> RussellMc wrote:
>> * fwiw I recently managed 1+ week in China for $US2000 all up incl
>> airfares, 4* hotel, meals and internal travel.

> It sounds like you left out the cost of your time, which should actually =
be
> the significant cost.

Yes.
That's what I meant by

> . Note, no allowance has been made in that for cost of visitor.

If any such costs are part of the project already, they have to be
allowed for but may/should  already have been included in the
costings.
I was noting the additional cost of being THERE as opposed to being
HERE. In your case HERE (USA) is  fine when THERE is Serbia. Being
HERE has the great advantage of being able to spend what time is
needed on the project then walk out and go home or work on another
project etc. Being there doesn't allow that but usually provides lots
of things to point cameras at :-). Also THERE allows a number of
related activities which allow you to amortise travel costs. [[Like
visiting people who have  copied your product** and sitting in their
conference room while they explain it to you :-) ]]. ** Whether such
copying is legal or moral is moot - and not something liable to be
solved in this lifetime by mere engineers. (Whose laws and whose
ethics do you apply, and why?)


       R
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