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Tom's Guide
12-07-2025
- Tom's Guide
I used Perplexity AI to plan my next trip — here's how you can too
Planning a trip abroad is only as stressful as you make it. If you're tight on time and don't want to watch lengthy travel vlogs or fall down research rabbit holes, Perplexity AI is proving useful to millions of travelers. Earlier this year, Tripadvisor and Perplexity announced a partnership which gives the chatbot access to more than one billion reviews and contributions. With the right prompts you'll be able to make the most out of all that information so that instead of simply relying on suggestions written by people you don't know, you can tell Perplexity what you'd actually enjoy doing. If you're one of the 1.5 million people flying from the US to Japan this summer, why not also use AI to make your experience extra memorable? Perplexity Co-Founder Johnny Ho revealed travel is a top search category for users of his AI chatbot. It's easy to see why. With a dedicated AI travel section and a user experience that matches that of the best chatbots you've used so far, Perplexity will surely make planning your next vacation abroad a breeze. To get travel advice you'd actually want to follow using Perplexity, this is exactly what you need to do. To get started you'll want to sign in to your Perplexity account. If you don't have an account yet, you can get started for free with your existing Google or Apple accounts. Alternatively, you can register using your email address and a sign-in code will be automatically sent to your inbox. Once you're logged in, you'll want to head straight to Perplexity Travel. You can access the section using the new thread button represented by a plus symbol. Then click on the travel tab in the sidebar. In Perplexity Travel you'll have the opportunity to create your own adventure or let yourself be inspired by a curated selection of travel guides. To access one of the ready-made pieces, scroll down to the Trending Destinations and Inspiration sections and click on your desired experience. If you've already made up your mind about where you want to travel to and want to create your own custom guide, then this is where the prompt box comes in. Like all other major Chatbots, simply type in your prompt and click submit. One way to use Perplexity Travel is to ask it to act as a boutique travel agent. In this way, it will ask you relevant questions that will help it create a travel itinerary that you'd actually enjoy. An example of a prompt you can use is: You are a boutique travel agent focused on curating immersive cultural travel experiences. You will be creating a 7-day itinerary for a young couple visiting Tokyo for the first time. They don't speak Japanese. Create a short list of questions that will help you plan an experience they'd truly enjoy. Once you've had a chat with Perplexity about your interests and special requests, you can request a curated itinerary which includes tips about accommodation, food, and transport. Perplexity started by recommending a hotel and it went on to provide me with a 7-day itinerary. It suggested morning, afternoon, and evening activities along with restaurant options. If you're curious to know where Perplexity Travel is basing its recommendations on, you'll find a handy list of sources you can browse through. For my Tokyo guide I saw that it was pulling information from all the right places including Tripadvisor, Viator, and Expedia. This information is available in the sources tab. For a more precise look at how Perplexity handled your request, you can even have a look at the steps it took to create your travel plan. It shows how the information was obtained, along with the search queries it used. To view all this, simply click on the steps tab. Now you've learned how to use Perplexity as your own travel agent, why not take a look at our other useful AI articles? Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Check out I tested 5 custom GPTs — skip the rest and try these today and you're not using ChatGPT right unless you ask these 4 questions. And if you're interesting in creating the best images in Gemini, don't miss this article.
South China Morning Post
25-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong security firm's coming closure ‘not a warning sign for industry'
The impending closure of one of Hong Kong's leading security firms does not sound the alarm about a wave of industry shutdowns, trade representatives have said, while staff shortages remain a challenge for businesses. Johnny Ho Kai-man, chairman of the Chamber of Security Industry, told the Post that the closure of CNT Security Company could be described as a 'glorious winding up'. Ho said the company was respected in the industry and that it did its due diligence by laying out a road map for its expected closure next April. 'The termination of contracts with its clients and staff was done gradually to reduce the impact on them,' he said. 'Compared with the recent waves of business closures in which some companies just pulled the shutters on customers and staff suddenly, this is considered legally responsible.' The firm, chaired by a retired senior police officer, will cease operations before next April, with more than 2,000 employees expected to be laid off.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI-powered Analytics Platform, Unwrap, Secures Series A to Redefine Customer Intelligence
Customers Microsoft, Oura, Lyft, and Perplexity are saving 4+ hours per week by automating customer feedback analysis SANTA BARBARA, Calif., January 30, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unwrap, the AI-powered customer intelligence platform, today announced its $12 million Series A to help companies better understand their customers. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Atlassian Ventures, Cercano, ScOp VC, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, David Singleton (former CTO of Stripe), Johnny Ho (co-founder of Perplexity), and others. Unwrap will use the new funding to expand sales and engineering to support product development and company growth. Rory O'Driscoll, Partner at Scale Venture Partners and investor in Box, DocuSign, and Bill, will join the board. Customer intelligence is a "forever problem" meaning companies will always want to better understand their customers. Today, most companies receive feedback across a variety of channels, from social media, ticketing systems, survey tools, phone calls, community forums, etc. These comments contain invaluable information like product shortcomings, competitive gaps, and churn risks. Aggregating data sources and identifying key insights that move the needle for a business is a challenge many product teams spend hundreds of manual hours on today. Given the scale and messy nature of this feedback, this analysis is impossible without automation. Unwrap has created a platform that automatically tags and prioritizes key patterns of feedback without requiring input from the Unwrap user, with an approach the company calls "zero-shot" insights. This approach addresses a long-standing challenge in understanding customers: identifying issues that you can't search for because you're unaware of their existence. The platform then routes these insights to the appropriate decision-maker so they can take the actions that matter most. Today, Unwrap supports companies across a wide range of industries including software, hardware, and retail. "Unwrap takes the manual work of getting insights from unstructured customer feedback and automates it, figuring out the themes and priorities that matter most to customers and can easily translate into making their products better," said O'Driscoll, Partner at Scale Venture Partners and Unwrap Board Member. "This team's combination of technical experience and obsessive drive to improve how we use customer intelligence will bring the value of AI directly to companies so everyone can build better relationships with their customers." "Every company wants to better understand their customers. If you improve your understanding - whether it's what they love about your product, or what's driving them to a competitor - you can build better products and move the metrics you care about most. And by leveraging AI to listen and respond to customers at scale, our platform enables companies to understand and engage with each customer as if they were the only one, even when managing over 100 million customers," said Ryan Millner, Unwrap co-founder and CEO. "Our ultimate goal is to fill the world with products people love, and we believe unlocking the value stored within customer feedback is the first step." Unwrap cofounders Ryan Millner and Ashwin Singhania have been working together for 11 years, starting as early employees at Graphiq, a semantic knowledge graph startup which was acquired by Amazon Alexa in 2017. At Alexa they led product and engineering teams that built the platform answering the majority of Alexa Q&A queries. The team founded Unwrap as it became evident that emerging AI technology was forever changing how companies listen to their customers. To learn more, visit ABOUT UNWRAP Unwrap is the leader in AI-powered customer intelligence, revolutionizing customer feedback. Founded in 2022 by former Amazon Alexa leaders Ryan Millner (CEO) and Ashwin Singhania (CTO), Unwrap uses advanced AI to extract insights from unstructured text—unlocking a historically untapped data source. Customers across verticals, including Lyft, jetBlue, Perplexity, Microsoft, and Oura, use Unwrap to surface and prioritize feedback. For more information, visit View source version on Contacts Ryan Millnerryan@ Sign in to access your portfolio
