{"id":211762,"date":"2025-06-25T00:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211762\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T00:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:36:12","slug":"can-an-ai-travel-agent-remove-the-stress-of-vacation-booking-i-tried-three-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211762\/","title":{"rendered":"Can an AI travel agent remove the stress of vacation booking? I tried three to find out"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate booking vacations. For some, I’m sure it’s an exciting process that’s all part of the fun; for me, it’s anything but. Endless hours of research, figuring out transit between activities and parsing through countless customer reviews sounds a bit too close than the day-to-day logistics of my job, so I’ll take any opportunity to lighten the load.<\/p>\n

Typically, that involves me going on a lot of guided tours and package holidays. But for my most recent vacation, I wanted to try something a little different \u2013 enter AI.<\/p>\n

As part of our latest video series ‘AI planned it’, as you might guess, we allowed AI to decide everything from our destination to our itinerary; we even took AI on vacation with us in the form of three flagship phones; the iPhone 16 Pro<\/a>, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra<\/a> and the Google Pixel 9 Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Watch the full episode below.<\/p>\n

We booked our vacation itinerary using AI travel agents \u2013 here\u2019s where it sent us – YouTube
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As part of our testing, we used three very different AI travel agents to help us book our activities.<\/p>\n

First up was TripAdvisor, a known name in online travel booking with a sprawling database of customer travel reviews. Said data comes in pretty handy when it comes to TripAdvisor’s AI assistant, providing the backbone of the service that uses OpenAI<\/a>‘s generative AI technology to deliver customized itineraries for travelers.<\/p>\n

Next up was Vacay, which also uses OpenAI’s GPT models to deliver personalized itineraries; it doesn’t seem as though they have trained the AI much with their own acquired data, but it’s a fun free option that offers a broader range of formats and interfaces for planning your vacation compared to TripAdvisor.<\/p>\n

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Lastly, we used Layla.AI, the only paid option in our experiment. It’s challenging to find what models underpin Layla, with data fed in from Skyscanner and Booking.com.<\/p>\n

When it actually came to testing, the differences between these platforms became even more stark; and not just because Layla.AI ended up disappointing despite requiring a subscription to even try the platform. Of course, you’ll have to watch the full video to find out why…<\/p>\n

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