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Cos. push travel alternatives: planners promote remote conferencing mandates.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 26-APR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 803 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
A majority of corporate meeting buyers employ remote conferencing tools specifically to reduce meetings expenditures, and a significant amount of those buyers' corporations have enacted policies mandating the use of travel alternatives, according to an exclusive Meetings Today study.

According to the Meetings Monitor survey of 195 corporate meeting buyers, 60 percent used videoconferencing, Webconferencing or teleconferencing to cut their 2003 meetings spending, and 47 percent of respondents mandate the use of those technologies instead of travel in at least some cases.

The survey highlights the changing role of travel alternatives within corporate meetings management programs during the past few years. The days of buyers and suppliers alike presenting the technology alternatives as a way to enhance--not supplant--travel have...

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