MOMENTUM BUILDS AGAINST BAD TRAVEL RULES: The list of professonal travel, hospitality, meeting, and transportation service organizations rallying against flawed business travel legislation is reaching critical mass. Such cooperation and backbone prove that businesses can move against ill-conceived governmental interference in the job-creating travel service marketplace.
NATIONAL BUSINESS TRAVEL ASSOCIATION
U.S. TRAVEL ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT AND MEETING PROFESSONALS INTERNATIONAL
TAXI LIMOUSINE AND PARATRANSIT ASSOCIATION
GREATER CALIFORNIA LIVERY ASSOCIATION
LA INC.
LOS ANGELES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU
Two websites are serving as a clearinghouse of information and resources to combat the proposed bill from Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, that would pose severe restrictions and chilling effects on business travel, and by extension, the chauffeured transportation industry:
MEETING INDUSTRY CRISIS CENTER
MEETINGS MEAN BUSINESS
-- M.R.
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