A Peek “Behind the Curtain” at the Coolest Mobile Travel Apps
Mobile computing is increasingly becoming an inexorable part of our every day lives. And travel is no different. As business and leisure travelers are trading schlepping their laptops for their Blackberries, iPhones or Droids in droves, a new wave of mobile travel apps are flooding the marketplace. Here’s a quick peep at 5 travel apps [...]
Shall I drive my own car… or rent one?
Owners, financial guru’s and sourcing managers, mileage reimbursement is a huge expense when employees drive their own cars for work purposes. Did you know that based on a reimbursement rate of $0.50 cents anything over 120 miles driven by using a personal car is more expensive than renting one? Companies both large and small that require their [...]
My 1st experience with the advanced imaging technology at airport security
The last time I traveled in early September, the new full-body scanners were not in the Salt Lake City International Airport (at least not to my knowledge). When I encountered them a few days ago at TSA security check point in Terminal Two, I was pleasantly surprised. My curiosity being peaked, I checked out what [...]
TruValue
True value doesn’t come in just hardware. True value often comes in everyday things that we use to make our lives less complicated and cumbersome. I’ve noticed that true value is often over looked and those things of most value are often ignored, neglected, or we have not been informed of the value. This week [...]
Considerations when making changes to your travel policies for 2010
4Q09 is here and budgets will soon be reviewed again for 2010. If you are like most companies, you have cut your travel budget considerably this year and intend to stay as lean and mean as possible with most forecasts indicating increased airfares of 1% to 6%; hotels decreasing more; and rental cars increasing around [...]
Did you know….
That on September 9th the U.S. Senate passed S. 1023, the “Travel Promotion Act,” 79 to 19. The legislation creates a public-private partnership to promote the United States as a premier travel destination and better explain U.S. security policies. Once passed by the House of Representatives and enacted into law, the program is estimated to [...]
Best Value vs. Cheapest
As an agent, I frequently hear the phrase “I want the cheapest” from customers. Over the years I have learned that what most people mean when they say this isn’t that they want the cheapest, they want the best value. Sometimes a customer will insist that price is the only factor driving their decision as [...]
Introducing HotelPrepayLogicTM
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 [...]
How Christopherson Finds Additional Savings on Hotel and Car Reservations for Our Clients
In today’s economy, finding addition savings with business travel is upper most on CFO’s, travel managers, and business travelers’ minds. One way Christopherson accomplishes added savings for our clients is through some of our proprietary technologies, in particular, Hotel Re-Check® and Car Re-Check®. Similar to the airline industry, hotels and car rental companies are raising [...]
TSA initiates Secure Flight program
The U.S Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has initiated a new program to require the airlines to provide additional information for passengers regarding more detailed identification. The program is called Secure Flight and when fully implemented will require airlines to provide information such as passenger gender , birth date and full name. For now, travelers may [...]