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UTravel: How to Assign an Expense Delegate in your Profile

If you are an approver, you can use the Travel Concur system to select ONE PERSON to approve travel on your behalf. Follow these steps to delegate your approval authority: Go to your profile settings Click “Expense Delegates” Click “Add” … Continue reading

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Simplified UTravel Request: “How will you Book?” Question

Effective November 1st, Request will present the user with only two options to this question: How will you reserve air, car and/or hotel? Book in Concur Travel: Use online booking tool/Need Book link Book outside Concur Travel: Book with CBT … Continue reading

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Updating Profiles in UTravel

Please take a moment to make sure that both you and your travelers have updated and verified UTravel profile information. The profile is what the Concur system and the Christopherson Business Travel Advisors use to book reservations for airfare, cars, … Continue reading

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So you’ve been trained on UTravel (Concur) – Now what?

So you’ve been trained on UTravel (Concur) – Now what? You should reach out to Nyia Hanseen to make sure that all your travelers have been flagged to indicate that they are UTravel users.  We recommend that all travelers be … Continue reading

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New: Airline Exchange Fees

Effective March 1, 2019, the University Onsite Travel Agents will begin to charge university departments a $30 fee for airline exchanges. This new fee will better conform with industry practices and will more appropriately charge departments for the work done … Continue reading

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Airport Parking Option: U Gets Discount at The Parking Spot

Christopherson Business Travel has been a longtime partner with the University of Utah, and they have recently entered into a partnership with The Parking Spot – an off-airport parking company that provides parking, transportation, and emergency services. The Parking Spot … Continue reading

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International Travel MUST be Registered 3 Weeks in Advance

Attention: International Travelers and Departments – Beginning April 2, 2018, the Travel & Reimbursement Services Department will require VP signatures for any reimbursement requests where the trip was not registered 3 weeks in advance of departure. We are taking this … Continue reading

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Speed Travel Payments with Accurate Submissions

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.  Please make sure to follow the guidelines below in order to help speed up the … 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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