Planning a vacation should, in theory, be fun. But drawing up a list of activities for a trip can also be time-consuming and stressful, particularly if you don’t know where to begin. Luckily tech companies have been competing to create tools that can help you to do just that.
Travel has become one of the most popular use cases for AI that Google, Microsoft and OpenAI like to point to in demos, and firms like Tripadvisor, Expedia, and Booking.com have started to launch AI-powered vacation planning products too. While AI agents that can manage the entire process of planning and booking your vacation for you , the current generation of AI tools are still pretty handy at helping you with various tasks, like creating itineraries for trips or brushing up on your language skills.
AI models are prone to making stuff up, which means you should always double-check their suggestions yourself. But they can still be a really useful resource. Read on for some ideas for how AI tools can help to make your time away that little bit easier—leaving you with more time to enjoy yourself.
First thing’s first: you have to choose where to travel to. The beauty of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT is that they’re trained on vast swathes of the internet, meaning they can quickly condense information that would take a human hours to research into simple paragraphs. This makes them great tools to help draw you up a list of places you’d be interested in going—the more specific you can.