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TripIt, a free online travel organizer and social network, is helping travelers stay connected with the release of its new location-based social ”Closeness” alerts.

The new features include “Who’s Close To Me?” which automatically notifies users if their travel plans overlap with fellow travelers while on the road, and “Who’s Coming to my City?” which automatically identifies colleagues who will be visiting their hometown when they’re not traveling.

With the new Closeness alerts, TripIt offers a unique social network for travelers and their community of contacts. In addition to knowing who’s going to be where in the real world, TripIt also allows travelers to “connect” with each other online to share and collaborate on trips. And, TripIt automatically syncs itineraries with calendars and eliminates the need for manual entry, even if plans or details change, so that travelers are always “in sync” wherever they are.

TripIt is an online personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all travel plans. The company was co-founded by Gregg Brockway, co-founder of Hotwire and former president of Expedia’s luxury travel company Classic Vacations, Inc. They just launched back in September of 2007. Branson rentals

TripIt, releases new features that simplify the aftermath of booking travel online. They are a new online travel assistant that organizes trips including air, hotel, car, rail, restaurant, and activities-even when booked through different online services.

Travelers simply forward their travel confirmation emails to plans@TripIt.com and TripIt automatically builds a master online itinerary. Each personalized itinerary features the trip details, confirmation numbers, locations, weather, maps, city guides, OpenTable restaurant reservations and more.

TripIt is accessible from any PC as well as mobile phones. And, TripIt is also a community for friends, family and associates to share travel plans with each other. Travelers can easily choose who and what they share with their contacts.

Travelers can easily sync itineraries with any personal calendar that supports iCal, including Google Calendar, Outlook 2007, Plaxo, and others. It eliminates the need for travelers to manually update their calendars with flights, hotels, rental cars, restaurant reservations, and other important details, and keeps everything up to date, even if their plans change.

Since travel is a global activity, TripIt now supports international accents, umlauts, and other special characters as well as displaying temperatures in Celsius or Fahrenheit. International date formats are also on the way. In addition to existing overseas services, TripIt now supports travel confirmation emails from Aer Lingus, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Tiger Airways, Virgin Blue and Avis Europe, as well as rail providers Amtrak, Eurostar, GNER, UK Trainline and VIA Rail.

TripIt was launched in September 2007, TripIt is an online personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all travel plans. The company was co-founded by Gregg Brockway, co-founder of Hotwire and former president of Expedia’s (NASDAQ: EXPE) luxury travel company Classic Vacations, Inc.

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