Dreaming of going on holiday but not sure where to go? Increasingly the answer – and how to get there, what to eat and where to stay – will come from advanced AI, rather than your old-school travel agent.
Start-up Mindtrip’s generative AI can craft a tailor-made itinerary in seconds from a simple text prompt, with suggestions for hotels, restaurants, sightseeing and activities.
New travel-focused start-ups like Mindtrip, Vacay and Navan are using AI to muscle in on the tourism market. Photo: Shutterstock
After picking out their favourite options, travellers can have every step of the trip reserved in the app – or on partner websites that open directly to the relevant page.
“Instead of going to Google and you do one search, and then you do another … you can actually just get into everything,” Mindtrip chief executive Andy Moss said.
Similar tourism-focused start-ups include Vacay, while others like Navan are taking on the business travel market.