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Top Travel Apps
Savvy travelers are no longer satisfied merely finding cheap travel deals such as cheap airplane tickets, cheap vacation packages, discount travel packages, and cheap auto rentals. Now they are using travel apps to help keep track of their daily itineraries and much more.
Apps such as “TripIt” list all of a traveler’s information in order on a single page so long as confirmations of emails from airlines, hotel and car rental companies are forwarded to its website.
People are increasingly using and delighting in travel apps because they can travel with less paper and use travel websites and apps to act as personal assistants. These apps help travelers stay on course when they are in an unknown city or country, whether for business or pleasure.
The following of some of today’s best travel apps:
• TripIt organizes travel plans by forwarding all confirmations to its site or by giving TripIt permission to scan a specific Gmail account for relevant emails. Tripit creates a digital itinerary that can be accessed via smartphones. This app is not limited to just providing flight and hotel information. ...
... It will also list such plans as OpenTable restaurant reservations, allowing multiple trips to be added.
• Evernote is a free app that provides the user with great flexibility including the ability to take notes and photos, record voice reminders and create to do lists. Everything can be organized into folders for easy searches. Content can be synced with computers and digital devices and notes can be shared with friends through Facebook and Twitter. This app provides the means to keep track of plane tickets, passports, receipts, and other travel documents.
• Knapsack is a $30 app that can be used to plan your trip and itinerary and then share memories once you have returned. Users can create packing and shopping lists before departure. Once at your destination there is a map feature that helps locate cities, airports, hotels, and attractions. Its itinerary planner empowers users to build their own itineraries indicating daily activities.
• WorldMate is a free app that allows users to forward confirmation emails from airlines, hotels, rental car companies and the like to its website. Those emails are used to automatically build an itinerary. Meetings from digital calendars can be added using WorldMate’s Calendar sync for an annual $10 Gold subscription. Otherwise meeting details can be added directly on the website.
Users can view their trips on a map that indicate where meetings are and how close they are to each others as well as the airport or hotel. Changes to itineraries are automatically updated on smartphones and can be shared with others.
• mTrip makes travel guides available for most of the major cities around the world. Users pay $5.99 per city and are then provided a list of restaurants, museums, shops, and attractions, with pictures, hours of operation, and reviews. Offline maps are provided when the user is unable to access the Internet.
• Google Calendar is a free app that automatically syncs with digital devices and can easily be accessed from any browser on any device with an Internet connection. Google Calendar sends reminders to digital devices.
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