The joy of traveling, made easier with AI
The happiness of setting off on a trip is often accompanied by a headache when resources or preparation are lacking. To help you make the most of your vacation, our editorial team presents its Top 5 mobile applications using recognition and artificial intelligence (AI), designed for travelers and tourists.
1. To Save Money
Hopper allows you to book a flight, a hotel, or even a car in a more reliable and flexible way than most similar apps on the market. It uses AI to predict flight prices with 95% accuracy, up to a year in advance. You can monitor a trip directly from the app and receive a notification at the optimal time to buy. Hopper also offers a guarantee plan that lets you rebook at no extra cost if you miss your flight.
2. To Plan an Itinerary
Routeperfect is a tool that helps you better plan your itinerary based on multiple destinations, modes of transportation, events, and deals. Ideal for travel in Europe, the app provides recommendations based on popular routes and other users’ preferences, while also taking your own expectations into account.
3. To Take Your Mind Off Things and Feel Less Alone
Are you traveling alone, with insecurities and a fear of flying resurfacing, and no one to talk to—neither at the airport nor before takeoff? If you have a stable internet connection, your friend ChatGPT, the king of AI chatbots, can keep you company and hold a conversation with you for hours without wearing you out!
4. For Tourism
Blippar and PlantSnap combine AI and augmented reality to help you get the most out of your sightseeing and explorations. From now on, when you take out your phone to snap a selfie in front of a well-known landmark, your camera can use Blippar to analyze the monument and identify it using a database of the world’s most famous buildings. And for those who prefer more exotic, less urban walks, there’s PlantSnap—an app that works on the same principle and allows you to identify over 316,000 plant species you encounter, while teaching you about their specific characteristics. That’s what we call combining usefulness with pleasure!
5. To Translate Street Signs
You’re strolling through a city in a country where you don’t understand or read the language well and struggle to grasp the meaning of the messages displayed on signs? No need to panic. Whether you’re connected to the internet or not, with the Google Translate app, all you have to do is open your phone’s camera and point it at the sign you want to translate. Google will instantly provide a translation in your language, among 59 languages available offline, or 94 with an internet connection.