Travel search site Hipmunk has launched the ability for users to integrate their Google Calendar events and meetings into both flight and hotel search results.

Hipmunk will now show users any meetings that conflict with a flight search result, and event locations plotted on the map alongside hotels. This allows users to find flights that fit into their unique schedules and hotels with the best location relative to a user’s meetings.

In order to incorporate individual calendars, users need to create an account with Hipmunk and enable calendar sharing through Google. Creating a Hipmunk account also lets users save contact information and airline preferences. Hipmunk supports instant log-in with Google or Facebook Connect.

“Like a lot of us today, you probably have multiple Google Calendars: one for personal engagements, one for business, and one for your alter ego. When searching for either flights or hotels on Hipmunk, you can hide and show specific calendars, or even specific events on your calendar. Just click the “Calendar” button in the upper-right of the window,” explained the company on its blog.

The new calendar features will also be ideal for those managing multiple family or colleague calendars and travel plans. A user can schedule travel that fits within multiple schedules by hiding and showing specific calendars.

“The Internet has made thousands of things easier—everything from searching for travel to keeping your calendar—but, no site has made it easy to do both at the same time,” said Adam Goldstein Hipmunk CEO.

“Instead of toggling between calendars and flight results, we’ve made finding flights that fit in your schedule, and finding the hotel closest to your meetings, a seamless process.”

Flight Search Integration

When users run a flight search, they will see all their calendar events on the Hipmunk flight timeline as a series of vertical stripes. Each event’s horizontal position reflects what time of day it starts, and its width shows how long it lasts. If a calendar stripe coincides with a flight bar, users know they will have to reschedule the event if they want to take that flight.

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Hotel Search Integration

For hotels search, Hipmunk will display all the calendar events on your trip.

Each pin is numbered by how early it occurs on your trip (1 for the first event on your calendar, 2 for the second, etc.). Just by looking, you can see where your travels will take you. And you can easily see which hotels are nearest to which events.

The list on the right side of the map shows you all your events in order. If you’re curious where an event is, just mouse over it, and its pin will catch your eye on the map.

“Finally, if you want to find hotels closest to one of your events—say, your first or last event of the day—click to sort by distance. When you click the text field, you can select one of your events, and all of the hotels will instantly re-sort by proximity to your event,” explained the company.

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