The Foremost Composite Materials Company is planning a two-day sales conference for October 19-20, starting with a reception on evening of October 18. The conference consists of all-day meetings that the entire sales force, numbering 125 sales representatives and their 16 managers must attend. each sales representative requires his or her own room and company needs two common meeting rooms, one large enough to hold the entire sales force plus a few visitors (200) and the other able to hold half the force. Management has a set of budget of $150,000 for the representatives' room rentals. The company would like to hold the conference in either Whistler, BC, or Montreal, QC, at a Hilton-or Marriott-owned hotel.

Use the Hilton and Marriott websites to select a hotel in whichever of these cities would enable the company to hold its sales conferences with in its budget and meet its sales conference requirements. Then locate flights arriving the afternoon prior to the conference. Your attendees will be coming from Toronto (54), Vancouver (32), Quebec City (22) Edmonton (19) and Winnipeg (14). Determine cost 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 $70 per attendee per day for food.