There can be a belief that do organiser=travel agent. I worked very hard to avoid that on Island Do 2, and it worked fairly well, in that most people handled their own flight and hotel bookings. I'm hoping to do the same for Island Do 3, but because I'm the local expert on what to do, I will identify things to do which groups might go off and do together.

I think techgirl is correct, and the Megas have led the way on inflation, partly because they have had to get more professional with the numbers involved. Things which work no problem for 20 get difficult to cope with for 50+ (for example bill payment at restaurants - above about 10 people, we'll split the bill evenly (except for those that had no wine) and above about 40-50 I'd much rather do pre-payment, to stop the inevitable people who have ignored the requests to bring cash to pay with, and you suddenly find you have 15-20 people handing over cards, when the restaurant can do max 5!) Websites are easier to show information on (threads are great, but there is a point where they just get too unwieldy. And I'm sure we all know how many PMs etc we have to respond to giving information which is already there - websites do IMHO cut down on that a lot). But there is also a feeling of responsibility if someone is chosing to fly in TATL or even from Asia/Australasia to make it worthwhile for them to come that distance. I think one of the worst things you could say to a do organiser is that it wasn't worth going...