Travel
Tools and Resources
Contact Us
Ohio State Travel Office
8 am-5 pm (Mon-Fri)
614-292-9290
travel@osu.edu
Ohio State Travel Office
8 am-5 pm (Mon-Fri)
614-292-9290
travel@osu.edu
Training and Job Aids
Introduction to Business Travel at OSU: This 10-minute session is recommended for OSU employees that travel or employees that arrange travel for others. New employees or those with busy schedules will benefit from a brief, high level introduction to OSU Business Travel, with policy highlights, useful resources and directions on where to get help.
Business Travel Life Cycle Curriculum: This self-guided curriculum is for employees that travel for business on behalf of OSU or employees that routinely arrange and process business travel on behalf of others. The modules are broken into the 4 steps of the travel life cycle. Learners can add all the modules to their transcript in one curriculum or complete individually.
Travel 1: Planning Business Travel | Travel 3: Booking & Arranging Business Travel |
Travel 2: Requesting Business Travel Authorization | Travel 4: Expensing Business Travel |
Workday Additional Workday Job Aids are available at the Administrative Resource Center.
Concur Booking Tool
Completing Concur Profile | Booking Airfare for Another Employee |
Assigning Travel Assistant | Booking Airfare for a Guest |
Booking Airfare for Yourself | Changing or Canceling Airfare |
General
Cash Advance Process | Mileage Best Practice Graphic Guide |
Repayment Process for Personal Expense Charged to University Payment Tools (PCard) | Running Historical eTravel data in Tableau |
Business Travel Discounts
Airfare Discounts
University business travelers can realize negotiated discounts on published airfare through the carriers listed below when tickets are issued directly with the university’s contracted travel agencies.
Airport Parking - visit links below for rates, reservations and periodic discounts for parking at the Port Columbus International Airport:
Hotel/Accommodations
Rental Car - the university’s contracted suppliers for vehicle rental services include: National Car Rental, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Hertz Car Rental.
To view rates, insurance details or make a business reservation, go to secured login: Rental Car Discounts.
Personal discounts for leisure travel may be found at Ohio State Human Resources (Buckeye Nation Rewards) and are not monitored by the Ohio State Travel Office.
Ground Transportation (Ride Services)
Travel Resources