Your Next Vacation Starts in a Chat: TripAdvisor Debuts App Inside ChatGPT

You may already use artificial intelligence for planning vacations, but now you can use a new TripAdvisor app inside of ChatGPT to book hotels. The app puts TripAdvisor's reviews and hotel insights directly into ChatGPT. It's "a new AI-powered way to experience the best of TripAdvisor," according to the travel company. 

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Using the app, trip planners can see top-rated TripAdvisor hotels on an interactive map. They can also read TripAdvisor review summaries, access details about hotels, including images and amenities, and refine results with conversational follow-ups.

Once a would-be traveler selects a hotel, they'll see available deals from booking sites. When they choose one, they will be redirected to TripAdvisor or one of its partners to complete the booking.

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The new app is available to logged-in ChatGPT users in the US on Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans. You can start using it by opening ChatGPT, navigating to Settings, then Apps & Connectors, and Browse Apps and connect to TripAdvisor. (You should only have to follow these steps once.)  Then, and on subsequent visits, simply start your message in ChatGPT with the word TripAdvisor.