Connecting business travelers on the road
Published: 05 Feb 2008
TripIt has launched a new business travel service (http://business.tripit.com) that helps business travelers, road warriors and travel arrangers simplify and organise their business trips.
TripIt is an online travel assistant that seamlessly organises trips including flight, hotel, rental car, train, restaurant reservations, and activities -- even when booked through different online services and vendors. Business travelers simply forward their individual travel confirmation emails to plans@TripIt.com and TripIt automatically builds a master online itinerary that combines all their bookings.
TripIt supports all the major online travel and business travel sites including Expedia Corporate, Orbitz for Business and Travelocity Business. TripIt also supports leading traditional travel agencies, American Express, BCD and Carlson Wagonlit, as well as the top online corporate booking tools Cliqbook, GetThere and Travelport. TripIt can process confirmation emails that are formatted as HTML, plain text, PDF files, or include embedded links to itinerary sites such as Sabre VirtuallyThere.
According to the company, itineraries are instantly synced with business calendars, which saves time from having to manually enter and update trip details. Business travelers can also easily share itineraries with colleagues, assistants, and family to view and collaborate around each other's trip calendars. New "Closeness" alerts notify travelers whenever their travel plans overlap with fellow travelers while on the road or when their colleagues are near their hometown.
The company stated: "The much-needed service is also ideal for travel arrangers and office managers who are responsible for managing travel plans for business travelers. It saves considerable time by automatically providing neatly formatted master itineraries which alleviates the need to copy and paste information into a separate document. TripIt also makes it easy for assistants to access travelers' latest itineraries and customise them with important information. Plus, they can automatically see a trip calendar with the location of all their associates in one place."
"Because TripIt supports many popular supplier travel sites and business services, employees at large corporations can continue to follow corporate travel policies and use their company's preferred travel suppliers. They can also use TripIt to automatically organize all their travel plans in one place to improve their productivity and business travel experience."
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Pitkin said on 5 Feb 08:
TripIt seems look a good idea. I'll give it a try -- just to see if they really can handle the wide variety of formats from competing companies. If this will simplify my life, TripIt has my business.
Bruce (not verified) said on 5 Feb 08:
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