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Buyers yet to deploy mtgs. tools.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 03-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Despite the rapid development of meetings management technology, many corporations have yet to adopt automated tools to plan and source corporate events, according to an exclusive Meetings Monitor survey of 186 corporate meeting buyers. Buyers said they are taking a wait-and-see approach as technology products on the market continue to mature.

Sixty percent of survey respondents said their companies had not yet adopted meetings technology, while 36 percent said such tools already were in use and another 4 percent said their companies planned to adopt meetings technology this year.

"It's something that I'll look at in the future. Our meetings are mostly of a certain size so it's not necessarily an imperative thing for me at the moment," said Robin Buzzeo, corporate travel manager for Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., an Israeli pharmaceutical company with U.S. headquarters in New York.

Technology is best applied to large events, Buzzeo said, although as the number of smaller events at the company increases, a tool may be considered.

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