5 New Travel Startups Making the Trip-Planning Process Smarter


Skift Take

For many travelers trip-planning means planning to relax, lie by a beach or pool and not do anything for a week. For others it means adrenaline-pumping adventure requiring firm planning and these startups want to help with both mindsets.

[gallery ids="157027,157028,157029,157030,157031"] There are the travelers who have checklists of everything they want to see during their two-week trip to Europe with flights pre-booked, check-ins time-stamped and restaurants already preselected. And then there are those who just want to escape the hustle of their daily routines for the week of vacation they're allotted each year and don't want an itinerary, deadlines and bulleted items they need to see or else. Every traveler wants the reassurance that the basics will be taken care of, such as trusted accommodation options and airport transfers, but the hour-to-hour s