Skye Livingston, Backroads' trip development coordinator, describes the trip as moderately easy to challenging, with the latter sections optional.
For more-rugged terrain, Candice Criscione, a trip development coordinator in Italy for Backroads, said she always buys over-the-ankle boots for proper support to avoid sprained ankles.
In December, they said, he was on a follow-up trip for Development Alternatives Inc., a contractor working with the United States Agency for International Development.
"Somebody doesn't want to sell because they're making a profit, or because it's been in the family for decades, and how can I sell this property Grandpa assembled?" If the lots are small, Mr. Dolkart continued, just one holdout can trip up development for all the neighbors.
According to Banerjee, corporate-led efforts at development trip up for at least two main reasons.
Mr. Nagin left for China on Friday on an economic development trip.
"It makes sense for Muslims, Jews and Christians to be educated together," he said in a telephone interview last week from London, another stop on his economic development trip.
But Secretary Powell's schedule that month is already full, with a planned trip to a development conference in South Africa and the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
But the law allowing time off for good behavior did not go into effect until 1981 and was not retroactive, said Chrissy Pearson, a spokeswoman for Governor Perdue, who is on an economic development trip to China.
The foundation arranged for Mr. Perry and his wife to use a private plane for an economic development trip to Israel in 2009, paid for with an $180,000 donation from a road-building contractor, according to published reports confirmed by the governor's office.
Critics like Keith Elkins, the executive director of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, said the few records that had been released to the public included rentals for a golf cart and scuba gear during an economic development trip Mr. Perry made to the Bahamas in 2005.
