TripIt allows travellers to organise and share their travel plans with colleagues, family and anyone else in their professional or social networks.
The deal will see BCD Travel transfer bookings to TripIt, which will deliver a master itinerary to the traveller’s personal TripIt account.
The itinerary may be accessed online, via a mobile device or iPhone application and through professional or social networking sites. In addition to their itinerary, the user will see weather forecasts, maps, directions and other details related to their trip.
Travellers can also use TripIt's ‘Itinerator’ to combine information about restaurants, event tickets and their personal travel, elements typically not booked by a travel agency. To integrate this information the user simply forwards confirmation emails to TripIt.
As part of the deal, BCD Travel clients will have preferred access to TripIt Pro, a new premium service for frequent travellers, offering itinerary monitoring with mobile alerts, alternate flight options, frequent traveller point tracking and automated trip sharing.
April Bridgeman, BCD Travel's senior vice president of strategic marketing and technology planning, said: ‘Because our travellers are living increasingly mobile and socially networked lifestyles, we're building ways to harmonise those needs within a corporate travel programme.
‘TripIt fits perfectly within our vision for providing the best post-booking traveller experience available and embracing practical social features that add value to clients and travellers.
‘This is an important first step in our journey to offer our clients the best resources to enhance the traveller experience.’
BCD Travel plans to begin offering TripIt services in early 2010. It will be TripIt's first deal with a TMC.
See also:
BCD Travel rolls out Agency Manager (09/07/2009)
Amadeus unveils mobile solutions (01/07/2009)
Mantic Point launches SME tool (15/05/2009)
BCD invests in Austria (16/02/2009)