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Latest Travel Announcements News
Travel Server Outage: Please Plan Ahead – Friday June 9
We are upgrading the Travel System server beginning Friday, June 9 at 12:00 noon, through Sunday, June 11. Please plan ahead for this outage by taking care of your travel needs prior to the upgrade, the following functions are among those that … Continue reading
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Help Speed Travel Reimbursements – Requirements
Travel & Reimbursement Services is currently experiencing a high volume of travel reimbursement requests, and we are working diligently to process them as quickly as possible. This post contains guidelines that will help to speed overall processing time. If we receive an … Continue reading
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U of U Global Engagement Travel Insurance
The University of Utah has partnered with Cultural Insurance Services International (CISI) to provide comprehensive coverage for foreign trips. Office for Global Engagement highly encourages the coverage for travelers traveling to foreign countries. The Office for Global Engagement provides … Continue reading
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Banned from Flights: Samsung Galaxy Note 7
Many of you may have heard of this new rule on the news, or have been notified on your Christopherson itinerary; the Galaxy Note 7 by Samsung is currently banned from airline flights. If passengers attempt to travel by air … Continue reading
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Register Trip now has option for Group Travel
Effective July 1, 2016, “Group Travel” is a new category of university trips. If your department is sending 10 or more people on the same identical itinerary, then it is considered an instance of “Group Travel.” These instances, which are … Continue reading
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Tips for Fast Travel Reimbursements
Travel volume increases during the beginning of Summer Semester and Fiscal Year End. We want to provide a speedy reimbursement process to our campus users, and suggest the following: GFA signatures must be current – make sure the approval signatures can be verified … Continue reading
Effective July 2016 – New “Group” Travel Fees
As the University of Utah has grown in the past several years, we are more often engaged in Group Travel – which means ten or more persons traveling on the same itinerary. Many departments are hosting Group Trips for various … Continue reading
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Complementary Emerald Club Membership Available through March 4, 2016
National Car Rental and Enterprise Rent-A-Car are preferred car rental providers for University of Utah Travel, and they are currently offering University travelers Executive status in their Emerald Club – as long as they enroll by March 4, 2016. The … Continue reading
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Standard Mileage Rate Changes for 2016
Beginning January 1, 2016, the Standard Mileage Rates will be as follows: 54 cents per mile for business miles driven, down from 57.5 cents for 2015 19 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes, down from 23 cents for … Continue reading
Green Travel Fund Donation – Clarification
Last week, we implemented an exciting new project called the Green Travel Fund – which is a collaborative effort between the Travel Office, Facilities Management, and the Sustainability Office to provide a convenient method for travelers to offset the impact … Continue reading
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