I am a regular traveller and usually book flights from one of three services.

Keeping track of my travel plans usually means copying and pasting parts of confirmation emails from travel sites and airlines into events on Google Calendar. It works fine but it is a touch cumbersome.

I read about tripit.com on techcrunch and so far, it looks like the perfect site for me. The idea behind it is simple, but its execution of the idea is just as good.

When you book a flight, hotel, car hire etc online, you just forward your email from that company to the tripit.com address (you have to register your email address in your tripit account first) and an itinerary is automatically created for you.

The smart thing is that travel items are grouped intelligently so that the flight you hotel you booked in Zurich between two flights in and out of the same city are threated as part of the same trip, so moving items around between itineraries is minimal.Also, you can mix your travel suppliers so you can get the flights you booked on ba.com grouped with the hotel you booked from Expedia.

The list of sites and travel companies supported is already pretty large. Here is the list of sites supported by tripit.

My only gripe so far is that each day of your trip is displayed on the itinerary, even if you have nothing booked against those days. I don’t need that, to be honest.

Other than that, my itineraries have gone thorugh perfectly. It seems the ideal service for me and one I hope will go from strength to strength.

Tripit.com

[tags]itinerary, offline, travel, trip, tripit[/tags]