Jaunt.com

1) The website focuses the users' search space by recommending options in keeping with their time and budget constraints, overall popularity of places and comments by their friends and family members. This is particularly useful for our target group who often are too busy to devote a lot of time to trip planning.

2) Keeping in mind that the young college students are explorative and adventurous and do not prefer to have too rigid an itinerary, our itinerary builder is modifiable real time and recommends options accommodating any change in plans and detours.

3) The feature of having a group trip album helps collect the experiences shared together and is aimed at creating a bond among the travel group.

4) Photo sharing and blogging help the users tell a travel story without having to spend a lot of time. The feature of making some photos visible to friends only and others addresses the need of the target group to keep some "secrets" between friends.

5) The experiences collected by a user on jaunt.com can be used as a tool by others to plan their own experiences. A connection is thus established between planning and collecting experiences.