Christopherson Business Travel

Christopherson Business Travel is a corporate Travel Management Company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and founded in 1953.
Christopherson is the largest Utah travel agencyhttp://utahbusiness.com/book_of_lists/list?cat_id=135 with US$240 million in annual sales (2010) and employs approximately 225 peoplehttp://utahbusiness.com/book_of_lists/list?cat_id=135.
Christopherson owns and operates Andavo Travel, a network of independent vacation travel agents.http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_15247706
Christopherson Business Travel is the largest national travel affiliate of BCD Travel.
The State of Utah currently lists Christopherson as its Contracted Travel Agency.http://finance.utah.gov/travel/documents/TravelAgencyContract.pdfhttp://www.finance.utah.gov/travel/
Christopherson Business Travel has developed AirPortal, a tool that permits customers to build, maintain their profiles, book travel, review past and present travel, track unused ticket credits, provides contact information for support from a live agent, as well as allowing the customer to utilize other software that Christopherson Business Travel has developed to help its clients better manage their travel.
==History==
Christopherson Business Travel was originally founded by Merrill and Lucille Christopherson in 1953. In 1981, Michael A. Cameron and his wife, Camille, purchased a part-ownership position from the original founders and owners.http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/835880/Flying-high-despite-indutrys-travails.html 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.http://www.ubta.org/index.cfm?scid=1692http://www.management.travel/show-issue.php?isid=Jan-08.31&selyear=2008
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.http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_15247706
Christopherson is currently ranked #14, out of the top 39 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.http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Research/BTN-s-2011-Business-Travel-Survey--At-The-Crossroads/
==Honors==
*MountainWest Capital Network named Christopherson Business Travel one of Utah’s 100 Fastest Growing Companies in 2001http://mwcn.yourmembership.com/?2001utah100, 2002http://mwcn.yourmembership.com/?2002utah100 & 2003http://mwcn.yourmembership.com/?2003utah100.
*In 1996, the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce named Christopherson Business Travel the Small Business of the Year http://www.saltlakechamber.org/events/smallbusinessawards/history.
*Utah Business Fast 50 Award ranks Christopherson Business Travel 21st fastest growing company in Utah for 2008.
*Utah Business Fast 50 Award ranks Christopherson Business Travel 32nd fastest growing company in Utah for 2009http://www.utahbusiness.com/
*2010 and 2011 Utah Best of State winner for the category of Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism.http://www.bestofstate.org/winner2010_hospitality.html http://www.bestofstate.org/winner2011_hospitality.html
*Business Travel News ranked Christopherson Andavo Travel number 14 on the 2011 Business Travel Survey list of US Travel Management Companies http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Research/BTN-s-2011-Business-Travel-Survey--At-The-Crossroads/
*1st place for Fastest-Growing private business by Denver Business Journal 2010http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2010/07/19/focus1.html
*In 2009 and 2010, Christopherson Business Travel was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility http://www.saltlakechamber.org/events/news/detail/?ArticleID=228http://www.slchamberblog.com/chamber-recognizes-utah-employers-for-workplace-flexibility-10001439.htm
*Travel Weekly ranks Christopherson Andavo Travel at #32 on their 2011 Power List, a national ranking of corporate and leisure travel agencieshttp://travelweekly.texterity.com/travelweekly/20110627#pg41
==Locations==
Christopherson Business Travel has corporate offices in three locations:
*Salt Lake City, Utah
*Denver, Colorado
*San Francisco, California
== See also ==
* BCD Travel
==Notes==
==External links==
*Christopherson Business Travel website
*Christopherson Business Travel blog
*BCD Travel website
*Andavo Travel website
Category:Travel agencies
Category:Business services companies of the United States
Category:Companies based in Utah