Abstract
Conference Title: 2013 International Conference on Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT) Conference Start Date: 2013, Dec. 11 Conference End Date: 2013, Dec. 12 Conference Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates The Smart Travel Planner is a web-based intelligent system for facilitating the travel planning process, which is implemented as a mashup of several travel-related services' APIs. Unlike other similar applications which essentially work as calendaring programs, our system is unique in that it integrates the information and functions needed for travel planning in their entirety within a single piece of software providing such features as checking hotel availability and calculating optimum routes between user-specified locations at various travel destinations, and offering suggestions for sightseeing, all the while making sure to take into consideration the user-specified needs for particular meeting days, times and locations and personal preferences for dining, relaxation and sleep. Furthermore, these services are not limited to a particular city but are offered for any city around the world for which such information exists within the databases of the services included in the mashup. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]