A travel itinerary is a

schedule A schedule or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things are ...

of events relating to planned

travel Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel c ...

, generally including destinations to be visited at specified times and means of transportation to move between those destinations. For example, both the plan of a

business trip Business travel is travel undertaken for work or business purposes, as opposed to other types of travel, such as for leisure purposes or regularly commuting Commuting is periodically recurring travel between one's place of residenc ...

and the route of a

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, or the proposed outline of one, are travel itineraries. The construction of a travel itinerary may be assisted by the use of

travel literature The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern pe ...

, including travel journals and diaries, a

guide book A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying det ...

containing information for visitors or tourists about the destination, or a trip planner website dedicated to helping the users plan their trips. Typically a travel itinerary is prepared by a travel agent who assists one in conducting their travel for business or leisure. Most commonly a travel agent provides a list of pre-planned travel itineraries to a traveller, who can then pick one that they're most satisfied with. However, with the advent of the internet, online maps, navigation, online trip planners and easier access to travel information in general, travellers, especially the younger ones prefer a more

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approach to travel planning. Since a travel itinerary might serve different purposes for different kinds of travellers, it is crucial for a travel agent to know all the characteristics of her/his

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of customers. A typical business traveller's itinerary might include information about meetings, events and contacts with some time for leisure travel, efficiently.

Making of reservations

When a proposed itinerary has been finalised, the details need to be entered into an airline reservation system, where the appropriate reservations and bookings are made. In the industry, the travel plan is commonly known as the itinerary and the data on the reservation system is known as a

passenger name record A passenger name record (PNR) is a record in the database of a computer reservation system (CRS) that contains the itinerary for a passenger or a group of passengers travelling together. The concept of a PNR was first introduced by airlines that ...

(PNR).

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One Day Itinerary
Collection of travel itineraries from around the world
Karambol Travel Itinerary
Travel itinerary generated automatically by country
Eat Move Make Food Fitness Travel Lifestyle
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Making of reservations

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