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Travel Planning Templates - Guide for Use
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This template is provided through the University of Illinois Student Money Management Center. Andrea Pellegrini created the template(s) to help consumers plan travel and estimate costs based on travel planning she has done with her partner. Feel free to make a copy of this template and modify it for your own needs.

If planning a trip with others, using a collaborative tool can be helpful for brainstorming and discussing your options, priorities, and values in a travel plan, especially if you're remote from each other and planning to meet up at your destimation. As SMMC has discussed in other publications (e.g., Budgeting, Goal-setting, Setting Goals for Your Well-being, SMART goals), using the SMART framework can help in your planning process and discussion with others that you will be traveling with:

S - The more specific you are about what you want your trip to look like, the easier it is to stay focused on it as a savings goal and discuss with others.
M - This template is valuable for measuring the amount of money that you will need (or the time it will take) for your trip.
A - Making sure that your destination and other details of the trip are agreed upon is extremely valuable!
R - Having realistic expectations about your trip and its potential can prevent you from being disappointed and help you plan for contingencies.
T - Setting up the time frame for your trip can help with booking travel, saving for expenses, and coordinating transportation, lodging, and activities.

Questions? Contact studentmoney@uillinois.edu.
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