Skyscanner integrates ChatGPT into its travel app to help you plan your trip

UK-based Skyscanner has launched a generative synthetic intelligence (GenAI) characteristic that the corporate says can assist you curate suggestions and plan your journeys. Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT tech, the brand new Savvy Search characteristic is on the market within the Skyscanner app, which you’ll obtain totally free from the Google Play Retailer and the Apple App Retailer.

Some 44% of vacationers worldwide use AI throughout their journey planning and analysis, together with 63% within the US and 43% in India, Skyscanner stated, citing findings from its Journey Tendencies 2024 report. The corporate performed the research in August 2023 with 18,000 respondents globally. Skyscanner reaches 100 million customers monthly, processes a mean of 1 billion searches every month, and handles 67 terabytes of information every day.

One in each two vacationers worldwide entry Skyscanner with no particular vacation spot in thoughts, stated its chief product officer Piero Sierra. Pointing to the journey research, Sierra stated: “We’re now seeing AI being adopted to assist on this journey inspiration house. The subsequent logical step is to make use of the AI applied sciences now accessible to us to assist these vacationers within the discovery part of their journey planning journey.”

“Simply inform Savvy Search what sort of journey is in your thoughts, or just ask for inspiration, and you will get a curated checklist of journey suggestions powered by AI from Skyscanner’s journey knowledge,” Skyscanner stated. As an illustration, customers can immediate with a question akin to “thirtieth birthday journey with enjoyable nightlife and an important meals scene” or get suggestions for a “low-cost European metropolis break in October.” 

In response, the search characteristic will generate as much as three suggestions. You’ll then be directed to Skyscanner’s flight search part, the place you possibly can evaluate costs and choose your required flight.