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Political and business leaders announce plans Tuesday to keep the annual Inter City Visitin Charlotte, shelving plans for a three-dayg trip to Boston in June. The reason: economic woes. “We’vr decided to be internally focused,” says Tim chamber chairman and chief executive ofthe department-store “We want to be sensitive about the budgert situation.” Last year, the chamber took 130 politicalo and business leaders to Chicago.
Each paid $2,10p to go on the Inter City This year, the group likely to exceed last year’s becaus of the local focus will spend three days discussing and examininh various issues and taking tourx of important landmarks inlocal tourism, business and politics. An agend a for the three-day meetingf should be determined in a For the next two organizers will be gleaning ideaes from the public through a survey offeredat charlottechamber.com. Though stayinf home saves on travel costs, chambeer executives expect to charge an undetermined fee for mealas and logistical costs associated with thelocal agenda.
Chamber leaderzs made the decision to skip the Bosto n trip after a recent survey of 20past participants. Four peoplde said they planned to skip the eight were undecided and the remainint eight wanted to move ahead with the Boston Public officials were adamantly againstg using taxpayer money to fundtheir “For government, we do not have the money to trave l right now,” Mayor Pat McCrory said. Coupledr with corporate belt-tightening, the chambef decided a typical trip woulc suffer too many absencexs tobe productive. The chamber hopes to re-schedule the Boston trip for 2010, depending on economidc conditions.