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28 March 2025

AI-powered travel: How Artificial Intelligence can plan your perfect vacation

AI-powered travel: How Artificial Intelligence can plan your perfect vacation

Ever found yourself on a mundane trip, caught in a sea of tourists, and feeling like the charm of the place is fading away?

Now, imagine quaint local bakeries, secluded beaches or vibrant streets bustling with authentic conversation. It takes more than just booking a flight to create these memorable and exciting moments - it requires good research, time and lots of planning. This is where AI can step in, and help you craft a trip that you’ll remember for years.

Personalized travel made easy

Planning trips the old-fashioned way can be tedious, often involving time-consuming research and uninspired, one-size-fits-all choices. Luckily, AI-driven platforms not only provide a wider variety of options, but they can also offer personalized recommendations based on your preferences, budget, interests, and travel history.

Plan your trip with AI now

By leveraging AI, you can get custom advice on destinations and activities, as well as assistance with booking transportation and accommodation, finding the best deals, and creating flexible itineraries. This wealth of data allows you to compare options, all to ensure you fully enjoy your stay.

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Here are some top recommendations:

TripAdvisor

The TripAdvisor platform looks at user preferences, activity, and saved favorites, to provide tailored suggestions for accommodations, restaurants, and activities. With its AI trip builder feature you can create a trip based on AI recommendations tailored to you.

GuideGeek

GuideGeek is a free AI chatbot available via WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, that provides fast responses to any travel-related questions. You can plan an entire trip, with information that’s reliable and monitored by travel experts.

Aria, Opera’s AI

Aria, the AI assistant in the Opera browser, can transform your travel planning with personalized recommendations, real-time support, and itineraries based on your budget or preferences. Open Aria from Opera’s sidebar and ask, for example, “What’s the cheapest flight from here to a tropical island this week?

Chatting with Aria doesn’t require an account, so you get a personal AI travel assistant for free. If you love hiking, Aria will find the best nearby trails, or can plan a trip to the Swiss Alps, saving you hours on research. On a budget? Aria will recommend affordable destinations and low-cost attractions, helping you plan a memorable trip without breaking the bank.

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Aicotravel

Aicotravel allows you to work on AI-powered collaborative travel itineraries that emphasize ease-of-use and teamwork. It’s a perfect platform for those travelling in groups, as it lets them plan their journeys with others easily and effortlessly.

Google Maps

With the new addition of Gemini AI, Google Maps now offers travel suggestions and helps you plan your outings with advice based on real-time reviews. It also allows you to make reservations, provides route navigation and updates on weather, parking, and tolls.

Kayak

The AI-assisted Explore feature in Kayak allows you to input your budget and travel dates to get helpful destination suggestions that fit your needs. You can also play with an interactive map that helps you find the best flight deals anywhere in the world.

Hopper

Hopper uses AI to offer price tracking, notify you for the best times to book a trip, and suggest destinations based on weather or budget limits. You can use a color-coded calendar for cheap travel dates, and freeze prices for the future to not miss any deals.

Traveloka

Traveloka is a platform for booking transportation, accommodation, and attractions with promos and discounts. It uses AI to match your needs with travel options, and provides you with tailored travel packages, easy refunds, and even visa protection.

Lost in translation? Let AI help you.

One of the key benefits of AI chatbots and virtual assistants is multi-language support. There are many AI-powered translation tools on the market that provide translations in real-time, which is extremely helpful when traveling abroad. Overcoming language barriers is crucial when exploring new destinations, and now it’s easier than ever.

If you want to learn more about the many ways that AI helps break language barriers, or to get translation tool recommendations, read our article AI Translation Tools.

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The future of AI in travel and tourism

AI is transforming the travel industry, providing even greater convenience for travelers around the globe. Particularly in terms of advanced personalization, there’s a big promise of creating even more accurate experiences, tailored to our needs and preferences.

AI can be used to promote sustainable travel by suggesting eco-friendly options, such as green-certified accommodations, carbon-neutral transportation, and optimized itineraries to reduce environmental impact. It’s also capable of powering VR platforms that allow you to tour destinations virtually before spending a dime.

The future of travel is here with AI, making it easier than ever for everyone to enjoy custom holidays. With easy bookings, personalized itineraries or language help, AI makes your travel dreams a reality, and creates a journey that’s uniquely yours, every step of the way.

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