Thank you.
I don't think there's any harm in asking if there's an openness to this on the committee. I'm also on another committee, and every trip we've proposed in the last couple of years has been rejected, so I don't have much hope.
I also have some concerns around the cost and, frankly, the timing as things move forward, but I think expressing an interest in finding out what's going on in arts and culture to those who review travel plans is not a bad thing. If they say no, then I think that's it, and perhaps we can look at other travel studies down the line if in fact we're still here.