Trip30 Delivers the Ultimate Backbone of Travel Planning

DENVER, Sept. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The recent release of Google Trips has many travelers cheering the app's post-reservation and in-travel functionality, but still looking for a tool to help them with their pre-reservation planning. Enter Trip30; a free, online solution that helps users sort out all the logistics of a trip before committing to specific reservations.

Founder, Jim Ball, explains "Trip30 provides the ultimate backbone of travel planning. You can add, change and rearrange destinations, options for travel between destinations, lodging, events and local travel. As you add them, travel components appear on a map and on a timeline that takes into consideration changes in time zones and daylight savings shifts anywhere in the world and any time of the year. The map and timeline help you identify potential schedule challenges."

Those schedule challenges become particularly apparent on longer overseas trips. For example, a non-stop flight from Tokyo to Denver takes 10-1/2 hours, but has an arrival time 4-1/2 hours earlier than its departure time. On Trip30's timeline, that flight appears as its full duration, but the labels shift to reflect the correct departure and arrival dates and times. No need to worry about whether you've scheduled follow-on activities at the proper time.

Users range from highly-detailed planners who want to leave nothing to chance, to those who just want to make sure they've covered the basics of where they want to go and how they'll get there. Ball has found that users typically start the planning process several months in advance of travel and visit the site every couple weeks to update plans or just dream about their upcoming experience. He points out that "for many users, part of travel planning is about building the anticipation and excitement of the trip. The planning process extends the magic of travel and becomes almost as enjoyable as the travel, itself."

Trip30 is designed to be used on a computer for the planning phase, with mobile access to the resulting itinerary. Trip plans can be shared with others via email or on social media. The company is adding new features on a regular basis and asks users to submit suggestions for functionality they'd like to see. Check out the site at www.trip30.com.

Media Contact: Jim Ball, Trip30, 7209341036, jball@trip30.com

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