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Hotel accommodation issues for Poznan climate conference cleared up. “Our rules are clear: fixed price paid upon arrival”

2008-07-31
Warsaw, July 30 – talks with the owners of facilities providing accommodation for COP 14 conference were finalized. The guests of the most important climatic congress will not be forced to pay the full amount in advance several months prior to their visit in Poland. As a result of negotiations held by the Ministry of Environment and COP 14 organization team most of Poznań’ hotels and other available accommodations have adopted a unified system of reservations and prepayments.
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Hotel owners and agents guarantee a fixed price for the whole duration of the conference and the reservation confirmation deadline has been prolonged.
Early bookings are possible until September 15. Those who decide to make a reservation before that date will have 10 consecutive days to confirm the reservation and 30 days (but before September 30) to pay in 30% of the total price. Another 20% of the prepayment must be paid before October 31 the rest of the amount has to be paid the latest on the day of arrival.
Those making reservations after September 15 will have 5 days to confirm the reservation and will need to pay 50% of the price within 15 days not later than on October 10 and another 20% afterwards.
All payments can be made with credit cards.

As of July 30, 2008 the system has been accepted by over 50 hotels including Sheraton, Andersia, Polonez, Vivaldi, Edison, and Trawiński.

COP 14 (The 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with the 4th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol), which will take place on 1 – 12 December 2008 in Poznań, is the most prestigious forum of political discussion in the scope of climate protection, attracting the attention of the entire world. The Conference is organised by the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and hosted by the Government of the Republic of Poland, while the preparations are coordinated by the Ministry of the Environment of the Republic of Poland. It is envisaged that the two-week sessions will be attended by 8,000 participants: more than 190 government delegations headed by the Ministers for the Environment or Climate Change, international institutions, environmental, business and research non-governmental organisations and media.


For more information:
Magda Sikorska
Media co-ordinator / Programme Officer COP 14 Host Country
Tel: (022) 579 27 22
Mobile: 0695100978
E-mail: magda.sikorska@mos.gov.pl
magda.sikorska@cop14.gov.pl

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