TripHub's new collaboration tools

Today, online group travel company TripHub launched new community features, Trip Blogs and Event Schedules. These features are a great complement to the group trip home page "hub" and invite functionality. They received some excellent blogosphere coverage including TechCrunch, Gigaom, Mashable, CNET, and John Cook's blog.

Here is an excerpt from the TripHub press release describing these new features:

Trip Blogs enable discussions, announcements, lists, idea sharing, and decision-making within the context of a private trip. TripHub customers can discuss dining options, proposed activities, ground transportation, etc. This centralized history of discussions simplifies the exchange and recall of information and helps streamline decision-making. Trip Blogs also provide a fun and easy way to share trip memories post-travel.

Event Schedules provide a consolidated, shared view of all trip-related activities such as dining plans, entertainment, events, and tours. Event Schedules allow for easy communication of important dates, times and locations and can be printed so everybody has a portable agenda of what is happening, when and where.

Group travel, as TripHub describes it, is the "next online travel frontier" and I think TripHub has created excellent tools to help customers plan group trips and, over time, will define the category.

Disclaimer: I'm an advisor to TripHub.