About Us

We’re a group of college students and twenty-somethings, we share a passion for technology and travel, and we launched gtrot.com with a simple goal in mind: making travel cheaper, easier, and way more social. That’s why gtrot combines the booking tools you already use with the academic and social information you need to make the most of your trips. And because we want to make travel simple again, we do it all on three pages:

My Trips page: This is your travel profile – the place to keep track of past trips and future plans. Anytime you make a booking on gtrot, we store your reservation on this page automatically and invite you to add additional details about your trip. This information is then accessible to your Facebook friends so they can see where you’ve been, where you’re going, and how you’re getting there. This page also features a travel map and calendar to help you record and manage your trips, and simple privacy settings that let you control how your information is shared.

My Friends page: This is your tool for exploring friends’ trips. You can filter aggregated trip data by friend, city, and date range to answer all sorts of important travel questions. Maybe you don’t know where to go for spring break. Simply filter by holiday to see all the spring break hot spots, and then click on a particular city to see exactly who’s going there. Or perhaps you’ve already made plans to visit London over Winter Break and want to find friends who will be there too. Just search by city and holiday – it’s that easy. Even if you don’t find friends with overlapping plans, you’ll at least find a friend who’s been there before, providing you with a valuable resource for travel advice. Isn’t trip-sharing cool?

Our booking tools connect you with the largest inventories of flights, hotels, and hostels from the web’s most trusted brands. You get more for less. We also provide powerful cab- and ride-sharing tools for college users, saving you money while reducing the environmental impact of your holiday travel. (Note: these tools will be fully available in early 2010, well ahead of the Spring Break holiday!)

In short, we take something that you’re doing already – booking trips – and help you automatically share your trip information with friends. Then we provide structure to the valuable social information that emerges, helping you connect with the information you need to plan trips and enjoy richer, more social travel experiences. It’s really everything you need to travel and connect.