It’s become impossible to deny that everything involves technology now. Even travel designed to bring you far away from modern amenities requires booking through a computer. Making arrangements and meeting up with others makes a phone essential. Oh, and don’t forget that you are reading a travel blog.
Seeing all of this, it isn’t hard to be frustrated by the steep slide of the times. But It is also important to keep in mind that these tools often produce some pretty neat results. I did a bit of digging and came up with a few sites the modern traveler could certainly take advantage of.
Trip-it is an online itinerary builder, it allows you to create an account and save your trip schedule along with a few other things like travel statistics for your journey.
This site is great when looking to book a seat on a flight. By simply plugging in the flight number or the plane model it will give you a map with the good, bad and the ugly seats and it even explains why! Very convenient, very cool.
A social media site exclusively for travel. I’ve found a few of these in my search, it comes down to preference, but with over a million users this has a good user base as backing. Use it to share stories and updates, advice, and well, meeting people.
This site goes beyond just forecasting the most recent weather conditions, it applies weather history to give you an idea of the area’s times to travel for the best shot at sunny days.
This site is more aesthetically pleasing than anything else, in fact I’m pretty sure it’s a compilation of beautiful photos from around the web. But with the names of places it is a good way to start thinking about where you might want to visit, and… Pretty pictures!
These are a very small preview of what tools the web has to offer in terms of traveling. I may do another series of nifty travel sites but until then I encourage you to look these up as well as a few others.
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