Travel Tip: Get easy travel itineraries with TripIt

Katherine Boehret at the Wall Street Journal writes today about two online travel services that can save you headaches: TripIt and Groopvine.

From what I can tell, the big helper here is TripIt, and the killer feature is being able to e-mail your scrambled-up confirmation itineraries to them for de-scrambling:

I started using TripIt by forwarding an Expedia email reservation to plans@tripit.com. Less than a minute later, I received an email from TripIt that included a link to my itinerary of flights, local weather forecasts for the duration of my vacation and maps related to where I was going.

Their system apparently works pretty well with the confirmation emails from most of the major booking sites - so Expedia is a go, etc.

It also lets you retrieve information via e-mail by sending in commands like “Get Flight Tomorrow,” which apparently works on blackberries (or, for that matter, any phone with e-mail).