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Christopherson Business Travel Launches TripIt Mobile Application
Christopherson Business Travel is pleased to announce the launch of their partnership with TripIt to provide TripIt’s award-winning trip management services and mobile application to all Christopherson travelers. TripIt was recently presented with the NBTA Innovation Award for Outstanding App and Christopherson is excited to make TripIt available to their travelers. TripIt will help Christopherson’s travelers [...]
Christopherson Receives Fast 50 Award
Last week Christopherson Business Travel was recognized, by Utah Business Magazine, as one of Utah’s 50 fastest growing companies, for the second year in a row. The recipients are recognized “for their innovative business tactics and their skyrocketing revenue growth.” We were all congratulated for demonstrating notable entrepreneurial spirit, innovative business tactics, and the ability [...]
Vacation division has new name Andavo Travel
In January 2008, Christopherson Business Travel, located in Salt Lake City, and Andavo Travel, located in Denver, began a merger process forming the nation’s 14th largest travel management company. We are pleased to announce the merger process has concluded with a consolidated ownership and branding of our companies. Effective this month, we will be operating [...]
Christopherson Andavo Travel Consolidates Ownership and Branding
Two years ago Christopherson Business Travel and Andavo Travel began a merger process, which formed the nation’s 14th largest travel management company. We are pleased to announce that this process has now resulted in a fully merged company with consolidated ownership and branding. Effective June 1st, we will be operating our entire corporate travel management [...]
TravelAcumen® – Travel Manager Suite
TravelAcumen® provides the Travel Manager access to robust travel management tools. Over the years, Christopherson Andavo Travel has created a powerful group of proprietary technology tools for travel management. Most of these tools were developed to provide a solution to specific challenges that our clients presented to us. We realized we needed a branded, single-sign-on [...]
Innovation – Developing Successful New Products
The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “the Path to Developing Successful New Products”. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400593760720388.html The WSJ surveyed businesses with the best product-development track records and found three common denominators: 1. A clear sense of focus on project goals 2. Strong project culture in the workplace 3. Close contact to their customers [...]
Does your Company have a Unique Competitive Advantage?
Author and consultant Jaynie L. Smith asks this question. Businesses must differentiate between “unique competitive advantages” and strengths. While strengths are important they are not differentiators. You need strengths just to stay in business. Most businesses tout advantages, when they’re really standard strengths and most likely clichés. One of the best examples of a worn-out [...]
AirPortal® – Traveler Communication Suite
The genesis for AirPortal® came from the banking model. It occurred to us that everyone can access their banking transactions from one simple log-in. Whether you transact your banking on-line, use the drive-up window, go inside the bank, use mail or do it with electronic transfers, you can always find all of your banking transactions [...]
Upward Inflection Points in Christopherson’s Growth Story
Christopherson was recently recognized as number 21 of the 50 fastest growing companies in Utah. The award is based upon sales growth over a five year period (2004-2008). We were asked to explain some of our company’s big revenue jumps and milestones. A review of our growth history shows a number of significant upward inflection [...]
AirSelect® – Marries personalized agent service with the efficiencies of online
Christopherson’s AirSelect® Flight Options Matrix was created by our in-house IT developers specifically in response to meet the needs of one of our top corporate booking agents, John Thomson. John had his larynx removed as a result of throat cancer. We were all devastated. As a company we made a commitment to him, to find a [...]