AI starter kit for travel

Planning a trip involves dozens of small decisions, and AI is good at handling them quickly. Give it your dates, budget and pace, and it will sketch an itinerary, a packing list or a handful of useful phrases in seconds. Opening times and prices change, so treat its plans as a first draft and check the details before you book.

Where should I start?

If you want AI to help with travel, start with Gemini or ChatGPT – both have free plans – and try these three beginner-friendly tasks first: plan a day-by-day trip itinerary; make a packing list that fits the weather; learn key phrases before you go.

3 things to try first

Your first week

  1. Day 1: Plan a day-by-day trip itinerary – copy the prompt and fill in your details.
  2. Day 3: Make a packing list that fits the weather – try asking follow-up questions to improve the answer.
  3. Day 5: Learn key phrases before you go – save the prompts that worked for you.

Tools to start with

Before you start

  • Don't paste names, addresses, account numbers or passwords into AI tools.
  • AI can sound confident and still be wrong – check anything important.

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