Online travel organization startup (and TechCrunch 40 finalist) TripIt will today release some new features that aim to further simplify booking travel online.
TripIt is a travel organizer that helps do-it-yourself travelers manage their travel plans. Travelers manage their travel itinerary with TripIt by forwarding their purchase confirmation emails to the service. TripIt automatically creates master itineraries with travel plans and other critical information like weather, maps and driving directions, and destination information. You can print or access your itinerary from anywhere including online, in print and on web-enabled mobile devices.
TripIt now syncs itineraries with any personal calendar that supports iCal, including Google Calendar, Outlook 2007, Plaxo, and others. What this means is that TripIt users no longer need to manually update their calenders with trip information; TripIt now does it all, adding details such as flights, hotels, rental cars, restaurant reservations to supported apps.
Other new features going live today include support for temperatures in Celsius or Fahrenheit and other international features, with international date support coming soon. TripIt also now supports travel confirmation emails from Aer Lingus, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Tiger Airways, Virgin Blue and Avis Europe, as well as rail providers Amtrak, Eurostar, GNER, UK Trainline and VIA Rail.
See our previous review on how TripIt works here.
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For real? This sounds useful, maybe for lazy people. I don’t think trips are that hard to figure out.
fahrenheit and celsius, now that is a feature worth highlighting a TC post !
fahrenheit and celcius - lewl.
I think Triple A (AAA) should acquire this service.
Don’t most booking sites already have similar features?
I think this is a highly useful site/app. I can forward on an email confirmation of a 7 city airline ticket and TripIt parses it all correctly, and creates a calendar. I sync my calendar with TripIt and all my travel info is ready to go, from one source, all automatically. Trips might not be hard to figure out if you do them once a month and you always go to the same place and stay at the same hotel and rent the same car. If you do them regularly and if they’re complicated, this is a great way to go.
Why go through all this when you can just buy your own private jet, build houses all over the world and let your assistants take care of details?
“TripIt also now supports travel confirmation emails from Aer Lingus, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Tiger Airways, Virgin Blue and Avis Europe, as well as rail providers Amtrak, Eurostar, GNER, UK Trainline and VIA Rail.”
VIA Rail totally sucks.
With such a powerful technology to digest all those complex confirmation emails, you would expect a lot more value from TripIt. It is handy to have all your itinerary details in a single place, but if they know that I’ll be staying at a certain hotel for 3 nights and haven’t made reservations for dinner, a quick email with the top 3 restaurants in the area would save a few from staying in. Or make the phone number of the local taxi company part of my itinerary so I don’t struggle to move around in an unknown city. The Travel Guide tab seems aimed at this kind of service but it remains largely a dump for useless information.
And yes, I’ll admit that my company is able to deliver such type of content for the Travel Guide, but I believe many people will agree that this is how TripIt can become useful while you’re away and not only during the trip planning process.
is it me or is there no title to this post?
Darren the formatting keeps changing everytime I refresh the page. Someone is editing.
there is a huge opportunity in this space because the pain for middle management, sales organizations, and smbs is very real.
i would invest like a shot if i found something that really worked.
but the really valuable piece is not integration (though that’s a start), it’s automation and optimization.
haha duncan you forgot the title, but hey thanks for the post this may be a great bookmark for me.
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Holiday in Pittsburgh!
Funniest thing ever on this site.
Hmmm think you forgot a title there
woops, Charles beat me to it there…
All the hotels in Buffalo were booked, you see.
I can see this being useful for business professionals with lots of stops on their itinerary, but not as useful for leisure travelers.
HAHAHAHA!! I added this feature to my Ning account in less than 5 minutes, now my whole network is synced to one calendar, why dont you write about me!!??
go to your google calendar and copy the code and paste it on any site!!
i dont get whats so amazing? so they copied and pasted the google calendar into their site, and?
Is it possible for you guys to report on a website that isn’t obvious and took more then a week to build?
@14, 16: Actually, Pittsburgh totally rules. You’re just exposing your laughably obvious ignorance with your post.
Fatheads, Southside.
A company has been doing this for years and I think they work with a lot of the large travel and reservation booking services already - Infotriever.com. And they sync up with a lot of calendar systems.
Great to see the energy here as always!
@5, 18 & 21, the unique thing we are doing at TripIt with this release is to eliminate another step from the tedious process of managing your travel information. Now, by simply emailing your purchase confirmation to plans [at] tripit.com, your travel details automatically show up in your calendar. We’ve built a pipe for travel info from your Inbox to your Calendar. No more cut & paste. This may be “obvious”, but there isn’t anyone doing this today.
@9 & 12, I really like your ideas. The point of today’s announcement isn’t to say “we’re done”. Calendar synch has been one of the most requested features and we’re just trying to keep people up to speed with our progress. As you can imagine, you will be seeing a lot more from us as we continue to evolve the service.
We love feedback, so please keep it coming!
Gregg Brockway
president & co-founder
TripIt, Inc.
“organize your travel”
Sorry about the title, there was one there when I preposted it prior to going to bed, I blame Matt Mullenweg and WP for it all
great website. i will have better trip for later
duncan, programmer of fsbo Nebraska
i would invest like a shot if i found something that really worked.
TripIt.com
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