Travel Weekly's 2016 Power List


27 | Christopherson Andavo Travel

Christopherson Andavo Travel
2015 sales: $552 million
Employees: 382
Previous ranking: 28

5588 S. Green St., Suite 300
Salt Lake City, UT 84123
T (801) 327-7700
Website

Executives

CEO: Mike Cameron
COO: Matt Cameron

2015 Developments

Implemented 116 new corporate clients; added 17 team members.

Introduced Travel Approval as a digital solution for approving agent-assisted reservations. It means a unification of online and full-service approvals and a greater ability to enforce travel compliance.

Introduced Hotel Attachment, a hotel compliance system that identifies itineraries with missing hotel bookings and provides travelers with options to close the gap.

Travel Approval and Hotel Attachment are both integrated into and supported by Christopherson's proprietary technology platform, AirPortal.

Company Facts

Business travel division, Christopherson Business Travel, sells management services directly to corporate accounts; also, 9.7% of sales from independent agents under hosted leisure division, Andavo Travel.

$53.5 million in sales from hosted agents.

ARC sales of $339 million.

90.1% of sales from business, 9.7% leisure, 0.2% other.

Member of BCD Travel, Virtuoso.

Privately held; 51% owned by Camille Cameron, 49% by Mike Cameron.

Looking Ahead

Added two software developers to its team to build new technologies focused on providing actionable intelligence to travel managers and eliminate the analog gaps in providing more digital services to travelers.

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