Attendance at the National Business Travel Association's first Mexico Corporate Travel Conference surpassed 200

and "is much higher than we expected when we planned this event," said NBTA president and CEO Suzanne Fletcher. More than one-third of the attendees are corporate buyers, NBTA estimated. The one-day event in Mexico City is part of a new strategy to expand NBTA's conferences beyond the United States and Canada into Mexico, Latin America and London.