"10 round trip flights per quarter would be 50,000 to 100,000. Add on travel and accomodations, meals, and incidentals whille there and the number increases about $300 per person per day. Three people for 30 days would be 27,000. Three people for 90 days would be $81,000. Add that to the $100,000 in flights and you are talking about $180,000 for travel to Peru!"

lack of logic aside...I must say this almost made me fall off my chair.

here is a little recent context...

I just spent 3 months in Mumbai, India on business.

- Round trip flight plus domestic transfers

- 3 months accomodations in a 5 star Westin (Pool, 5 star restos, fitness centre etc. etc.)

- Personal driver and taxi to and from work everyday (45 minutes)

- 3 meals a day in 4 and 5 star restos throughout the city

Total cost from my front door in Toronto - back to my front door in Toronto.....$7000.00 CAD

3 people would have been approximately $18000.00 ($21000.00 minus shared expenses)

Cost of travel to and within Lima, Peru about 10% less than Mumbai, India

180K is so far out of whack that it would be difficult to even try to spend that much money in Peru without purchasing hard assets like cars, boats etc. Now consider how hard it would be to spend that kind of money if you were planning/restricting travel responsibly relative to the cashflow situation within the company at the time?

*sigh*

S