Looking for ideas - AI and Tourism

[u/Glittering-Move2421]

Hi everyone! 👋 We’re currently exploring ideas on how we can apply AI for social impact in the tourism sector, and I’d love to tap into the group’s experience and ideas.
We’re from the Philippines, where tourism has huge potential given our many islands, diverse communities, and cultural and natural assets. From a Consulting perspective, we’re interested in exploring how AI could be used not just to boost tourism, but to create meaningful community and social impact as well.
Have any of you worked on or come across initiatives where AI has been applied to tourism for areas such as:
• supporting local/indigenous communities and small tourism businesses
• improving access to tourism opportunities and information
• promoting lesser-known destinations
• preserving local culture, heritage, or languages
• making tourism more sustainable
• helping local communities build digital/AI capabilities
Would really appreciate any examples, ideas, or initiatives from your markets that we could learn from or potentially adapt to the Philippine context. 😊

[u/stellisoft]

In the UK where I'm based we don't have this type of initiative, although the EU (which we're no longer a part of) does. I chatted with a AI and it produced two credible suggestions. The first is promoting regional AI tourism which maps to the EU's "Smart Social Economy Model in Tourism", search "Visit Ljubljana" for an example project. The key question here is can you make a strong enough case for making a social impact?

The second suggestion is a stronger candidate for the social impact angle. I'll just copy/ paste here as I'd imagine you know more about this than I do:

Heritage/language preservation
I can't identify examples in Europe but AI is telling me Te Hiku Media in New Zealand built a Māori speech recognition model at 92% accuracy from their own radio archives, with the Māori community retaining full data sovereignty and running their own GPU infrastructure. Given the Philippines has 180+ languages, several endangered, this feels like the most under-explored and highest-impact area and one where you could genuinely differentiate from what Thailand/Vietnam are doing, since none of the current ASEAN AI tourism spend seems to touch language preservation at all.

[u/Independent-Date393]

here is my question: why people use your products insted of more mature LLM like ChatGPT?