Many of us love ChatGPT! Its service with not just link to where I can find the information but actually give it to me makes life so much easier. In an earlier post I have posted about what you need to think on when you makes your travel plans. And even if this still is true ChatGPT can help you on the research and day to day program.
How to use ChatGPT
By asking follow up questions to ChatGPT you can get really good schedule. For example I will visit Hanoi now in September and need some advise what to do. My first question to ChatGPT is What is there to see in Hanoi? A few seconds later I will have an answer
The answers looks good to me. But I’m not interested in the water park. So I Ask ChatGPT to tell me more about the sites it suggested but take a way the water park. After a few seconds I get a little more information and I can decide if its worth to see.
The list looks really good but I heard about a train street in Hanoi that looks cool. So let’s see if ChatGPT can manage that in to a three day schedule for me.
And there it is. From knowing nothing about Hanoi I know have an idea for a three day schedule. This is such a good way to plan your traveIs so I can’t understand how guide books will survive in the future.
At your travel agency
As you maybe have understood I love to plan my own trips and advice others to do so as well. Even if ChatGPT can help us, its still such a joy and part of the journey to plan it. However I do understand that not al have the same time and interest as me to do it. Someone who have understood this is the German travel company TUI, who now will integrate ChatGPT to their app directed to their British customer. Their idea is that the customers should look up whatt they want too see just as I did and then buy guided tours from them. However Im not sure this is a business model that will work. Because if I know what to see I can easily find my way to the sites my self using Google maps.
So in my humble opinion ChatGPT and Tripadvisor have made the traditional guide book out of date. The guiding industry will still have a value. But only if the guides can bring stories, answer questions and show hidden gems that cant be found at the net. The human value so to speak.