I'm really not sure why you're being downvoted here. This is absolutely spot-on and part of the reason why the whole 'teleconferencing will wipe out business tr

I'm really not sure why you're being downvoted here. This is absolutely spot-on and part of the reason why the whole 'teleconferencing will wipe out business travel' movement never really took off the way it was intended. There is absolutely value in meeting together in person, if nothing else other than to deepen a relationship. This is especially true in non-US cultures where a deep emphasis is placed on building trust in person before ever getting to business related matters. As a side note, I've used pretty much all of the major video conference vendors and find it extremely annoying that, even in 2017, some rather large percentage of calls will have some kind of issue during a call, if it can connect at all.