Christopherson announces Andavo, a modern, fully integrated travel management platform

Salt Lake City, UT – July 22, 2024 – Christopherson Business Travel, one of the country’s leading travel management companies, announces Andavo—a modern, fully integrated travel management platform for business travelers, travel managers, and travel advisors. Andavo will provide simple and elegant experiences that embody Christopherson’s legacy of human-centered design in service and technology. 

“We’ve been focused on building beautiful, elegant experiences on a modern, cloud-based travel tech platform,” says Josh Cameron, Christopherson’s chief strategy officer. “At their heart, our three core experiences are reimagined with human-centered design and fully integrated with the world-class service delivery we’re known for. This is software AND a service—you no longer have to choose between technology or service. Like many industries before ours, the renaissance of corporate travel is here, and we’re excited to be leading the way through it.”

Christopherson will be releasing Andavo in phases over the next several months to new and existing customers. The first phase will include their traveler app, which integrates with multiple booking tools and will be previewed at this year’s Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) convention in Atlanta. The Andavo traveler app will give users the tools they need for smooth business trips, such as the ability to manage itineraries, receive real-time itinerary updates including a streaming feed of aircraft telemetry and flight status data to help manage flight disruptions, easily update loyalty numbers and personal travel preferences, and coordinate trips with fellow travelers.

Along with the traveler app, Christopherson will release their Andavo developer portal. This will provide access and documentation to custom APIs for clients to conveniently access their travel-related data and for developers to build custom integrations with the Andavo platform.

“We’re thrilled to introduce our new open platform, featuring an API-first, cloud-native architecture,” says Chad Maughan, Christopherson’s chief technology officer. “This platform provides a post-PNR, modern trip management framework and paves the way for enhanced AI-powered travel experiences. The Andavo app is the first manifestation of this platform.”

Christopherson has been heavily investing in both their ground-breaking technology and their people, making key hires from the tech industry to bring Andavo to fruition, as well as reinventing the way their travel advisor teams reinforce Christopherson’s reputation of exceptional, 24/7/365 customer support.

“The industry is in an active evolutionary process between the established TMCs who have a history of great customer service and newer players who have a modern tech-first strategy,” says Mike Cameron, Christopherson’s chief executive officer. “We believe that Christopherson’s rich 70-year legacy of professional services combined with our experience in building great tech put us in the perfect position to create an industry-leading human AND digital travel management platform.”

For more information on Christopherson’s new Andavo travel management platform, visit our technology page or visit booth 4819 at GBTA for a demo.  

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About Christopherson 

Founded in 1953, Christopherson is one of the country’s leading travel management companies. With more than 70 years of experience, they provide innovative software and consultative, customized services for more than 1,000 organizations nationwide. A certified woman-owned corporation, Christopherson is headquartered in Salt Lake City and successfully operates three additional divisions: a luxury travel division (Andavo Travel), a humanitarian travel division (CV Humanitarian Travel), and a meetings and incentives division (Andavo Meetings & Incentives).  

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