Here in central Nebraska, where hotels fill to capacity every spring weekend, it is clear that birds now have a powerful constituency.

With the Bridge about to meet, Northdyke was crowded, the hotels filled.

By the time he decided to call the fire department, the hotel was filling with smoke.

Fire destroyed a residential hotel in Miami Beach filled largely with elderly retired people.

And a hotel would fill another need in Harlem, he said: a place for large gatherings.

And that means the hotels are already filling up-yes, months early-with delegations from every member.

With the coming of winter the hotel filled up and Joe was kept busy from morning to night, so that he had little time for studying.

Despite the high prices, the big hotels fill to capacity in the peak summer season.

That, he said, has "opened up a lot of space in the corporate travel budget, and hotels partially have filled this gap."

"We're in a reasonably good position to not only help the hotels fill the rooms, but also give our customers some really good rates."