AI Trip Planning Isn’t a Text Generation Problem

Ask ChatGPT to plan a 5-day Yellowstone trip, and you’ll get something that reads beautifully and falls apart on contact with reality. A January drive up the Beartooth Highway (buried under ten feet of snow). A campsite at a campground that closed three years ago. Fourteen hours of hiking on day one, with a toddler in your group. The output sounds helpful. It would also ruin your trip. This is the fundamental problem with AI travel planning. Most apps treat it as text generation - throw a prompt at an LLM, render the response, call it a product. But an itinerary isn’t creative writing.