Founder & CEO Christy Prescott started Collegiate Travel Planners (CTP) in 1991 as a one-location San Antonio venture with a focus on higher education.

More than three decades later and still under Christy’s leadership, CTP is now the #1 higher education travel service provider in the United States and provides travel management services to over 185 universities and colleges nationwide.

We attribute our steady growth to our knowledge that a higher education travel program doesn’t work like a typical corporate program – it is vastly different in structure, culture, and values. Today, CTP has over 33 years of experience consulting, coordinating, and fulfilling higher education and university travel (both domestic and international).

CTP is part of the CTM Group of global travel businesses. When you work with us, you’ll receive the high-touch service you’d expect from our university-focused service team, backed by the resources and scale of the CTM Group, a global travel leader.

In 2024, CTP was awarded E&I Cooperative Services Partner of the Year Award. This award recognizes CTP’s success in achieving strong business growth through customer service, quality product service, responsiveness and assistance in providing expertise and solutions to procurement professionals within the membership realm of E&I.