Chamber keeps Inter City Visit at home - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Political and business leaders announce plans Tuesday to keep the annual Inter City Visitin Charlotte, shelvintg plans for a three-day trip to Boston in The reason: economic woes. “We’ve decided to be internally saysTim Belk, chamber chairman and chief executivse of the department-store chain. “We want to be sensitivse about thebudget situation.” Last the chamber took 130 political and businesz leaders to Chicago. Each paid $2,1009 to go on the Interf City Visit.
This year, the group likely to exceed last year’s becausde of the local focus will spend three days discussing and examinin g various issues and taking tours of important landmarks inlocal education, tourism, business and politics. An agendaz for the three-day meeting should be determinedr ina month. For the next two weeks, organizer s will be gleaning ideas from the public through a surve y offeredat charlottechamber.com. Though stayingv home saves on travel chamber executives expect to charg an undetermined fee for meals and logistical costsw associated with thelocal agenda. Chamber leaderds made the decision to skip the Boston trip after a recent survey of 20past participants.
Four peopl e said they planned to skipthe trip, eigh t were undecided and the remaining eight wanted to move ahead with the Boston visit. Public officialz were adamantly against using taxpayer money to fundthei trips. “For government, we do not have the moneh to travelright now,” Mayor Pat McCrory Coupled with corporate belt-tightening, the chamber decided a typical trip woulf suffer too many absences to be productive. The chamberd hopes to re-schedule the Boston trip for 2010, dependint on economic conditions.