{"id":17868,"date":"2023-03-28T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/?p=17868"},"modified":"2023-04-05T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:06:42","slug":"using-ai-for-travel-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/using-ai-for-travel-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"AI – The future of travel planning?"},"content":{"rendered":"Approx read: <\/span> 3<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>
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Trust your trip to a bot?<\/h2>\n

Free chatbots for travel and itinerary planning<\/h3>\n

OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022 and it became the fastest-growing consumer app <\/span><\/span>in history. Since then, Big Tech has been scrambling to keep up and roll out their own chatbots. <\/span><\/span>Their pitch to users is the idea that their chatbots can help plan your future trips. It all seems <\/span><\/span>promising….. at first glance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Using chatbots to plan travel and itineraries is a logical progression. Existing behind the scenes with flight booking <\/span><\/span>services and virtual support – AI is everywhere. There are, of course, various concerns about using AI to plan travel, <\/span><\/span>one of which is the employment impact. It could replace more than 60 percent of jobs in hospitality-dominated cities <\/span><\/span>by 2035. With travel writers, agents, customer support, and concierges seen at the top of the list.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The central issue may actually relate to limitations with generative AI itself. The bots have shown a tendency to <\/span><\/span>\u201challucinate,\u201d or what most of us would call lying. Itinerary planning with chatbots means travellers need to get better <\/span><\/span>at phrasing questions. And watch out for errors, as the bots are liable to make up entire towns \u2014 and sound confident <\/span><\/span>at every turn.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to give these free travel planning AI and ChatGPT apps a go, here are the some of the most popular.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Roam Around<\/a> (Web)<\/span><\/span>
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A tool to build an itinerary for a particular city. It uses the internet\u2019s favourite new AI chat app to plan your trip. Asking <\/span><\/span>only two things: the city and how many days you will be there. It is quite a basic app and does not allow you to filter <\/span><\/span>the results. It\u2019s best to use as a starting point or reference only.<\/span><\/span>
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Vacay Chatbot<\/a> (Web)<\/span><\/span>
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Unlike Roam Around, this app has several uses. Yet, you will need to ask the right kinds of questions for the <\/span><\/span>responses you want. Their ChatGPT-powered chatbot can design a custom trip, provide inspiration on where to go <\/span><\/span>and generate recommendations for hotels, restaurants and local attractions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>Roamr<\/a> (Web)<\/span><\/span>
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This app can plan multi-city itineraries with maps and photos. It\u2019s a good app for brainstorming your plans with visual <\/span><\/span>prompts. Your itinerary comes with a short description of what you\u2019ll be doing each day with map auto-updates to <\/span><\/span>show the locations. You can also view Google photos about each point of interest. Finally, it adds a weather forecast <\/span><\/span>for your travel dates, as well as a currency conversion.<\/span><\/span>
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iPlan.AI<\/a> (Android and iOS)<\/span><\/span>
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This app works on phones and provides a full itinerary for one city at a time. It works best for popular tourist cities <\/span><\/span>and not the more obscure or off the beaten track places. Input your intended destination, how many days you will be <\/span><\/span>there and also the free time you have there and you\u2019ll receive an itinerary. You can also add if you are travelling alone, <\/span><\/span>with family, friends and your interests. The itinerary gives you maps, travel times and travel options. It\u2019s a free app but <\/span><\/span>does not currently allow for multi-city planning.<\/span><\/span>
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Curiosio<\/a> (Web)<\/span><\/span>
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Curiosio uses its own AI engine to help you plan an easy last-minute road trip. Covering loads of places, though not <\/span><\/span>everywhere, it is quite impressive. You can set options for a round trip, one way, start point, finish point, dates, <\/span><\/span>vehicle, budget and number of travellers. The AI will then give you various plans and routes for your journey. The <\/span><\/span>itinerary includes a map of the route with clickable points of interest. Curiosio is currently one of the best road trip <\/span><\/span>planners.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t rely on any of the travel planning AI apps 100%. Think of them as a template or rough guide <\/span><\/span>to plan your trip. While they are excellent tools, there are limitations to them. Out of date <\/span><\/span>databases and a certain way you need to form your questions are amongst the current issues.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Communicating with a travel expert or doing your own research will always provide a better travel <\/span><\/span>itinerary. But then…. perhaps \u201cA\u201dI would\u00a0 say that.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Trust your trip to a bot? Free chatbots for travel and itinerary planning OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022 and it became the fastest-growing consumer app in history. Since then, Big Tech has been scrambling to keep up and roll out their own chatbots. Their pitch to users is the idea that their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":17874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1294,1279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-travel-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17868"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17904,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868\/revisions\/17904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}