Travel Planner

The home page (form) of the website.
The results page (suggested activities) of the website.

Inspiration

Inspired by the theme of 'When Worlds Collide' and Booking.com's challenge, 'Experience the World', we set about building something to help people plan trips. The idea being that they are exposed to the culture (other worlds) of the place they're going to, while also suggesting things they're likely to enjoy based on their interests.

What it does

Asks the user some questions about where they intend to go and what their interests are. The AI will then make some suggestions about activities they can do in that destination.

How we built it

The backend is written in Go, using Gemini's API. There is also a Python backend for interacting with Unsplash's API. The frontend is written in HTML and JavaScript.

AI tools (such as Google API Studio and ChatGPT) were used to quickly answer questions and make a start on the software.

Challenges we ran into

We probably took too long to come up with the idea, and the limited time to complete the project in the Hackathon meant we didn't have as much time as would have been ideal.