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Financial cos. see higher '07 meetings budgets.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 09-OCT-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Increases in meeting budgets generally are tracking with higher hotel rates, but financial services firms are expected to be the strongest players in the meetings industry in 2007, according to consultants. Buyers for such companies report receiving strong support from their senior management for new initiatives.

The Financial and Insurance Conference Planners association recently conducted a survey of its more than 400 corporate planners, in which one-third of respondents said their companies had increased their meeting budgets for 2007, according to FICP board chairman Michael...

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