Christopherson Business Travel is a corporate Travel Management Company headquartered in
Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Utah, most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the county seat, seat of Salt Lake County, Utah, Sal ...
and founded in 1953.
Christopherson is the largest travel agency in Utah,
and the largest national travel affiliate of BCD Travel, with
US$
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682 million in annual sales (2018) and more than 480 employees.
Christopherson owns and operates Andavo Travel, a network of independent vacation travel agents
and All Seasons Sports Travel, which specializes in fan-based travel planning and packages. They also acquired CV Travel, a travel agency focused on humanitarian and faith-based travel.
The State of Utah currently lists Christopherson as its Contracted Travel Agency.
Christopherson Business Travel developed AirPortal, an integrated travel technology platform that houses the company's proprietary technology, user dashboards, benchmarking and reporting tools, online booking tools, and mobile applications.
In 2012, Christopherson Business Travel developed and released AirPortal 360, an intelligent dashboard for travel managers, which grants access to Christopherson's collection of corporate travel management software. The technology was designed to assist in the reduction of corporate travel spend, facilitate duty of care responsibilities, keep track of unused tickets, access traveler profiles, and ensure policy compliance. In conjunction with their AirPortal 360 software release, Christopherson also released, My Travel, a similarly customized dashboard with specific tools for individual business travelers. In 2013, the company developed and released AirPortal 360 Mobile, the first app created for travel managers to manage their travel programs from mobile devices.
History
Christopherson Business Travel was founded by Merrill and Lucille Christopherson in 1953. Lucille's brother, John L. Weenig was brought in as manager and part owner shortly thereafter. Under his leadership and management the agency grew to have three locations in Utah. Weenig retired about 1980. In 1981, Michael A. Cameron and his wife, Camille, purchased a part-ownership position from the original founders and owners. By March 1990 the Cameron's had purchased 100 percent of the company.
In January 2008, the company merged with Andavo Travel, creating one of the top 20 U.S. travel management companies.
Effective March 2010, Michael A. Cameron and his wife Camille purchased the business and vacation travel divisions of Andavo Travel. The business travel division of the combined company is now branded and marketed nationally as Christopherson Business Travel. The vacation travel and independent contractor division is branded under Andavo Travel.
At the end of 2013, Christopherson acquired Alabama-based All Seasons Travel. All Seasons' business travel division was absorbed into Christopherson Business Travel, the leisure division was absorbed into Andavo Travel, and a new division, All Seasons Sports Travel, was created to cater to the fan-based travel which All Seasons Travel specialized in. All employee positions were retained and Mike Cameron continued as CEO.
In 2016, Christopherson acquired CV Humanitarian Travel, a division focused on providing travel services for non-profit and faith-based trips.
Christopherson is currently ranked #12 out of the top travel management companies in the United States by ''Business Travel News'', a top publication of the corporate travel industry. BTN's annual Business Travel Survey measures the performance of suppliers in all corporate travel segments.
As of March 2020, Christopherson has closed its physical offices in Birmingham, San Francisco and Denver and has laid off over 100 employees as a result of the COVID-19 Virus.
Locations
Christopherson Business Travel has corporate offices in five locations:
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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Denver, Colorado
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Oakland, California
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Birmingham, Alabama
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Montgomery, Alabama
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Honors
*Business Travel News ranked Christopherson Business Travel #11 on their 2014 Business Travel Management Companies
*Travel Weekly ranked Christopherson Business Travel #26 on their 2017 Power List, a national ranking of corporate and leisure travel agencies. Christopherson also ranked on the list in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.
*Utah Business Magazine Fast 50 award winner in 2019.,
2018,
2017, 2016, 2015,
*Christopherson was named #1 Women-Owned Company in Colorado by Colorado Biz Magazine in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015.
*Christopherson CEO, Mike Cameron, was named in 2012 CEO of the Year by Utah Business Magazine
*Utah's Best of State winner in 2010, 2011, 2012 under the Hospitality, Travel and Tourism category.
*1st place for Fastest-Growing private business by Denver Business Journal 2010
*Christopherson is ranked #1 Travel Agency in Utah by Utah Business Magazine
*Christopherson Business Travel was given the When Work Works Award (former the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility) 2009-2013 and again in 2016
See also
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BCD Travel
BCD Group (formerly BCD Holdings N.V.) is a privately owned Dutch company and consists of BCD Travel (global corporate travel management and its subsidiaries ''BCD Meetings & Events'', global meetings and events agency, and ''Advito'', global b ...
References
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External links
Christopherson Business Travel websiteChristopherson Business Travel blogBCD Travel websiteAndavo Travel websiteCV Humanitarian Travel website
Travel and holiday companies of the United States
Business services companies of the United States
Business services companies established in 1953
Companies based in Utah
1953 establishments in Utah
Business travel