Bottom line: an efficient way to build an itinerary based on recommendations from friends and other travelers.
The new trip-planning tool, at www.expedia.com/activities, creates a personalized itinerary based on information you provide about your vacation preferences.
So I searched French guidebooks, German Web sites and Japanese magazines, and devised a loose itinerary based on their recommendations: shops in Brooklyn, museums in Queens, parks and bars in Manhattan, hip-hop landmarks in the Bronx.
The proposed approach adopted a nested architecture in which tour planning routine calls multimodal shortest path subroutine to generate an itinerary based on user preferences and restrictions of interesting points.
I could have planned my nightly itinerary based on WWOZ's regular listings (which are read on-air and are available online) but I had already enlisted the help of Jay Mazza, a music writer who covers New Orleans for the blog thevinyldistrict.com.
Country Walkers, based in Waterbury, Vt., for example, will organize an itinerary based on its standard eight-day tour of Sicily and the Aeolian Islands, beginning in Syracuse and including the Vendicari nature reserve, Taormina, Mount Aetna and the islands of Vulcano, Lipari and Salina, and Catania.
You put your interests and then the website builds an itinerary based on what you like.
Trips builds an itinerary based on the top things to do, and how much time you have.
Then Trippy's trip planning tool will actually help you build an itinerary based on the places you've saved.
In the next few weeks Center'd will also be deploying its suggestion engine to the iPhone, with a mobile application that will allow users to generate a day-long itinerary based on the amount of money they're able to spend and the type of activities they'd like to persue.
