Travel privacy

How to share a travel itinerary without sharing your booking details

A useful itinerary tells someone where you will be and when. A risky one also hands over the details needed to change a booking, impersonate you, or learn more than you meant to share. The difference is usually a handful of fields.

Share the plan, not the booking

A companion needs the flight route, departure time, hotel name and the rough shape of each day. They rarely need the airline confirmation number, ticket number, loyalty number, passport details, full hotel address for a future solo stay, or a copy of the original boarding pass.

Treat every travel document as private by default. A boarding pass barcode and a booking reference are not decoration. They connect the public-facing trip to systems that may expose or change a reservation.

Safe default: share a clean itinerary view. Keep the original PDFs, photos, emails and chat in a private vault.

What Noma keeps out of a public itinerary

Noma keeps uploaded documents, document-level booking fields, Ask Noma chat and account identifiers out of its public trip response. The public view is built from the itinerary rather than by opening the private document vault to the web.

Dates and user-written itinerary details can still appear because they are part of the plan. Review them before sharing. Privacy tools should narrow the risk, not replace your judgment.

If you shared too much

  • Disable or replace the public link if the product gives you that control.
  • Contact the airline or hotel through its official site or app, not a phone number from a search ad or unsolicited message.
  • Ask the provider to change the exposed booking reference or secure the reservation when possible.
  • Remove posts containing boarding passes, barcodes or confirmation screens from social media and shared albums.
  • Watch the relevant email, loyalty and payment accounts for changes you did not make.
Inside Noma

Build a day-by-day trip while keeping documents and planning chat private.

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