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Search vacation spots by mood, where you’d like to go, or the length of your vacation. Tailored to your interests: are you looking for a culinary adventure, interested in visiting historical sites or just relaxing on the beach ? Organize your travel photos into albums with a touch of a finger, then create movies or print a scrapbook. Walking maps included so you won’t get lost and they are even accessible offline! This community of more than 500,000 travelers and locals offers invaluable advice, photos and travel tips. Available in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and Italian. It's a mobile must-have for busy travel planners. Choose a Destination
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A Meeting Planner’s
Guide to Travel Apps
As a meeting planner, I travel often for work and whenever I am able to for fun. I find that like most people, I enjoy travelling most when I'm relaxed, and I'm relaxed when I know everything is in under control. I like to pre-book hotel rooms, have a loose itinerary for most days when I'm on vacation, and know how I'll be getting from point A to point B before I leave home.
Mobile apps help me to achieve all of these goals and make planning even easier with portability, any information I could possibly need at my fingertips, and real time updates . All the apps I suggest are available for free for iphone and most for android.
Why use a travel app?
Search vacation spots by mood, where you’d like to go, or the length of your vacation.
Tailored to your interests: are you looking for a culinary adventure, interested in visiting historical sites or just relaxing on the beach ?
Organize your travel photos into albums with a touch of a finger, then create movies or print a scrapbook.
Walking maps included so you won’t get lost and they are even accessible offline!
This community of more than 500,000 travelers and locals offers invaluable advice, photos and travel tips.
Available in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and Italian. It's a mobile must-have for busy travel planners.
Choose a Destination
Discover your next adventure with the best places in the world to eat, stay and play.
Ideas for family friendly activities, travelers who enjoy the outdoors, people who like to shop or sightsee, or those who organize their travel around work commitments.
Save what interests you to an in app itinerary, and when you pull them up while traveling, you can search for nearby points of interest, restaurants, or hotels, making this app really helpful when plans change.
Personalize your account with Tribes to find places that people like yourself recommend.
Vacancies are searchable by popularity, ratings and price per night.
Contribute to the wider community by reviewing the places that you enjoy and recommend.
Travel GuidesGogobot
Before you go, take the time to search for deals on flights, hotels, car rentals—whatever you’ll need.
Nearly every search and booking service I've seen comes with an app for Android, iPhones, and iPads, which is helpful when your plans change and you need to book a new hotel room. Utilize airline apps (Southwest Airlines, for example) to check in online from anywhere you can get cell service and never get in C group again!
Before you go
Flights and Hotels
Most extensive travel search engine. The mobile app has exclusive discounts
on last-minute hotel reservations. Sortable reviews by "recent,"
"favorable," and "critical" to see if people tend to have consistent feedback or whether the unsatisfied guests had too-high expectations.
New Scratchpad component makes it easier to search across devices ; start your search on your laptop during your lunch break, continue it on the Expedia app on your smartphone while waiting at the dentist’s office, and then review options with your travel partner on your tablet later that night.
Kayak.com is my favorite site for finding the best deals on flights.
You can pre-pay for flights, hotel reservations, and even car rentals.
Includes other discount providers in its searches, like Orbitz and Priceline for example, to truly make sure you find the best deal.
Lists both flight info and customer support numbers in the event you need to speak to a real person.
Remembers past trips so that you can rebook hotels that you enjoyed.
Like having your own personal travel agent.
KayakExpedia
Mobile Maps
The best directional map available, in my opinon, with real time updates so that you can avoid traffic back ups and construction. No GPS system is perfect, but I have used googlemaps in cities all over the US for work and play and it is my secret weapon for smooth and efficient travel!
Googlemaps
TripIt Connects all your email accounts to
compile confirmation numbers for flights, hotels, rental car reservations, and even restaurant reservations easily and automatically.
You can plan trips privately or as part of a group.
You can scan and save receipts for your records or for reimbursement purposes when traveling on business.
Automatically generates a sharable itinerary if requested.
Automatic notification of flight delays, cancellations or gate changes.
Syncs to your mobile or desktop calendar.
You’ve Gotta Eat! Many of the apps I have already shared have a
food and restaurant guide within them. But most can’t compete with the most popular restaurant rating app out there—yelp.
Has a great search function, allowing you to search by location, budget, food type and rating.
Real people review and rate the food, share pictures and tips on what to order.
Includes maps for easy travel Links to online menus Engage with others by adding your own
recommendations, adding photos, and connecting with friends and family.
Yelp
Bon Voyage!
I hope I have shown you how mobile apps can add to the entire experience of travel; from dreaming, during planning, and then by enjoying your adventure. If you would like a list of these apps, shoot me an email at [email protected]
