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Are AI travel tools any good?

Financial Express Kochi

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August 24, 2025

AI-powered tools can help you plan trips, squeeze value out of loyalty programmes and translate languages

- GABE CASTRO-ROOT

CREATORS OF TRAVEL technology powered by AI say their tools can make life easier by doing everything from planning a dream trip to maximizing loyalty points to telling about a cool building down the street. But can they really? The answer, after putting some of the biggest players to the test.

But there are ways to make the most of them. I got advice from experts and tested out these trip planners, as well as AI-powered tools to help stretch your hotel and airline points and translate conversations. Here's how they did.

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