How are you using AI for trip planning? | Question of the Week Ep7 | 6-27-26

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Hosts discuss using AI for trip planning, highlighting its strengths in summarizing information and generating recommendations, while cautioning about inaccuracies in real-time data and the need for verification.

Key takeaways

• AI excels at quickly analyzing large amounts of data for trip planning.
• AI can offer personalized recommendations but struggles with real-time updates.
• Users must verify AI suggestions, especially for time-sensitive details.

Transcript preview

This is a VoI Escape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voy escape.com. This week's question of the week. How are you using AI for trip planning? had availability between August and December, it gave the useful and seemingly accurate response. Have you recently found any other good uses of builds or other AIs? I thought this was a great question because AI is obviously a hot topic and people ask about it a lot. I think more often I get asked about it in the context of if I think it will replace what we do with frequent Myler writing about credit cards and things. And so I think actually before I even get into how I use it, I think, I think, I would just say that that's not a major concern for me I don't know I'll be curious to hear your your perspective on that before we even get into how we're using it but I think AI has some really good strength some things that I've used it for that have been great I think it's greatest strength is to look through a massive amount of information quickly and give you the key highlights it's not as good at things that are new like if there's a new promotion out and it doesn't exist on the internet as widely as struggles a little bit with finding the latest information and reporting that kind of latest information. Also, it can't do particularly well at real world experience necessarily. It can kind of put together other people's real world experience. But if you're trying something out to see, will I actually earn points on this or will I be able to stack this deal? It probably isn't as good at those types of things. So I think that it may come for us eventually, but I think it's out there a waste into the future. So I'm not nervous about that. Are you're Yeah, no, I, you know, it's a long ways out before it can do the type of stuff we talk about correctly. So it's really good at, yeah, sounding correct, but it often gets things very wrong. In fact, we had someone right in saying that they used AI to recommend which cards to use for different situations and I know Stephen looked through that and found a bunch of inaccurate statements about what this person was told by AI to do. And so it'll be a while before can get that correct that correct that correct, but. Ultimately, I think, I think that our audience is interested too in our opinions about, you know, which things are best and so on. And so I'm not worried about, you know, the frequent-myler business as far as AI goes, but I think it is getting better and better and there's more and more uses specifically for travel planning, I think is really exciting what's possible to do with it today. Yeah, so let's talk about how we're using it. So, let's talk about how we're using it. So, let's talk about how we're using it's like I said I find it really good at combing through a lot of information really quickly and it's stuff that I could do on my own but it would take me much longer than it takes AI to do so for instance we're planning a trip to region in Switzerland that has a bunch of alpine coasters or we were planning it anyway we ended up having to cancel this but in that in the planning stages I asked a lot about what are the best alpine coasters what about for younger kids what about for somebody with limited mobility walking to the coasters like that AI is really good at being able to give answers that again I could have found with enough searching but would have taken me much longer than I did and only took a few seconds to ask that type of stuff and restaurant recommendations. Restaurant recommendations very similar I've been pretty impressed with Gemini in particular for restaurant recommendations for being able to drill down on things like okay which of these recommendations would be the best if we're going with kids and Gemini is great at identifying oh this place has a kids menu or even I've been I've been impressed when it said, well they don't have a dedicated kids menu but they do have some options like macaroni and cheese or this or that that are generally popular with kids so it's good at identifying that type of thing and again I could do that one by one but I can save a lot of time by letting an AI tool kind of narrow that down for me so I think it's good for that it's been good for us for identifying playground actually because we when we travel we like to hit up a playground every day or two to give the kids a chance to let off steam I've talked about But it's really helpful to be able to just have a conversation with AI, whether that's Gemini or I've used the meta AI with my Ray-Ban Metas