Yahoo announces a new tool for the traveler, Trip Planner Beta, provides a toolkit that can make your travel planning better and more efficient.

From Information Week.

Trip Planner Beta, available through Yahoo Travel, can create, print and share with others personalized trip itineraries, officials with the Sunnyvale, Calif., Web portal said. Information is drawn from Yahoo, as well as from anywhere else on the Web.

Other new features include travel photos from Flickr, Yahoo’s photo-sharing service, and a database of vacation home rentals from owners. The user-contributed photos complement the 300,000 existing photos in Yahoo Travel, the company said.

Other features currently available on Yahoo Travel are message boards to discuss destinations with other travelers, consumer ratings and reviews on various locations, hotels, restaurants and activities; and listings for vacation rentals and points of interest.