My wife and I have traveled the world, hiking, climbing, diving, exploring, and learning. We’ll never get tired of traveling; however, travel planning hits us before every trip. Over the years, we’ve learned much about optimizing and streamlining the process! Here’s a look at what we’ve learned about making travel itineraries. Not to mention how Travel-Wise is changing the travel industry forever. Our goal is to make these processes easier to manage.
Over the years, we’ve learned a lot of tips and tricks. We’d love to share our experience and knowledge on planning your perfect trip. You’ll also see Travel-Wise, a tool that helps you plan your trip. This beautiful planet should be accessible to everyone without worries or fears.
There are a lot of worries and fears that come with traveling somewhere new and unknown. To see everything there is to see in this world, you’ve got to prepare and plan well before you go. Travel itineraries that are safe and enjoyable break down the barrier to getting out for many. Let’s explore how to plan a trip together.
How to Make Your Travel Plans More Flexible and Fun
Everyone wants something different for their next trip. Those can change over time, too. Not to mention, budgets and costs vary wildly across the world.
Let’s look at some good points to reflect on with all the variety you may want on your next trip.
Travel Plans with Your Personality and Interests
What you’re looking for can be radically different if you understand your travel persona. You can highlight certain activities or destinations based on your persona. It defines your unique travel style and may vary from trip to trip.
Depending on who you are, you might enjoy different activities. It’s important to consider what suits you on your next trip.
Balance Your Budget and Comfort When Traveling
Everyone is limited on what they can spend since resources aren’t infinite. Think about your budget, mark your upper limit, and limit your plans.
Some folks have an exclusively cushier way of traveling—Cushier- like avoiding the budget spots. Consider where you are willing to travel cheaply and when it is worth it to spend a bit more.
Travel Destination Based on Your Comfort Zone
Some people don’t see it as a big deal to climb Everest, travel through the Amazon, land in a politically unstable area, and dive into the black ocean. Still, others should know about it and plan for it or avoid it altogether. What is your comfort zone?
The Pros and Cons of Traveling Near or Far
If you’re looking for a road trip, a short flight, or if you’re willing to go to space and back, you should consider your options. There is, of course, a higher cost and more time needed to travel over longer distances.
Plan Your Travel According to Your Time Availability
Are you a digital nomad with tons of free time or someone with a limited vacation budget? Whether you are a digital nomad or on a short business trip, your time restrictions significantly impact your planning. Learn how much time you have for your next trip, no matter how short or long.
Travel-Wise to Explore and Design Your Travel Itinerary
It can feel like searching your soul to find what you want, mainly if you’re not accustomed to uncertainty. With Travel-Wise, you’ll be able to see lots of examples of itineraries quickly and easily.
There are search filters that match various angles of what you’re looking for. You can adjust your search parameters until you see the itineraries you like.
After some research, please make your own, share it with the community, and build it how you like. We’re going to make this process faster than ever with Travel-Wise.
Are you looking for more information on this topic? Then, check out this article that dives into more!
The Importance of Having a Plan When Embarking on an Adventure
It’s always been the most challenging part of traveling for me to find good sources of information. It’s no secret that knowledge is power in the intelligence world. You hope everything goes well when you do something without a plan.
We want to know what it’s like in other countries, states, and provinces. How do we do it? Truly. Planning my next trip? Here are my top resources.
It’s also dangerous to do things outside your comfort zone. From someone who often embarks on dangerous activities and thrills, I know I must approach these with a directional plan to mitigate risk.
The knowledge and experience you gain from the adventure will get you through it. Planning before going on such a trip; otherwise, you’ll waste your time, miss out on opportunities, and make mistakes that will haunt you forever.
During humankind’s early days of exploration, great adventurers always had a plan. Even though traveling has never been easier, knowing the risks is still essential.
Check the Safety and Stability of Your Travel
My #1 go-to for understanding political climate, concerns, and current understanding of different worldwide destinations is often just their governmental front end. Most often, they’re the most honest and straightforward.
However, expect many destinations to have a very outdated, old, and barely usable website. Governments tend to have poor websites, sometimes not very up-to-date. Some don’t have any information at all on the Internet. The US also has a rating system judging safety over geopolitics worldwide. Further, Travel-Wise has done some deep research for you to discover safety and other travel concerns in a wiki format in our country travel guides.
Finding and Using the Best Travel Books
We live in an Internet age, where you can access more information than ever! So here are my recommendations. There’s a reason books are hard to publish, and they’re vetted for quality and detail more than anything on the Internet.
But books like the Lonely Planet series have been great for me on many trips. Unfortunately, they could be outdated and stale pretty quickly. Especially given how rapidly the world is changing today. However, they are useful foundations and primers to begin your planning process.
The Advantages and Challenges of Using a Travel Agent
It’s great to get in-depth info on a destination from a travel agent because they know so much about it. They typically don’t cost you extra, as affiliation services often pay them. Finding a travel agent that’s right for you is the trick. There are a lot of pre-built templates for travel that travel agents also use.
Unlike tour guides, travel agents are experts who know much about a destination’s history and customs. They can provide detailed information without charging you more, as they usually get paid by partner services. The challenge is to find the travel agent that suits your needs. Most travel agents use pre-made plans that they also adjust.
We live in a vast world, and finding the right travel agent can be tough with many specializations and skill levels. It’s time for a travel agent-only search engine.
Personal Network to Plan Your Travel
Everybody has friends, family, and acquaintances who travel. Finding someone who’s been to that destination and planned it personally can give you much insight. In our written forms of communication, we lose a lot of meaning and detail. When talking to a travel agent or someone you know face to face, you can ask questions along the way.
This gives you a better idea of what you’re looking for in a destination. The personal interview can provide details that can be omitted or glossed over in other writing. It is important to remember that not everyone’s network will include a person knowledgeable about the location in which you are interested.
The Pros and Cons of Using Travel Blogs to Plan Your Travel
It’s a boom time for the Internet, and tons of new travel blogs are out there. Travel blogs like these helped me plan dangerous trips like Huemo Circuit (one of my most dangerous treks).
They can be super detailed, but the one we used still got us lost. I do recommend being careful with blogs. You should find reputable websites with great detail since information quality and disinformation can vary greatly. As a result, most travel blogs do not have any editing or fact-checking in place and may become stale over time (as all information does).
Travel-Wise Can Help You Find the Best Itineraries for Your Travel
There are a lot of doors that open with this information, but finding it isn’t easy. Travel-Wise helps by giving you search options. You can find itineraries with the information you need about places worldwide.
Our travel itinerary templates cover hiking, land exploration, scuba diving, road trips, and resort fever dreams. We give the travel community everything they need to maintain high-quality destination itineraries. We’ll keep innovating to make finding what you’re looking for in up-to-date itineraries easier.
The Essential Travel Itinerary Checklist
Now that you’ve come this far, you know how to find information and understand your aspirations. You’ve probably also found it hard to remember. The human mind can’t retain everything.
Without some written storage of this information, you’ll be practically winging your plan on the fly. Almost everyone has something to jot down when planning a trip. We’ve found what works for us.
Google/Microsoft Docs
It’s hard to beat the various Google or Microsoft document suites regarding collaborative planning. You can also access your documents offline with both of them.
You need offline capability while traveling to handle unpredictability! These docs have many tools, but I’m always fussy about travel itineraries. Maybe it is just me.
Email and Drafts
I don’t highly recommend email, but it works in a pinch for most people. You can access your emails offline from temporary drafts or group reply chains. Remember that it’s easy to lose or misplace important information with these. On top of that, the harder it is to find the information you need, the more stress you’ll bring yourself.
Evernote
For the niche of travel planning, Google and Microsoft Docs always feel clunky. The formatting isn’t perfect.
To-do lists are excellent, but EverNote is powerful and offers similar features as Google Docs and Microsoft Office. I like the format of this travel planner. Also, it’s quick to look up information on the go.
Printed documentation
It’s always best to go back to basics with print and pack. We’ll have papers with scribbles and notes written on them whenever we travel. They’re reliable, always at hand, and don’t need an internet connection or battery. The only downside is that losing them will be winging it off your memory.
How to Enjoy Your Travel with Travel-Wise
You’ll love Travel-Wise if you don’t have to fumble with your phone for the booking, address, or planning info. We want to give our users a one-stop shop to access the best tools that cater to neat and quick retrieval of information and are readily available. We’ve got tooling and support specifically designed to make your travels easier.
Tips for Travel Planning and Finding Others to Travel With
Of all the times I’ve traveled, most travel planning boils down to one leader doing most of the plans. This is done while catering and taking input from the rest of the group. It’s a practical leadership style that works. It requires a lot of time and thought.
From group chats on various chat applications to long email reply chain threads to discussions over group dinners. Information is here and there, and action items for different group members are tasked. Finally, the plan is coming together.
We’ve all been here, though. Folk gets busy, and group members drop the ball on the actions. Information is lost or forgotten about.
Folks drop out or bail on the trip for various last-minute reasons. Even though you might still succeed in fulfilling your trip, getting there can be messy.
Not to mention finding others to travel with. My wife and I enjoy adventurous trips. I cannot count the number of times folk quit on us at the last minute or have not been interested in extreme life.
It often comes down to us traveling just ourselves despite always wanting others to join us. Traveling with others is a very intimate and memorable experience. I was finding others to travel with stands to be a huge pain point today.
How to Benefit from the Travel Community and Travel Planner of Travel-Wise
While I still haven’t figured out the best way to bring everyone’s thoughts together and streamline the group part of the trip. I plan to make Travel-Wise the tip of the spear in facilitating this.
Travel-Wise is built as a travel community at its heart. Using the community around travel, we aim to improve communication. Moreover, we want a platform to connect communication with our Travel Planner. This keeps the conversation and relevant information in one place.
We’ll also use our social network as we grow the community. We’re letting travel plan owners invite other like-minded travelers.
Alternatively, travelers can request access to an open group forming. This opens up many opportunities to meet new people, form travel groups, and get group discounts. It’s like an online matchmaking system for travelers! Travel-Wise will keep drilling into this until we’re the best in the market.
Tips for Booking Your Travel with Different Options and Preferences
Friends, the planning journey has been extended, but this is the final obstacle to your travel urge. Nothing can stop you! However, problems may arise with booking today, such as changes, limited options, and crises. These challenges can make booking hard and tiresome.
Booking a trip can be complex, as your group could be in different places. You may meet at the destination but have different flights and dates, requiring separate bookings. Most of the group will stay together. However, accommodations can vary from a prominent shared place to camping or different rooms. Additionally, there are tours, permits, and other bookings that you need to plan for.
A group leader usually plans the flights, accommodation, and activities. Each person chooses to share or get their room. Then, the group leader can book for the group and get discounts. Finally, here are some tools to help.
We can often drive for group discounts ranging from 10-40% off if your group is large. Below are some tools we’ve used to make booking and planning easier. Anything to save money on an already expensive trip!
Google Flights
The Google Flights search engine has good details on information and flight deals. This app allows you to sort flights by least layover, hops, and hard short layovers.
Hotels.com
Booking through our go-to resource for hoteling worldwide is a great way to find destination stays. It is primarily for hoteling, so camping is not covered, but it works great for the budget and cozy rooms.
Airbnb
I’m not sure about you, but I’ve had good and bad experiences with Airbnb. But, on the other hand, many folks I’ve met swear that Airbnb can be cheaper than a traditional hotel stay, especially when you can rent a whole house for a large group. So, it is an ideal option to keep in mind.
Official destination permit holders or ticketing
Finding them can be challenging. Many government agencies run these systems and often have a lottery system that makes or breaks your trip. Be sure to research when the lottery opens, and ensure everyone in your group enters to increase your chances. Your trip plan may suffer if you don’t coordinate, plan, and do that.
It’s normal for local governments to limit traffic in fragile areas to protect them. Some places are so popular that they only let a few people in. There are a lot of great places that are locked behind permits, so don’t let that happen to you.
Booking Features of Travel-Wise
Our utmost priority is making your travel easier. Booking what you want at the cheapest rate is easier with our partner and affiliate booking agencies. You can still use our built-in travel planner while doing it.
Travel-Wise would let each member book for all members. The trip plan records every booking, so you can look it up whenever you want.
How Travel-Wise Can Help You Plan Your Travel Better and Faster
You can see traveling isn’t easy. As humankind has explored the unknown and continues to do that into space and beyond, it takes some planning to challenge that unknown and win. With growing infrastructure and agencies improving their travel industry, traveling is easier than ever.
Travel planning has never been easy for me. This is changing thanks to Travel-Wise’s website, community, and tools. As travelers, we want to help you use our experience by building tools you’ll love.
Don’t waste your precious time on planning. Enjoy more of the adventure. Our mission is to make the trip planning process better. Here are some of the features we aim to enhance on Travel-Wise.
Travel Community
With our forum and social network integrations, we hope to connect all our tools with the community entirely. Rather than providing the best travel itineraries worldwide, Travel-Wise inspires those passionate about travel to share their experiences with others.
Itinerary Creation Engine
Creating itineraries has never been easier. From trips you’ve taken, research you’re planning, or itineraries you’ve already planned, we’ll make it easy to share itinerary information. Likewise, we make it easy for others to build their trips from our templates.
Itinerary Search Engine
Most people come to Travel-Wise for inspiration or to plan a trip. Therefore, we strive to provide the best search engine to find exactly what you want. Using the search engine, you can find free itinerary templates that can be used as a basis for your trip planning.
Travel Planner
We’ll adjust the Travel Planner to suit your travel needs, whether you use supporting itineraries or make your own, from streamlining your group communication to accessing information offline, creating great visuals, recording your thoughts and memories in line, and creating a one-stop-shop for all your hoteling, booking, and dates. It’ll be easy once you’ve got your plan.
Itinerary and Trip Sharing
If you’ve got an incredible itinerary you’d like to promote or a journey you’d like to share with friends and family. We want to make it as simple as clicking a few buttons and pasting them into the appropriate places. You can do it on your blog, website, forums, social media, emails, etc. We’ll keep optimizing and refining it to make your memories beautiful and portable.
Travel Matching
The next phase of our planned future will tie it all together with a thriving community. We want to make it easier for our community to travel together. You can vet others based on their social profiles, contributions, and expertise.
It’s an excellent way to see their suitability for your group. Through our tooling, we’ll be able to meet group rate discounts by finding substitutes and others to travel with.
Travel Plan Booking
There’s more to it than just your travel plans. We’re working with partner booking agencies as our community grows. With this, we’ll be able to provide a great booking experience and drive up prices.
As well as booking your trips with Skyscanner, we have tools that automatically integrate with your travel plans. You’ll know where to arrive, depart, and stay, and we’ll help you with everything. Book separately for each person, and it’ll automatically appear in your travel plans.
Rich Creator Tooling
We want anyone using our tooling to have rich data about who has or will use your itinerary. To enable our creators to drive traffic to their websites, blogs, and services using Travel-Wise.