Current News Archive

6 February 2019
Beware of Unauthorized Hotel Service Providers for Annual Meeting

Several 2019 Health Physics Society (HPS) Annual Meeting exhibitors, attendees, and members have been contacted by housing vendors who are offering to provide room rates and hotel services for HPS. These companies are NOT affiliated with HPS!

Attendees and exhibitors should be cautious of companies that:

  • Call you directly claiming they are official housing partners and have the best rates for Orlando. HPS will never call you directly to solicit hotel reservations.
  • Claim to be affiliated with HPS by offering discounted hotel rates, which often can be too good to be true.
  • Ask you to provide your contact information and credit-card details and require full prepayment in advance.
  • Claim to have availability at their advertised hotels, but may take the money for the rooms, then later cancel without refunding to you.

There are plenty of rooms available at the Hilton Orlando hotel. All meeting links are available on the HPS Orlando hotel page. The only way to book your room at the reduced HPS block rate is directly at the special hotel reservation link.

If you receive calls or emails that do NOT come directly from either HPS.org or burkinc.com, they are unauthorized outside vendors and should be regarded as a potential scam.

Please contact Society headquarters with any questions.