Travellers can use social media to make their trips easier.

Business travellers often have to send an international package delivery back home, either for work or to friends and family.

Now it seems that social media can be used to make travelling much easier for business people.

Businesstraveller.com editor Mark Caswell believes that apps and social media like Twitter via mobile phones is perfect getting the latest travel information to streamline their trips.

He explained that instances of snow and the ash cloud in 2010 saw airlines updating customers via Twitter for the first time.

"As people are more comfortable with using the internet on their mobile phone they're then going to be making bookings and online purchases in the same manner," he added.

A recent study of travellers staying at Sheraton hotels in the UK, US and China found that 60 per cent use social networking to stay in touch while travelling.

Two-thirds (64 per cent) said they use social media to plan trips, while that figure jumps to 76 for the 25-34 year group.

Posted by Tom Sands 

Article Added: 13/01/2011 16:52:33