James works as a project manager for a major IT company in UK. He must travel to Los Angeles, to negotiate revisions to a contract with a US company. The key issues presented are the additional costs due to complex software requirements changes. He has two weeks to prepare for the meetings, which will run over a period of three days in Los Angeles. His department is currently spread pretty thin working on several projects simultaneously. Jamess team is a fairly homogeneous group, most with information technology backgrounds. However, his two senior people typically disagree on everything.

Question: Assume that one of the team members is Jamess cousin John. John argues that he wants to join the team to travel to Los Angeles so he can do some tourism there. Do you believe that there is a conflict of interest? Why? From the Responsibility perspective, how should the project manager act to handle this situation?