How Mobile Travel Apps Have Transformed the User Experience
Skift Take
How long will it be before we talk about travel websites as always having an essential, if limited place, in much the same way that we sometimes talk about print guidebooks? Smartphones with bigger screens, tablets of mini and maximum dimensions ... buckle your seatbelts.
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When you think of itinerary management organizer TripIt in 2013 perhaps one of the first things that comes to mind is your next flight or hotel stay popping up on Facebook or sharing your upcoming trip plans through TripIt apps with your LinkedIn connections.
You probably associate TripIt with one of its smartphone or tablet apps, and TripIt.com, the website, that is, may be an after-thought -- if you consider it at all.
But, when you circle back to the beginning of time in the world of mobile travel apps to circa 2009, when iPhone apps in travel such as TripIt's and Kayak's first started emerging on the scene, social media wasn't high on t
