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  Howard - I am not sure whether they would have time to enjoy local facilities!! The point is that places suitable to accommodate such a conference particularly with the security are often places that are also holiday destinations. Dover for instance would not have the facilities needed.
  
  Video conferencing, as I say, can work well. One sophisticated system Citywire has for Board Meetings means that New York and London directors can meet thousands of miles apart with a big screen on a wall and it is almost as if they are all in the same room. Nevertheless what it lacks are those important informal moments when legs are stretched or drinks are poured in which time personal relationships are developed. My own view is that even a system like Citywire's is inferior to grasping the flesh and looking close up into someone's eye with whom you are negotiating or debating and that, I think are essential elements of summits.
  
  Look at it this way - we all know what Paris or New York are like from television and films but do we really know what they are like if we have not been there! Same thing with meeting people.

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