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27.07.2023 - 18:10 / smartertravel.com
From action-packed adventures to relaxing family getaways, everyone has their own particular way of traveling. But for most people, vacation planning is the same scattered process: Ask friends for recommendations, look up what sounds good, and try to keep track of all the ideas. The new TripAdvisor (SmarterTravel’s parent company) is aiming to change that.
No matter how you’ve kept track of your vacation ideas up until now (email threads? Shared Google Docs? Pen and paper?), every trip is about to get a lot easier to plan. The new TripAdvisor website and app launched this week, transforming the site into a travel-first social network where you can follow your favorite fellow travelers, from travel experts to friends and family. Users can share ideas both publicly and privately, and you can create your own itineraries based on everything from experts’ tips to honest reviews from people you know personally.
Related: Revamped TripAdvisor Will Become a Social Network for Travel PlanningYou can also follow SmarterTravel and over a thousand other travel outlets that are already on the new TripAdvisor sharing vacation ideas, articles, and mapped itineraries. Existing TripAdvisor users can already use the new TripAdvisor too, so you can follow family and friends you personally trust for recommendations that make better use of your hard-earned vacation time.
Here’s how to harness the power of the new TripAdvisor to help you plan your next trip.
Let Experts Plan for YouYour next vacation could very well already be planned out by an expert you trust. Following the travel outlets, celebrities, and brands you already know and love means keeping up with ideas and itineraries (called Trips) built by those who share your travel style. Searching a destination will create a thread of all the recommendations from the people and outlets you follow.
Whether you’re looking for suggestions on where to go next or searching for an itinerary in a specific city, the new TripAdvisor allows you to curate the travel tips you want and save them for later. Travel outlets are also sharing travel articles, tips, and ideas directly from their own sites, so you can stay current on news or seasonal travel issues that could directly affect you.
Related: The World’s 10 Best Museums, and How to Skip the Lines Co-Plan Trips Directly with Your FriendsThe new TripAdvisor isn’t just a social network: Users will also have the ability to create and edit itineraries privately with other users in the Trips tab. If you’ve ever found yourself stuck with all the planning for an upcoming group trip, it’s about to get a lot easier to have a group drawing board. Collaborating on Trips means you can add users to your list (by selecting the plus
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