TripIt Releases Open Travel Itinerary API for Developers

13 February 2009 12:34am

Online travel itinerary and trip planning service TripIt announced the availability of a new API (Application Programming Interface) for developers to create software applications that integrate with TripIt travel itineraries.

The TripIt API is the travel industry’s first open API for sharing travel itinerary information between travel websites, travel suppliers, travel agents and related travel services.

TripIt is an open travel platform that already supports bookings from more than 350 travel-related sites and works with partners including LinkedIn, Microsoft Windows Live and Sabre VirtuallyThere.

With the new TripIt API, any developer can now build an application that integrates with TripIt, including the first ones from Expens’d, FlightTrack and Where I’ve Been.

Developers who have used this API include Expens’d (http://www.expensd.com/), an online expense application that now automatically includes details from TripIt itineraries to simplify expense reporting and the popular iPhone application, FlightTrack (http://www.approposmobile.com/), which now synchs flights from TripIt itineraries.