CASE STUDY

AI Travel Planner — trips from intent

An intent-based travel app powered by Gemini — describe what you actually want, and get a day-by-day itinerary tailored to you. Elected best Bachelor project at ECE Paris.

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AI Travel Planner app interface

The problem

Generic travel sites give you hotels and flights — not what you actually want from a trip. “3 days in Barcelona” ignores the brief: food markets, quiet neighborhoods, sunset spots, budget constraints.

Travel planning should start with intent, not inventory.

Intent-based planning

Users write a natural-language brief — who they're traveling with, what they care about, what to avoid. Gemini interprets the intent, and SaaS APIs enrich the plan with real-world data. The output is a day-by-day itinerary, not a list of links.

Brief → structured days → actionable stops. One flow, from sentence to schedule.

Recognition

The project was elected best Bachelor project at ECE Paris — recognition that intent-based AI products can be both technically sound and genuinely useful.

My role

Team project at ECE. I focused on AI integration — Gemini orchestration, prompt design, and the product UX that turns model output into something travelers can actually follow.

Use-case screens

From trip brief to generated day cards — the interface makes AI output feel like a travel companion, not a chatbot dump.

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“5 days in Lisbon with my partner — food markets, sunset viewpoints, no tourist traps. Budget-friendly, walkable neighborhoods.”
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Trip brief — natural language in, structured intent out.
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Day 1Alfama & riverfront
  • Pastéis de Belém
  • Miradouro da Senhora do Monte
Day 2Markets & LX Factory
  • Time Out Market
  • Sunset at Ponte 25 de Abril
Day 3Coastal escape
  • Cascais day trip
  • Seafood dinner in Cais do Sodré
Generated itinerary — day-by-day cards with stops, timing, and context.
ECE Paris · Best Bachelor
Elias presenting the AI travel planner on stage at ECE
Presenting on stage at ECE — the moment the project earned best Bachelor recognition.
Elias presenting AI Travel Planner at ECE Paris

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