The fun of travel doesn’t just start when you board the plane. Your journey really begins during the planning process, where anticipation and adventure awaits you. Scoping out destinations, comparing prices and the best times to travel, planning an itinerary and getting personalized recommendations are all part of the fun — and now it’s all easier and faster to do with artificial intelligence.
Booking.com’s AI Trip Planner — as seen in the Super Bowl ad starring The Muppets — is designed to be like having a travel agent at your fingertips. It can help with research, analyzing reviews and providing tailored trip suggestions. It can even help you work out questions like: “Should I spend a month in the Mediterranean or backpack around Bali?”
An itinerary on a ski trip, provided by Booking.com’s AI Trip Planner.
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It’s good to ask follow-up questions in the chat, like “Where is Killington?” or, “Where is the best place to ski on the east coast?” Killington kept coming up so I asked it to create a customized itinerary, including places to stay and good restaurants.
You can adjust what you don’t like, then have it generate a new itinerary. For example, my first one was generic, so I asked it to be specific about the restaurants to visit and activities to do.
It’s an iterative but enjoyable process for planning travel. Booking.com’s AI Trip Planner stands out because of the platform’s many years of reviews and ratings that can inform its fast results.
