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An AI powered personal travel assistant

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Re: An AI powered personal travel assistant

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phinnaeus wrote: post #3

In reality, is this different from a site like Kayak other than interacting with it via email message as opposed to web browser UI? What exactly is a "personal travel profile" ?

Thanks for the feedback, from talking to frequent travellers, we realised they often have preferences like preferred airlines, airports, flight time and such information.

Our aim is to learn this information based on their travel history which forms the personal travel profile. The travel profile also consists of biodata information.

This helps PAs/EAs save time on time spent incorporating user preferences when searching on traditional flight comparison engines. The difference is that it reduces the clutter on generic platforms and presents you with what you will be most interested in.

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plg wrote: post #2

bet you could get better service using an offshore (or not) online personal assistant (i.e. a real human)

Thanks for your comment, yes you can save time by getting humans to conduct the search for you. However, we believe assigning the search and filtering process to humans is inefficient especially as regards time spent. Abstracting that process will provide time for other more important tasks that cannot be done by machines.

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kator wrote: post #7

It's hard to beat: https://www.google.com/flights/ I travel a lot and it doesn't take much time to figure out the right schedule including stuff like +/-X days and length of stay etc.

very true, google is doing a lot of work in that space. However, the additional advantage we have is that we manage group bookings for businesses which means no repeated filling of forms by the support staffs. The current model often involves a lot of back and forth between travellers and the travel agencies or company travel department. Our service will significantly reduce this since the preferences of each traveller is known.

thanks for the feedback

Re: An AI powered personal travel assistant

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Post by pelumi »

bartkappenburg wrote: post #4
plg wrote: post #2

bet you could get better service using an offshore (or not) online personal assistant (i.e. a real human)

I'm the founder of https://www.voyando.com , this does exactly what you've mentioned: asking real humans to search for you.

hey, thanks for the feedback. Voyando looks cool, great job! At http://travel.ai.instapage.com/ our aim is to delegate the search process to machines so that humans can spend their time on other tasks that machines cannot handle effectively.

Our service can be useful for Voyando as well. Let me know if you're interested in discussing this further. You can reach me on lumzor [at] gmail dot com.

Thanks

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