Trip.Best is an AI-powered platform by Trip.com
I’ve come to realise that unlike me, not everyone loves planning a holiday. In fact, even thinking about planning a holiday is high-key stressful and anxiety-inducing for a good number of people. Cue drumrolls, enter Trip.Best – because Trip.com’s joining the artificial intelligence fray with their very own AI-powered platform, curated based on trusted, high-quality recommendations that’ll take the planning right out of your hands.
What is Trip.Best?
If you didn’t already know, the Trip.com Group has been in business since 1999, and you will most likely have checked travel-related things like airfares, hotels, or attractions on this OTA (Online Travel Agency), as well as through Skyscanner – which belongs to the same group.
Last year, they launched Trip.Best – their very own AI-powered ranking system that features the top 100 stays, attractions, and restaurants globally. Plus, the app is available in 24 languages, across 39 countries, and accepts payments in 35 local currencies, making it a tool that’s truly accessible for all.
How are rankings determined?
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You’re forgiven for asking this question – it’s a fair one. But truthfully, Trip.Best’s top 100 lists are the result of AI-driven analysis, sourced from verified user reviews and Trip.com’s own staff who are on-the-ground teams, testing for themselves according to strict sets of criteria to determine if each spot is worthy of its Top 100 placement.
In other words, factors that contribute to each result include search- and booking-derived statistics – so there’s actual cold, hard data to back up all of the placements on any Trip.Best list. We’re talking millions of data points from users scrolling through the app, so Trip.Best is right on top of any changes in traveller preferences and desires.
What does Trip.Best do?
Trip.Best does all the hard work, removing the pain and headache of doing PhD-level research for your holiday, to gather up all of the information and sort through them, then present the top 1% to you – AKA the best – according to these parameters:
- Quality of service
- Popularity
- Reputation
- Special features
A planner that evolves through the year
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We’ve established that Trip.Best comes up with solid, data-backed recommendations. If that didn’t convince you to try planning your next trip with this platform, here’s something else that might – the lists are updated every month, with new seasonal lists that reflect the passage of time and trends.
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Take for example the Fall Viewing list, which rounds up the best spots around the world for basking in autumn foliage. Or the Destinations for the Months classification, providing inspo for those of us with perennial feelings of wanderlust.
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Then, there’s the Less Crowded list – a category where Trip.com has sussed out the best places you can visit to avoid fellow humans, regardless of where in the world you’d like to go.
How to use Trip.Best?
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All you have to do is download the Trip.com app and click on the Top Picks icon – that’s as self-explanatory as it gets.
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It’ll even compile experiences for you based on your upcoming trips, tapping on data from your previous search histories through the app, or the bookings that you’ve made, such as flights, hotels, and the like. Whether you’re looking for luxury stays, or family-friendly accommodations, Trip.Best has got you covered.
With coverage spanning more than 14,000 cities, you can be assured that Trip.Best will be able to offer recommendations beyond the basics for any trip you’ve got planned.
Using the AI trip planner tool
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For a holiday that you can sort out in a literal jiffy, the Trip.Planner that you can also access on the home page of the app allows you to make the best use of all that Trip.Best does. Put in your destination(s) and planned travel dates, then let AI do the rest of the work.
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Help the AI personalise it by selecting your preferences; what makes the itinerary uniquely yours is the option to include any other details you might want it to know while it does its job – and you could even tell it about the icks and likes of the different travellers on the trip.
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Et voila, an entire itinerary is yours, beautifully laid out to suggest the best routes, travel options and timings, stays, and more. Because it’s almost like chatting with an actual agent, you can continue to finetune, add, and remove items from the suggested itinerary – if you like.
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The planner can even come up with an estimated budget for the trip – an immensely useful function that you can use to help tweak your options.
Once you complete the plan with your intended travel dates, all you’ll have to do is click into any of the recommendations, and the dates will all be automatically selected for you to finalise the booking. If you’ve ever messed up your booking dates, you’ll know what a godsend this is.
Plan your holidays with Trip.Best
There’s no need to get yourself all stressed out whenever holiday planning is mentioned, because holidays should be fun for everyone involved. Even if you do like to put in the legwork to manually plan trips, Trip.Best’s AI planner is an undeniable boon that’s so useful to have on hand. I don’t know about you, but if it’s going to sift through millions of reviews on my behalf, I’m taking it along for the ride.
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This post was brought to you by Trip.com.
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