Need a Personal Travel Assistant? Just "TripIt"

Have you ever wished that you had a personal travel assistant that could help you when you traveled? Someone who could keep your itinerary, notify you of the weather, gives you maps and directions and is also able to share your travel plans with friends or family. Well for those of us who do not have a personal assistant, or someone who is able to be our assistant when we travel there it TripIt. 

TripIt is a free service that allows you to do all that a personal assistant would (expect call and cancel dinner plans). TripIt is able to consolidate all your itineraries, gives you predicted weather reports for your destinations, gives you maps and directions and also allows you to share your travel plans with others. 

There are two ways to utilize all that TripIt has to offer, you can register free online or you can send TripIt your itinerary (at plans@tripit.com) from a major airline, car rental company and or hotel. After you mail them your itinerary, TripIt will set up an account for you, and well e-mail you a confirmation that will include a link so you can complete your registration. If you have more than one leg to your trip, TripIt will be able to figure out the dates and locations, and is able to merge it into one master itinerary. TripIt also allows access to your e-mail where you can see which one of your friends also use TripIt, and if your friend happens to be in the same location as you, TripIt will send you an alert notifying you that "John" is in the same location. 

Overall TripIt is a wonderful program that allows you to have your own personal travel assistant. Additionally, TripIt has social-networking capabilities where you can connect and notify your friends regarding your travel plans.