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The Acrobatics of Rock & Roll Business Travel

Getting the McCartney show on the road is nothing short of a business travel management miracle. Continue reading

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Christopherson Business Travel is an Affiliate of BCD Travel

Christopherson Business Travel is a BCD Travel affiliate. BCD Travel operates in more than 95 countries, with $22.8 billion in total sales and a combined worldwide workforce of 11,000. (Read more about BCD, here.) Operating throughout North America, the BCD … Continue reading

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BCD Travel Founder, John A. Fentener van Vlissingen, Talks about BCD History

Christopherson Business Travel is a BCD Travel Affiliate. We joined as an affiliate 20 years ago, when it was then called BTI Americas. Being affiliated with the third largest global travel management company has been good, both for us and … Continue reading

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AirPortal 360™ is a Business Travel Management Nerve Center

Christopherson Business Travel recently released AirPortal 360™ which was the culmination of major investments and two years of work in building our proprietary travel management technology platform. In creating AirPortal 360, we had three main objectives: 1.    To create a … Continue reading

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Christopherson Business Travel Offers the 2013 BCD Travel Hotel Program

As an affiliate of BCD Travel, Christopherson Business Travel offers the BCD Travel Hotel Program to our clients. BCD is a provider of global corporate travel management and operates in more than 95 countries, with US$20.8 billion in total sales. … Continue reading

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Forecasting Business Travel Spend for 2013

As 2013 approaches we’re all involved in planning and forecasting for the new year. And in fact, the business travel industry tends to act as a “leading economic indicator.” As the economy improves, the travel industry actually grows ahead of … Continue reading

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How to Accelerate Change

John P. Kotter wrote an interesting article in November’s Harvard Business Review about how organizations can increase the likelihood, and the success, of making necessary changes. A key component of his strategy is to recruit volunteers who are more naturally … Continue reading

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Creating and Maintaining a Unique Competitive Advantage

As we have grown Christopherson Business Travel from a $1 million company to a more than $300 million company over the last 21 years we have maintained a tight focus on creating a unique competitive advantage. We have worked hard … Continue reading

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Zoom Up and Zoom Out: Best Business Practices from the CEO of a Multi-Million Dollar Company

Most frequent flyers have preferences for how they like to use their “flying time.” Personally, my inclinations vary from reading, to watching movies, to playing Scrabble with my wife, to catching up on e-mail. Delta’s addition of Wi-Fi on domestic … Continue reading

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Delta Expands at LaGuardia and Invests in the Customer Experience

Delta Launches the Final Phase of Their Expansion at the New York-LaGuardia Airport In July Delta added 11 new destinations from the hub in addition to a dozen new routes launched in March, completing the largest route expansion at the … Continue reading

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