Yahoo! Inc. has come up with the general availability of Trip Planner (http://travel.yahoo.com/trip), an online travel research resource within Yahoo! Travel. Trip Planner includes a range of features that allow travelers to document their personal travel

Published: 10 Jul 2006

Yahoo! Inc. has come up with the general availability of Trip Planner (http://travel.yahoo.com/trip), an online travel research resource within Yahoo! Travel. Trip Planner includes a range of features that allow travelers to document their personal travel

The new offering helps users plan their trip, create their own customised printable travel guide, as well as share their travel experiences with friends, family, and if desired, other Yahoo! Travel users.

The shared Trip Plans have also been organised by Yahoo! Travel to create a growing interactive archive of personal travel experiences that can be used by others to plan their trips.

Jasper Malcolmson, director of Yahoo! Travel said, “Just as other Yahoo! social search products like Flickr, Yahoo! Answers, del.icio.us, and MyWeb have created a platform for sharing information between users, Trip Planner is about offering a way for travelers to benefit from sharing their travel experiences.”

Trip Planner features provide users the ability to create photograph-rich travel journals, to plot their trip on an interactive map, as well as include notes, ratings and reviews regarding the destinations, hotels and points of interest they have visited. Together, these features allow travelers to create a comprehensive record of their travel experience that can be saved for personal archives or shared with others.

Additionally, with more than 20,000 publicly viewable Trip Plans from around the world organised on an interactive map, Yahoo! Travel allows other users to research travel by learning from the trips of fellow travelers.

New product features include: Trip Journals - a new tool for travelers to use post-trip to share their travel experiences and for people to use while researching travel experiences; Simple search function that assists other users in finding the most useful journal entries to help plan their travel; Interactive Map to Search for Trip Plans etc.
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Trip Planner is integrated with several Yahoo! offerings across the network, including: Yahoo! Search integration (Users can search for Trip Plans by entering the name of a destination and the word “trips” into the Yahoo! Search bar; Yahoo! Travel Guides and Yahoo! FareChase. Other features include: Web clipping and tagging functionality; Recommendation engine from Yahoo! Travel Guides; Variety of printing options for take-along travel guides; Community feedback and comment system; Collaborative editing capabilities.