It could have been the scariest night of her life. Instead, it was a travel story for the ages
It could have been the scariest night of her life. Instead, it was a travel story for the ages
Publish Date: 2026-01-31 07:00:00
Source Domain: www.cnn.com
This week in travel news: Australian travelers descended on an imaginary tourist attraction, a woman recalls the night she unexpectedly bunked with a pair of traveling nuns, and the turning point for REAL ID has arrived.
Hundreds of tourists are flocking to hot springs in a small town in Tasmania, Australia. However, there was one small wrinkle in their trip planning. The hot springs are actually an AI “hallucination” that erroneously appeared on a travel advice website and was widely shared before people figured out what was happening.
We tested ChatGPT travel advice in five cities
CNN Travel team members in five major cities around the world asked ChatGPT to create trips for them. Watch how we tested the itineraries to help you use the most popular LLM (large language models) for travel planning more effectively. To learn more about our experiment, read the full report.
We tested ChatGPT travel advice in five cities
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While this particular anecdote is funny, it speaks to a larger, more alarming trend in the travel industry.
Anne Hardy, adjunct professor in tourism at Southern Cross University, Australia, told CNN that about 37% of tourists use artificial intelligence-powered large language models like ChatGPT for travel advice or itineraries.
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