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Airbnb's new 'Icons', AI Travel Planning, and the future of Experiences
Airbnb's new 'Icons', AI Travel Planning, and the future of Experiences
By Mitch Bach
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A small initiative to help change the group travel industry.
A small initiative to help change the group travel industry.
By Mitch Bach
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How can you make sure your travel services are accessible for clients from different cultures?
When thinking about cultural respect from the position of planning travel, you need to understand your own blindspots and assumptions about traveling to a particular destination, the perspective of your clients, and of course most importantly what's appropriate for where you're traveling to. Using on the ground partners who are the authentic storytellers and place ambassadors is step 1; you should think about travel planning as partnership building with locals, and not becoming a non-local fake 'expert' on everywhere. New travel planners should learn how to place limits on clients' requests, and when to say no, which can be very difficult.
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How can you create a memorable travel experience?
Document, but don't over-document. Learn to take fewer photos, but make them count. Consider purchasing an analog camera (like the popular Polaroid ones) and decide you're only going to take 10 photos that day. Or 5. Or 1. Each photo will become more meaningful, and you'll find that your memory pays more care to actually experiencing the moment when you're not just spending that moment recording it for the future you.
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How can you create a memorable travel experience?
Stop planning. We've all bought into the over-planning madness, and it's killing the joy of serendipitous discovery. Travel memories are made from emotions, the most powerful of which are ones like surprise and awe. When we've looked at 800 reviews and 4,000 photos of a place or a restaurant, we're just setting ourselves up for disappointment. Stop thinking everything on your trip needs to be "the best"—that's an invented category by blogs and magazines. Make your travel experience about discovery. Of course it's important to make some reservations and have a structure, but don't let the overplanning suffocate the trip. Create space for simply wandering. Wake up, and get excited for what a totally unknown day will hold for you.
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I’m so proud of this and working with my business partner Nicolas Jacquart - after 10 years working (with a pandemic in between) it’s amazing to see…
I’m so proud of this and working with my business partner Nicolas Jacquart - after 10 years working (with a pandemic in between) it’s amazing to see…
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Today, we introduce an exceptional leader who has reached new heights in the tourism sector - one of the founders of Your Tours Portugal and Co-CEO…
Today, we introduce an exceptional leader who has reached new heights in the tourism sector - one of the founders of Your Tours Portugal and Co-CEO…
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Researchers from Google's DeepMind, Jigsaw, and Google.org units are warning us in a paper that Generative AI is now a significant danger to the…
Researchers from Google's DeepMind, Jigsaw, and Google.org units are warning us in a paper that Generative AI is now a significant danger to the…
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