been contacting SACNAS affiliates and exhibitors posing as SACNAS' housing bureau for this year's conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Please note, SACNAS does NOT have a housing bureau for the conference.

SACNAS encourages participants to book travel and hotel reservations with our officially contracted partners, which are listed on the Travel and Lodging homepage. If you have been contacted by an outside company regarding making a hotel reservations, suggesting that the SACNAS hotels are nearly or completely sold out, and/or suggesting that you make reservations in other nearby hotels with which SACNAS does not have a contract, we ask that you please send an email with dates and details to the SACNAS conference manager.

All hotel reservations for the 2008 SACNAS National Conference—except for individuals for whom SACNAS will be making travel and lodging arrangements (including travel scholarship recipients and sponsored speakers)—should be made directly with the SACNAS call-in hotels where we have reserved blocks of rooms: the Hotel Monaco, Marriott City Center, and Salt Lake City Hilton. Links and reservation numbers to these hotels can be found on the SACNAS Travel and Lodging homepage.

At this point in time, there are still plenty of rooms available in SACNAS' room blocks. In order to reserve a room at SACNAS' discounted rates, you must mention SACNAS when you make the reservation. Hotel reservations made through any outside travel agent or housing bureau will not be at the SACNAS discounted rate and will not count toward SACNAS' room block at the hotel. SACNAS may face a significant financial penalty with the hotels if our entire room block is not reserved.

Participants in the 2008 SACNAS National Conference requiring assistance with air or ground travel, please feel free to contact SACNAS' official travel agency, Cain Travel. Mention SACNAS to take advantage of our discounted group fares and help SACNAS earn tickets for student travel scholarship recipients.