I am going to be doing a work related trip later this fall. Our organization rarely even deals with travel, so we don't have many good policies in place. I am not issued a company credit card.

I will be staying for several nights in a hotel. I can book a group rate for the event I am attending, but the hotel does not charge the credit card until I actually arrive. They will need to see the credit card to place the charge.

My organization thinks the easiest thing to do would be for me to charge the stay on my own card and they will pay me back. I am quite uncomfortable with that to begin with, and don't really have a spare $1000 on my credit card to do that anyways. How does your company handle this? Is there an easier way?