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Tripit Pro

March 3, 2010 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Travel Technology • No Comments

Tripit Pro is a robust, mobile application that works with your Android, Blackberry or iPhone based smartphone. Christopherson Andavo is an authorized Tripit Pro reseller. This means we can get you a huge discount on your Tripit Pro annual rate (huge = almost half off). The basic Tripit application is free, but if you choose [...]


The not so friendly skies (warning! science content)

February 17, 2010 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Travel News • No Comments

From one of my favorite sites comes some very interesting information to consider on your next long flight. Here is a teaser quote from Science@NASA: Instruments scanning outer space for cataclysmic explosions called gamma-ray bursts are detecting intense flashes of gamma-ray energy right here in the friendly skies of Earth. These terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) [...]


Reimbursement efficiencies with HotelPrepayLogic™

December 2, 2009 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Travel Technology • No Comments

HotelPrepayLogic™ currently helps our clients securely and easily pay for non-employee hotel costs (think contract workers, interviewees, etc.) but it is also helping our clients recognize operational efficiencies with employee travel and the painful reimbursement process that follows. Before HotelPrepayLogic™, our clients’ travelers would provide a personal credit card as a form of payment for [...]


Rusty Chambers featured on Fox News

December 1, 2009 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Vacation Travel • No Comments

Rusty Chambers is featured on Utah’s Fox 13 News on how to find your holiday travel deal.


We’re the 21st fastest growing company in Utah

August 31, 2009 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Travel News • No Comments

Christopherson Business Travel was named as the 21st fastest growing company in Utah by Utah Business Magazine at the Fast 50 event.


How HotelPrepayLogicTM saves you money

August 27, 2009 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Travel Technology • One Comment

HotelPrepayLogicTM does more than catch incorrect billings on prepaid hotels, it prevents it! Here’s an example chain of events and how HotelPrepayLogicTM can save you money on your prepaid hotel transactions: Hotel punches in credit card number from the automatically generated fax (check out here for how the fax is generated and sent). They enter [...]


Introducing HotelPrepayLogicTM

August 20, 2009 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Travel Technology • 2 Comments

A lot of our clients need to send credit card form of payment information to hotels for travelers who don’t have corporate cards. In travel speak this is called “prepaid hotels.” There are a lot of reasons our clients do this – contractor or interview travel, an employee doesn’t have enough personal credit to put [...]


AirBank® Connector for MySabre Enhancements

August 6, 2009 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Travel Technology • No Comments

AirBank® is one of our most successful proprietary products preserving almost $1 million dollars worth of our clients unused tickets every month. We built it – from scratch. Like most unused ticket products, it automatically catalogs your unused tickets. But it doesn’t just stop there. After all, what good is cataloging those unused tickets if [...]


Contracted rates in AirSelect®

July 15, 2009 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Travel Technology • No Comments

We all know how much value a dedicated travel agent can bring to your company’s travel program. But have you ever tried to get a comprehensive list of flight options over the phone? It takes a lot of time and isn’t very practical. That’s why we developed AirSelect®. It allows the best of both worlds [...]


AirPortal®, now served with Rearden Commerce

July 1, 2009 • By: Chad Maughan • Posted in: Travel Technology • No Comments

Travel is a pretty data intensive industry. There is a lot to keep track of. One thing that makes it even worse is that the data and systems are so disparate (um, that would be disparate, not desperate – although one could argue at times they are both, hehe). You have your itinerary in one [...]