Those problems make the Outlook import/iCal more dangerous than useful. The iCal data from WorldMate doesn’t have proper time zone information. Almost all the flights we imported had time zone related errors. The appointment time zone setting isn’t used. As you can see in the above example, Outlook shows the wrong arrival time because there’s a summer time hour difference between Sydney and Brisbane. There’s a Calendar sync link on the home page or choose a trip then select ‘Calendar sync’ on the right, near the top of the page.īut the biggest problem is incomplete time zone support. The import into Outlook is done via the standard iCal system. You can get 3 months access free by booking a hotel via their web site. To do that, and get other extras, you need a Gold account which costs US$9.90 for a year. Worldmate sounds nice enough but at Office Watch we’re interested in how you can get those details into our Outlook calendar. The Welcome message from Worldmate might get caught by your Outlook spam filter, look in the Junk Email folder to find it and confirm your email address/account.
The apps can connect to LinkedIn and Facebook, check weather as destination, check flight status and other goodies. That itinerary can show up on Apple, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry devices via a free app. If your travel agents itinerary isn’t accepted try the ‘GDS’ web sites that let you look at bookings directly – we have a 2002 article on these sites. It’s always worth checking the imported details, in our tests there were some omissions. The parsing of emails works quite well and even accepts PDF attachments from supported companies. Once you have a confirmed Worldmate account, email your booking confirmation emails to and it’ll read the text, figure out the details and insert them into an itinerary. It’s an online service which takes your emailed booking confirmations (from airlines, hotels etc) and automatically converts them into an itinerary. Worldmate is one way around this typing tedium.
Typing in flights, hotels etc is a pain but necessary because once in Outlook the details will appear anywhere you have the calendar synced like a smartphone. One of the tedious parts of travelling is entering all the details into Outlook calendar. Worldmate is a clever travel organizer which talks to Outlook.
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