5-11 In this exercise, you’ll use software at various online travel sites to obtain pricing for total travel and lodging costs for a sales conference.

EuroPlastiques is a leading EU plastics company. EuroPlastiques is planning a two-day sales conference for June 19–20, starting with a reception on the evening of June 18. The conference consists of all-day meetings that the entire sales force, numbering 100 sales representatives and their 15 managers, must attend. Each sales representative requires his or her own room, and the company needs two common meeting rooms, one large enough to hold the entire sales force plus a few visitors (150 total)

and the other able to hold half the force. The company would like to hold the conference in either Zurich, Switzerland, or Milan, Italy, at a Marriott- or Novotel-owned hotel. Use the Marriott and Novotel Web sites to select a hotel in whichever of these cities would enable the company to hold its sales conference within its budget and meet its sales conference requirements. Then locate flights arriving the afternoon prior to the conference.

Your attendees will be coming from Paris (44), London (22), Amsterdam (20), Stockholm (18), and Dublin (11). Determine costs of each airline ticket from these cities. When you are finished, create a budget for the conference. The budget will include the cost of each airline ticket, the room cost, and 60 euros per attendee per day for food