Top Social Travel Sites
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Social media firms are launching a tonne of services to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of travel planning by utilising the newest social media networks and capabilities, making social travel a hot area for social media innovation.
In the process, they are upending the well-established travel sector, which includes trip planners, travel companies, and other rental businesses. Travel social networks that have emerged in more recent years are becoming a greater threat to even first-generation social travel sites like TripAdvisor, which has millions of user-generated travel reviews.
What Is Social Travel?
Sharing travel-related information with others is referred to as social travel. The new services typically come with a website and a mobile application and allow you to access your Twitter and Facebook social networks for travel tips as well as connect with other travellers via the websites' own social travel networks. Some are geared at reservations and rentals, while more are about tools for discovery and sharing and are intended to serve as your own travel journal.
Every month, new social travel providers like Suiteness, based in San Francisco, appear. We've put together the following list of six notable pioneers in social travel because it might be difficult to recognise which websites are deserving of attention given the abundance of options.
Trippy
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What We Enjoy
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Plan long trips and drives using these examples.
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provides very specific guidance.
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What Dislikes Us
unreliable search functionality.
Information about the destination is not organised well.
Trippy is an online travel planning tool that resembles Pinterest and integrates with Facebook and Twitter. It also provides itinerary-planning tools with social elements. It allows individuals to seek out travel advice from their connections on those networks and from others who have visited the locations they're considering visiting. The user interface resembles Pinterest and features a visual grid of what it refers to as "travel boards," which are image collections from locations you enjoy or have been to. The site went live in 2011. Additionally, Trippy has a free iPhone app.
Everplaces
Everplaces
What We Like
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Mobile apps work well without an internet connection.
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Control who sees your posts.
What We Don't Like
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Website loads slowly, there's a lot of pictures.
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Can be difficult to navigate.
A social network and smartphone app similar to Pinterest called Everplaces allows you to keep track of the locations you've been and those you desire to go by category. It began in closed beta in 2011 and went live to the general public in 2012. Create your own collection of the places you love, as the tagline urges you to do. Location-based tracking and planning are the focus of the Danish startup. Users can follow one another, just like on Pinterest. Everplaces just released a business-focused platform that enables individuals and organisations to create miniature trip guides as apps for mobile devices. The iPhone app for Everplaces is also accessible.
Trip by SkyScanner
What We Like
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"Tribes" feature that plans trips around personal interests.
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Destination pages include comprehensive weather information.
What We Don't Like
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Distracting advertisements for other travel websites.
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Not the best tool to find cheap flights.
Due in part to early Facebook integration, Trip by Skyscanner (formerly GoGoBot) is one of the more well-known travel apps. It provides a similar service to Trippy but has a unique interface that is great for arranging trips. With a concentration on user-reviewed mini-guides to specific locations, it was created in 2010 and resembles TripAdvisor more than Pinterest. Trip by Skyscanner also enables users to make hotel reservations while planning, make photo postcards for sharing, review venues, collect "stamps" from destinations, and keep track of their travels in a "passport." Trip by Skyscanner offers an iPhone app in addition to its website.
TripIt
Tripit
What We Like
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Coordinate plans with groups of travellers.
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Import travel details from your email.
What We Don't Like
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Must create an account and supply an email address.
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Advanced features require a premium membership.
The social network TripIt is used for creating vacation plans and itineraries. It offers resources for transforming the reservations you have for flights, hotels, and rental cars into mobile itineraries. Trip It offers free mobile applications for Android, iOS, and the iPhone.
AirBnB
AirBnB
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Accommodations and tours you won't find anywhere else.
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"Concerts" section covers the local music scene.
What We Don't Like
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Limited customer service.
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Some "experiences" packages are overpriced.
People can reserve space in other people's homes through the leading innovator in internet rentals, AirBnB. Users can make profiles and post reviews of the places they've stayed and rented. By 2012, Airbnb, which debuted in 2008, had hundreds of thousands of listings across a few hundred nations. There are many advertisements for rooms in private homes that are occupied by other individuals, but there are also postings for complete apartments and homes. In order to improve security, hosts and guests review one another publicly after check-out. People still frequently refer to it as air bed & breakfast, as it was originally called. Apps for Android and iPhone are available from Airbnb.
