NYU Traveler Provides You with Travel Alerts, Local Info, and Group Trips
Planning a trip home or a vacation abroad? Explore NYU Traveler, an online portal where you can access exclusive flight and hotel deals, book travel arrangements such as cars or trains, and use valuable tools designed to cater to your needs abroad.
NYU Traveler is committed to helping NYU community members safely and effectively navigate the world. As part of this commitment, they’ve partnered up with iJet, a traveler safety service that provides up-to-the-minute information about global destinations. When you register your trip, you will receive a report in the days leading up to your departure highlighting essential information such as weather forecasts, currency conversion, public transportation best practices, cultural customs and norms, and potential safety concerns at your destination.
Once you arrived, you will continue to receive proactive emails alerting you to anything that could put you or your plans at risk. In the unlikely event of an emergency, such as local unrest or a natural disaster, the service alerts NYU Public Safety, which will seek to establish direct contact and provide support as you negotiate a return to safety.
A benefit of booking a trip through NYU Traveler includes accessing discounted flight and hotel deals through NYU’s network of preferred airlines and hotels. NYU’s negotiated rates are discounted between 2-7% for flights on Delta, United, or Etihad Airlines, up to 15% for hotel bookings in New York, and as much as 65% for select global hotels. You can access these discounts and more by booking your hotel and flight through Egencia, NYU Traveler’s preferred travel agency and a subsidiary of Expedia. Anyone with an NYU NetID is eligible to use the service for themselves and for a traveler not affiliated with NYU such as a spouse, a partner, or a guest speaker.
If you book your flight or hotel through Egencia, your trip will automatically be registered with NYU Traveler and you’ll be able to receive iJet’s pre-departure report and day-by-day updates. If you decide to book through another travel agency, you’re still eligible to receive these reports and can do so by forwarding your confirmation email to mytrip@nyu.edu or by manually submitting your itinerary online.
NYU students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to register any University-related travel with NYU Traveler. This includes academic conferences, research trips, and travel to global sites. NYU Traveler is particularly valuable for students studying away in semesters to come, as they can register their trips to and from NYU’s global locations and also weekend travel over the course of the semester, whether related to school or not. Study away students can also take advantage of NYU Traveler’s preferred relationships with world-class travel management companies, WorldStrides and Destination Partners to arrange group trips. Partnerships like these and services like NYU Traveler are what truly cement NYU’s global network status.