Archive for the ‘Travel Management’ Category

The Value of Adventures by Disney®

Contact your Virtuoso® travel advisor to book your family adventure and you’ll receive two Disney-themed watches plus one Adventures by Disney® specialty document holder! Viva Italia 9 Days/8 Nights • Available April 2011 – December 2011 Itinerary: Rome • Tuscany • Venice Trip Highlights: Tour of Roman Colosseum and Forum Walking tour of Spanish Steps, [...]


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 [...]


TSA …. Get ready… Get set… Go!

Starting in May of 2009, here at CBT, we began gathering the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Secure Flight Passenger Data (SFPD) with each reservation and new traveler profile. Through this process, over ninety percent of our traveler profiles are TSA Secure Flight compliant.The TSA has now given a definite “effective date” for us to [...]


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 [...]


A South African Culinary Caper

From $10690 per person/twin share Save $2470 per couple 11 days/10 nights Destinations Cape Town, Franschhoek, Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve Your Itinerary Includes Assistance at Johannesburg and Cape Town Airports Private transfer from Cape Town Airport to the Cape GraceHotel 3 nights at the Cape Grace Hotel in a Table Mountain Luxury Room incl. [...]


In case you haven’t heard….

After a review of Avis Budget’s $1.33 billion bid by Dollar Thrifty’s board of directors, Dollar Thrifty turned down the offer.  Letter by Dollar/Thrifty CEO Scott Thompson click on this link. http://www.dtag.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71946&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1455976&highlight.  Even though Avis’s offer is higher than the $1.13 billion dollar offer in place with Hertz, Dollar has decided to decline Avis’s offer. The [...]


Polar Bear Tours | See the Polar Bears of Churchill

Classic Polar Bear Expedition Our “flagship” polar bear expedition. Polar bear watching in the polar bear capital of the world – Churchill, Manitoba! Trip Overview See the world’s greatest concentration of polar bears, just outside Churchill, Manitoba Experience the frozen wilderness on Hudson Bay from the comfort of warm tundra vehicles Discover the challenges and [...]


Irish Fling – 8 day coach tour – $848.00 land only!

Day 1 – Overnight to Shannon Day 2 – Bunratty Castle Banquet Day 3 – Flying Boat Museum & Dingle Peninsula Day 4 – Jaunting Car Ride & Moll’s Gap Day 5 – Cobh Heritage & Traditional Music Session Day 6 – Medieval Kilkenny & National Stud Day 7 – Explore Dublin City Day 8 [...]


Social Media Making Inroads for Managing Travel

Whether personal or job-related, corporate travel professionals are participating in more social networks than they did one year ago, and they are doing so at a higher rate, according to a Spring 2010 online survey conducted by AirPlus International. The recent exercise follows up on a year-ago survey also conducted by AirPlus, and included additional [...]


Speaking of history….

Since we are celebrating our country’s history let’s take a look at some of our own…. Christopherson Business Travel…. on the move! Sales results 2002 – $79.9 million.  Sales were over $200 million in 2009.  Voice mail implemented April 2003 – The vote is in 75% of our clients surveyed said they would like us to [...]