TripAdvisor Launches ‘Travel Timeline’ on Mobile App

Travel website TripAdvisor recently launched a “Travel Timeline” feature for its mobile app that helps travelers conveniently log and share experiences from their trips.

Once activated, the feature automatically creates a timeline of the places travelers have visited and the photos they’ve taken at each location, which can be viewed in chronological order or as a route on a map. The timeline is private to the user on their TripAdvisor app, but travelers can edit their timeline and easily share it with family and friends.

To activate Travel Timeline, users log on to the TripAdvisor mobile app and opt-in to the feature. Once the feature is activated, it will keep a log of the points of interest that the user has visited in a running timeline, and travelers can easily rate and review hotels, restaurants, or attractions they visited. The feature uses the phone’s GPS and motion sensors to predict when the user is visiting somewhere or if they are just passing by. Users may turn Travel Timeline off at any time.

Travel Timeline will be available through the free TripAdvisor mobile app only on iOS in 28 languages worldwide.