The Magic of TripIt

I was recently introduced to TripIt by Tara Hunt at the recent "Thinking Digital" conference in Newcastle - who described at the service as just "magic".

In essence it creates your itinery from your travel confirmations which you email to plans@tripit.com and it does the rest and much much more. To put this into context, the last time I was overwhelmed like this was when I first installed an early beta of Skype (when it was less than 3Mb) - it just worked. No more 3 page printouts of flight confirmations - just the key information that you need at check-in.

But it does so much more, it provides you with links for online check-in, weather forecasts for your destinations, directions between airports and hotels - and this is the free version. I cannot do the service enough justice but if you do any travelling I would thoroughly recommend it.