How do you stop being the only person planning the trip?

Short answer

Give people ownership of a piece rather than asking them to send you suggestions, and use a plan everyone can edit directly. As long as you're the only person who can update the itinerary, you'll be the only person who does.

The human-inbox problem

The default organiser becomes a bottleneck: everyone sends links and preferences, and one person manually transcribes them into the plan. That's not a personality problem, it's a structural one — and it's fixable.

Assign roles, not requests

One person owns accommodation
One owns the restaurant bookings
One owns the flight and arrival list
One owns the day trip or the big activity

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How do you stop being the only person planning the trip?

Short answer

The human-inbox problem

Assign roles, not requests

One person owns accommodation
One owns the restaurant bookings
One owns the flight and arrival list
One owns the day trip or the big activity

Set up the trip, share the link, hand out the roles — and let people do them differently to how you would. With bothways, everyone edits the same plan directly, so the itinerary fills in without passing through you.

How do you stop being the only person planning the trip?

The human-inbox problem

Assign roles, not requests

How do you stop being the only person planning the trip?

The human-inbox problem

Assign roles, not requests

Then genuinely step back

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