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BTN Research: Remote Possibilities
Corporate onsite remote conferencing systems have become nearly ubiquitous, according to a new BTN survey, but integration with managed travel programs remains patchy.

Travel policies that govern their use are not common in the United States, and mandates even less so, as buyers labor to determine the best methods to direct especially internal meetings travel to the virtual realm.

According to a February BTN survey of 177 North American business travel buyers, 86 percent currently have onsite remote conferencing capabilities—audioconferencing, webconferencing, videoconferencing and telepresence—and 91 percent said their companies' travelers last year used conferencing tools.

Spurred by technological advances and widespread meetings spending cuts in 2009 that highlighted to senior corporate executives the benefits, broad use of such tools may have, at least for now, peaked as the economy and business travel demand slowly improve. ...

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