My wife just planned an 18-day Egyptian itinerary to take in Cairo and Luxor, the Valley of the Kings, a Nile River cruise and a trip to Siwa Oasis, amid the dunes in Egypt’s remote Western Desert. She asked ChatGPT to design an itinerary with a daily budget of less than $400 a head, with the focus on immersive, culturally rich travel with a strong storytelling component. From go to whoa it was wrapped up in under five minutes. “If we’d done this ourselves it would have taken half a day and we’d be shouting at one another,” she said. And she’s right.
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