Part A - Business Travel Authorization Request
To: John Kubisch From: Meghana Vishwanath Subject: Request for the approval of business travel Date: January 18, 2014
Dear John,
The purpose of this letter is to bring to your notice the benefits of business trip that is planned to Malaysia and Singapore to our company and request your approval for the same. In spite of the reluctance from the company to pursue this trip, I strongly believe there is a great benefit from this experiential learning and valuable scope of improvement to our company. The objective of this travel is to visit some companies in both the countries and understand their business process. A detailed description of the purpose of visiting these countries and the benefits of understanding business in these emerging markets is provided below, particularly explaining how this could help our business in serving our clients better.
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