This is the first of what we hope will be several articles highlighting various iPhone and Smartphone apps recommended for travelers. Whether you are traveling for business or pleasure, we want to provide you with helpful applications that will enhance your trip, not hamper it. The first app up for recommendation is TravelTracker with TripIt. TravelTracker was the first application of its kind and was among the first 100 applications available in Apple’s App Store. It’s still an incredibly popular app and with good reason—it works really well.

Here’s the information offered up in the iTunes App Store:

TravelTracker is your all-inclusive personal travel assistant. It stores all vital information for a trip and displays it in a convenient itinerary screen. Additionally, it will allow you to record all of the key pieces of information you need after your trip. This is a must have product for both business and personal use.

Its most powerful features include:

* Intuitive and well crafted user interface.
* One touch flight status.
* Stores frequently flown flights.
* Customizable packing lists.
* Records all details of your travel expenses.
* Recordkeeping of all of your frequent traveler award programs.
* Worldwide airport database with links to airport websites.
* Airplane database with link to seating charts.
* Email your itinerary (HTML, plain text or comma delimited).
* Email your expenses (plain text or comma delimited).
* Download current weather conditions for airports you specify and those that are in your day’s travels.
* Download weather forecasts for airports.
* Download currency exchange rates and know exactly your total trip expenses in the currency you choose.
* Set a default currency for trips.

With one tap, you can download all of your TripIt information into TravelTracker. It will download each of your trips and any flights, hotel reservations, car rentals, transports, meetings, activities, notes, articles and restaurant reservations. This information will then be available to you with our without an Internet connection. Not familiar with TripIt? Check it out at www.tripit.com.

This is a great app for travelers who desire to keep everything organized in one place. It’s extremely helpful to be able to keep details of travel expenses recorded for proper reporting after your trip has concluded. It’s also extremely nice to be able to set the default currency when you’re in other countries. This is very valuable when you’re traveling on a budget! The ability to have all of your information available without an Internet connection is important too with the TripIt feature.

If you’re getting ready to embark upon a trip, whether it’s a domestic or international jaunt, we encourage you to use TravelTracker with TripIt. It’s not a free app, but the powerful abilities it contains to keep all of your trip details organized is well worth the $7.99 price tag.

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