Tripit.com helps travelers stay organized and informed

Tripit.com is more than just a travel website. The site is focused around organizing travel plans, providing information about destinations, and sharing information with other fellow travelers. Geared more toward the business traveler the site allows the user to forward travel itineraries that have been booked via corporate travel offices. The site is user friendly and in many cases there is no need to even visit the site except for activating your free Tripit account. Information can be accessed from any WAP enabled phone like the Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile based phones.

TripIt turns chaos into order by making it easy for anyone to:

• Organize trip details into one master online itinerary — even if arrangements are booked at multiple travel sites
• Automatically include maps, directions and weather in their master itinerary
• Have the option to book restaurants, theatre tickets, activities and more right from within the online itinerary
• Safely access travel plans online, share them, check-in for flights, or print an itinerary

Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more since the site adds information to your itinerary from various sources like:

Google for maps and directions

NOAA for weather information

Seatguru for airline seating information

Wikipedia for city information

Eventful for local event information

Flickr for city photos

Opentable for dining reservations

Visit www.tripit.com and sign up for a free account. The site will send a confirmation email asking you to validate your email address. Once you click on the confirmation link, you will be asked to add additional information about yourself. At this point make sure you enter any email address that you may forward travel plans from. The email addresses you enter will help the site identify you when you forward your travel plans via email.

Forward any travel confirmation emails that you receive from your airline, hotel, rental car, or online travel site with the details about your travel bookings. You will forward your travel plans to plans@tripit.com via email.

Tripit works by automatically organizing all your travel confirmation emails into your master itinerary.

Access your travel itinerary via the web or login via your mobile device. From the website you will be able to review a number of key points in your travel plans.

You can drill deeper into your itinerary and review the details. The deep dive will provide you information like, seating information, weather, and recommended restaurants for dining.

You can also share your travel plans with your contacts from multiple site and links. Placing a check mark in the check box next to the contact will allow you to forward your itinerary to the selected contacts.

TripIt Mobile - m.tripit.com

TripIt Mobile is a slimmed-down interface that’s designed specifically for mobile phones. You simply point your mobile device to m.tripit.com. TripIt Mobile works with Apple iPhone, Palm Treo, RIM Blackberry, or any mobile device with a web browser.

TripIt Mobile also displays Closeness Matches and Activity Alerts so it’s easy to stay on top of what’s going on in your TripIt network.

The iPhone view is much nicer a display than the Blackberry view although both will provide the much needed information when and where you need it.

TripIt To Me - email query

TripIt To Me is a feature that lets you get your trip information from anywhere you have access to email, including laptops and mobile devices.

Just email a command to plans@tripit.com and TripIt will respond right away. For example, if you email “get trip” to plans@tripit.com, TripIt will email back your trip itinerary.

The Tripit To Me pocket card available in .PDF for here - Pocket Card, provides you additional features when requesting you trip information from Tripit.

Tripit is a great site to help the traveler organize your itineraries and provide you a deep dive of information for all of your travel plans.

This is one great site and gets 5 stars from me!