Meetings and conventions bookings sluggish compared with trips for vacations

- Jun 17, 2013 3:03 am

Skift Take

Businesses are still being cautious about their travel budgets for meetings and conventions. The economic recovery is patchy, at best.

— Dennis Schaal

With the economy on the rebound, Americans once again are cracking open their pocketbooks to take family vacations and other leisure trips.

But corporate managers in charge of spending for business conferences and conventions remain tightfisted with their money.

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