AI Trip Planning in 10 Minutes – Step-by-Step for Your Best Holiday — Transcript

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1. 0:00AI trip planning could be the smartest way for  you to plan your next holiday but can you really
2. 0:06trust AI getting the best result for you? In  this video you'll see how to use Chat GPT to
3. 0:14plan your perfect trip for free with no apps no  subscription and no tech skills required. My name
4. 0:21is Michael i'm a New Zealand travel designer  with decades of trip planning experience
5. 0:26in three simple steps I'll show you how to combine  AI with realworld travel knowhow to create a truly
6. 0:34memorable New Zealand holiday so let's get started!  So this is what we're going to do - we will review
7. 0:41two itineraries one created through AI with Chat  GPT, against a handcrafted professional sample
8. 0:49travel plan by a local expert - myself, For this  test we'll use a 14-day North and South Island
9. 0:56New Zealand itinerary. We then review the results  and point out things going right and where AI
10. 1:04still falls short then we'll review on how you  can use AI to plan a trip that actually works
11. 1:11in the real world with the amazing efficiencies  AI offers. This will be a game-changer on how you plan
12. 1:19travel into the future so stay around this video  as each step is important so this is what we're
13. 1:25going to do we'l log into Chat GPT you can create  an account it's completely free of charge then
14. 1:32we add a text prompt to get a result from Chat GPT  so here's the prompt please provide a New Zealand
15. 1:40travel itinerary for the North and South Island  for 14 days - couple - the first time to New Zealand
16. 1:46we want to do a self-drive holiday about interests  we want to see as much as possible but we don't
17. 1:52want the experience stress etc etc travel dates  locations into New Zealand st of November. You can
18. 2:00download this prompt in the description box below  now let's have a look what Chat GPT comes up with
19. 2:07for your first result but here's where things  getting interesting because this AI generated
20. 2:13trip might look good on paper but in the real  world not so much now we have our first result
21. 2:20from Chat GPT and I want to go through day by day  to give you my feedback on that so we have day
22. 2:27one and two Auckland and Waiheke Island that is fine  then day three four Rotorua that is fine too though
23. 2:35the driving time sometimes you need to be careful  that could be a little bit longer 10-15% normally
24. 2:41you have to add with Google maps then you have  one night day five in Taupo - most likely you could
25. 2:49spend two nights there and do a day trip into the  Tongariro National Park so that's fine but then you
26. 2:56have a drive right down to Wellington again the  driving time could easily be longer than 4 and a
27. 3:03half hours then take the ferry to Picton. Again you  know you have to check in 3 and 1/2 hours on the
28. 3:10ferry you need to keep in mind that sometimes the  ferries are cancelled or delayed so then you have
29. 3:18here one night in Kaikoura, one night in Christchurch  I generally recommend to have as much as possible
30. 3:25two nights at each location to have a much more  balanced itinerary really then you travel down to
31. 3:33Lake Tekapo and you obviously stay two nights you  have uh the day you arrive and then the next day
32. 3:39you do a day trip into Mount Cook National Park it  doesn't make much sense really to change again the
33. 3:45accommodation, you would rather stay two nights  and then you go down to Queenstown and one night
34. 3:52is a bit light because that Queenstown area is um  very popular lots to do and also you totally miss
35. 3:59the Fiordland National Park. So here are some other  suggestions on accommodation tour recommendations
36. 4:05and trips so that's what we have so far now let's  refine this itinerary template we received with a
37. 4:13little bit more detail and a little bit more  local knowledge. Still with me? Now we've done
38. 4:20the basics soon we'll dive into ways on how to  combine the best of the two worlds so what we're
39. 4:26now doing is we're adding some more prompts  again you can download these prompts in the
40. 4:34description box below so we're using a sample  itinerary with location services rental car
41. 4:41etc we're using uh existing web links we want to  use recommended stops on the itinerary we want
42. 4:49to have daily timing we want to have Google  map links and text description in between
43. 4:56uh each location. so what we're now doing this is  crucial! Again you can download this in the box
44. 5:02below. We will add now a PDF file which provides  us with that kind of local knowledge we want for
45. 5:11this tailor-made itinerary for yourself. If you  find this video helpful you may want to hit the
46. 5:19subscribe button below to stay in touch for more  helpful travel videos to come. Now it's coming back
47. 5:25with a question let me know if you want that  preference as above and yes we want and let's
48. 5:31start with day one start with day one so what you  see now it's started to implement that information
49. 5:40from the PDF so we have hotel links we have a  bit of description we have suggestions on what
50. 5:47you can do there again there are tour links there  are ferry links and dinner suggestions and also
51. 5:56timing so which is really handy. What we're going  to do now is we instruct Chat GPT to provide us with a
52. 6:03full 14-day itinerary you basically just want to  give those prompts as you would talk to somebody
53. 6:10it's not like in Google but you provide Chat GPT  with the next steps what it should do so let's see
54. 6:16what it comes up with and now we have actually the  complete day 1 to 14 either as a spreadsheet here
55. 6:23or as a text document it shows actually what it's  done so we have the daily route and destinations
56. 6:30we have the accommodation listed by stars we  have top tours and activities with links we
57. 6:35have the Google maps and each for each day and we  have scenic highlights and spots along the way we
58. 6:42can now ask Chat GPT to provide the itinerary as a  word document let's do that first now we have here
59. 6:48the word document downloaded let's have a quick  look into it. So we have here an outline with the
60. 6:54days we got the locations we got the accommodation  options we got the links for the tours so it's all
61. 7:02very nicely laid out and you can use this as it is  again the key advantage here and I'll go through
62. 7:08the itinerary quickly is that you're combining AI  with local knowledge so what we have here is we
63. 7:18have Auckland you have uh one night in Auckland only  you stay in whatever accommodation you want to stay
64. 7:24and then you head down from Auckland to Waitomo and  to Rotorua which actually saves you quite a bit of
65. 7:33um time in respect of visiting locations you  can do that like the Hamilton Gardens you can
66. 7:39do Ruakuri Blackwater etc etc so you can also check  all the itinerary on the PDF provided which is
67. 7:48basically the same itinerary: two nights location  in Rotorua depends if you want to go Tongariro then
68. 7:56you would stay in Taupo but then you actually  fly down to Queenstown and drive directly to
69. 8:02Te Anau so you're not having those many one night  stays you want to stay as much as possible for
70. 8:09two nights as mentioned before then a day trip  to uh Fiordland then you head into yeah into
71. 8:17Milford Sound basically then from Te Anau  you go back to Queenstown then you can start
72. 8:23exploring and you have a couple of nights in  Queenstown again here are the links for what
73. 8:27you can do that means you have a little bit  more time it's less driving especially with
74. 8:33the domestic flights we have included then  we're heading up the west coast to Franz Josef
75. 8:40then we head over to Punakaiki and we head over to  the Nelson-Tasman region. From the Nelson-Tasman
76. 8:49region we can then either fly back to Auckland  if you want to spend a little bit more time in
77. 8:54the South Island in the southern parts or you can  go like with this itinerary you can go to Kaikoura
78. 9:02uh through Blenheim and that makes perfect sense  uh in respect of having two nights there again you
79. 9:08can do Whale Watch etc and then you drive down to  Christchurch so if you look at the map this makes
80. 9:15actually perfect sense and from Christchurch you  can either take your international flight out of
81. 9:20New Zealand or you can fly back to um Auckland  and connect with your international flight. So
82. 9:27this is a really cool way of combining that local  knowledge we provide with the sample itineraries
83. 9:34and using Chat GPT, so by using the prompts we put  in there you can actually design your itinerary
84. 9:43in a matter of minutes really so and you can have  the confidence that this itinerary will actually
85. 9:50work. Now if you prefer to have this itinerary  as an outline then we can also provide that
86. 9:57um command to Chat GPT and let's have a look  what it's doing: so here we see that we can now
87. 10:03download an Excel file so let's do that so here's  our Excel file we can obviously increase the size
88. 10:09a little bit to make it a bit more visible let's  put the font up a bit more and then we basically
89. 10:16can do a little bit of work here but at the end  of the day you will get all the details we have
90. 10:24on Chat GPT based on the itinerary provided the  sample itinerary provided with links and all the
91. 10:32details you need to know. Now that's a trip  I'll put my name onto and yes AI was helpful
92. 10:38but the magic is to combine what practically  already works in travel with AI. So here's what
93. 10:46I recommend :use AI for the basics like route  outlines or brainstorming activities work with
94. 10:52a real-world travel itinerary template to refine  your plan check everything drive times seasonal
95. 11:00access availability also use local knowledge  things like staying two to three nights at key
96. 11:07locations to avoid travel stress now after you  have a solid plan you also want to check when
97. 11:14is the best time to travel to New Zealand and  learn about the seasons so check out this video
98. 11:19up here to get your trip perfect. Thanks very  much for watching see you in the next video!