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Notes on AI, travel, and the things in between
Field notes from the team building Waydone — how AI is reshaping the travel industry, how we think about it, and what we've learned along the way.
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How AI is rewriting trip planning in 2026
The old way of planning a trip is dying — fifteen tabs, scattered PDFs, half-translated booking pages. Here is the new landscape, where AI helps, where humans still win, and why hybrid wins.
Best AI travel planner in 2026: dedicated planners vs general chatbots
How to choose the best AI travel planner: what a dedicated trip-planning agent does that a general chatbot cannot, the criteria that matter, and a checklist to test any tool before you trust it with a real trip.
Inside Waydone's AI: planning trips without training on your prompts
A short, honest look at how the Waydone AI builds an itinerary, what data leaves your account, and why we have a contractual no-training commitment with our providers.
From inspiration to boarding pass: a tour of the Waydone smart wallet
A walkthrough of how a real trip flows through Waydone — from the first spark of an idea on the Explore feed, to a day-by-day plan, to the wallet where every ticket and reservation waits for you.
AI for travel agencies: how Waydone scales the human touch
Travel agencies do not need to be replaced by AI — they need to be amplified by it. Here is how Waydone for Agencies lets a small team handle more clients without sacrificing the relationships that make agencies special.
5 mistakes travelers make with AI itineraries (and how to avoid them)
AI travel assistants are excellent drafting partners and dangerous if you treat them as oracles. Five very common ways to misuse them, with the fix for each.