TripIt Launches Calendar Integration In Time for Holiday Travel

Trip planning service TripIt is launching a few userful updates to their service today. The most useful is their updated calendar integration which now syncs itineraries with any personal calendar that supports iCal, including Google Calendar, Outlook 2007, and Plaxo.

We’ve reviewed the service before but here is the simple description: take your email trip confirmations, email them into TripIt and get a nicely formatted page of your trip plan – almost like the old days TripTiks from AAA. Then you can share the plan with family and friends and, as noted above, add it to your calendar.

They’ve also added the ability to accept trip confirmations from Aer Lingus, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Tiger Airways, Virgin Blue and Avis Europe, Amtrak, Eurostar, GNER, UK Trainline and VIA Rail.

What’s interesting is a discussion I had with a fellow at the NY Tech Meetup about TripIt. He said he wouldn’t use this service because it really doesn’t save much time. I think the real benefit of TripIt is in the one printout and the sharing ability. When I travel, I print out every hotel, air, rail confirmation — with this I would only need for one printout.

Triple A (AAA) needs to acquire TripIt fast.

Editor’s note: We were provided a 10AM embargo time, but as other sites have posted this information prior to 10AM, we shall follow. They might have had different embargo times.