Foursquare Is Getting Into the Social Trip Planning Business
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The travel startup scene is littered with the corpses of social trip-planning services. But Foursquare's check-ins are a gold mine of data, and it's smart enough that it knows this is a nice-to-have feature, not a business in itself.
Foursquare has always walked the line between local experiences and travel, and today it launched a trip planning feature that serves as its most explicit nod towards the latter.
Trip Tips encourages users to share details about an impending trip with their social networks on Facebook and Twitter, and then wait for suggestions to flood in. Foursquare connects the ideas with points of interest in its system and builds a map and list of to-dos for users to access on their
