Introduction
Many business and leisure travellers are considering the need for tracking, management and monitoring services. This solution alone, along with any other, will not completely solve all your travel risk management obligations and requirements. However, it can play a significant role in ensuring your safety and contact with others through formal and informal channels, during routine and emergency circumstances.
We often have our clients and partners request information and alternatives to consider when examining their business and leisure travel management options. The descriptions provided are direct from the providers themselves and there is a link to each of the providers for further consideration. There is no particular order to the list of services.
Below are 10 of the most accessible business and leisure travel tracking, locating and monitoring services for travellers, peers, friends or general groups? that we have trialled or used and can recommend as effective alternatives to the mainstream corporate tracking, locating and monitoring services.
?Service Options
TripIt organizes travel plans into an itinerary that has all of your trip details in one place.
Simply forward confirmation emails to?plans@tripit.com?and TripIt will automatically build an itinerary for your trip that you can access anytime, either online or from a mobile device.
TripIt
WorldMate builds your business travel itinerary and puts it on your phone. Your entire travel plan is automatically synchronized with your mobile device.? The itinerary includes all your travel bookings -?flights,?hotels,?car rentals?etc.- wherever you?ve booked them, plus all of your?meetings. Everything is synchronized over the air with the WorldMate online travel planner?and with your calender, making it easy to share with your colleagues or assistant. All items are presented in the destination time-zone, and are clickable for additional information like confirmation numbers, phone numbers, terminals, gates etc. Best of all ? it?s up-to-date, and any changes made are reflected on your mobile device as well as the worldmate.com website, so you always have the correct and up-to-date itinerary with you.
Worldmate Live
Add push flight alerts, Tripit, terminal maps and weather delays. No subscription needed! The app gives you everything you need to manage your flights in real-time. With over 5000 airports listed and over 1400 airlines available, it?s the most comprehensive way to monitor your flights. It even has an offline mode for in-flight use.
FlightTrack Pro
ITA?s mobile solution for airfare pricing and shopping, opens a new sales and service channel for airlines and travel distributors. Travel companies can now license and integrate QPX? with their booking engines and for their mobile platforms.ITA?s mobile solution makes it fast and fun for your travelers to compare options across airlines, dates, and alternate cities/airports.
OnTheFly
With KAYAK?s mobile apps, you have everything on KAYAK.com right in your hand. Find the right flight, the perfect hotel, and even manage your itinerary or track your flight status. Our free apps are available for the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile 7 and Nokia devices.
Kayak Mobile
The Breadcrumb iPhone application, in conjunction with the Breadcrumbmobile service, is used to locate your high value assets such as people, vehicles and equipment 24/7 anywhere in the world and collectively displays them on a world map. This solution identifies the location of any subscribed location aware device (smartphone, automobiles or specialty devices using GPS technology). Breadcrumb displays the location of the asset at any time and can display the entire group together on a single map. The Breadcrumb application is a free app for iPhone users, however, to join a group of users or to be monitored by Breadcrumb?s 24/7 call center requires a subscription to the Breadcrumbmobile service.
The Breadcrumb app utilizes background location tracking to constantly update the iPhone?s location to the Breadcrumbmobile service.
Breadcrumb
With?TravelTracker Pro?, you can organize all of your travel related items such as flights, hotel stays and car rentals all from within a single app.
It has never been easier than when using TravelTracker.? All of your vital bits of information regarding your trip are always at your finger tips.
Adding information is simple.? For flights, all you need to do is just select the airline and enter the flight number and date of travel.? TravelTracker will load all of the remaining flight details.? It will even tell you if you have any meals on your flight.
It will even download your complete itinerary from?TripIt.com.
TravelTracker Pro
In the past, you needed a smart phone to easily share your location. Now you can share your location from your computer, too, and say:
- Where you?ve been.?Remember where you were in your favorite photos.
- Where you are now.?If friends are nearby, they might just meet you there.
- Where you?re going.?Friends who have been there can give you tips or even join in the plan.
Foursquare?build tools that help you keep up with friends, discover what?s nearby, save money and unlock deals. Whether you?re setting off on a trip around the world, coordinating a night out with friends, or trying to pick out the best dish at your local restaurant.
Foursquare
- Google Location HistoryStore your past location history, view and manage it with Google Maps, and see a dashboard of interesting information, such as trips or frequently visited locations. Your location history is not shared with anyone.
- Google Location BadgePublish your current Google Latitude location on your blog or web site. You may publish your city level or best available location.
Google Latitude
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