WANDERLUST: AN AI-POWERED SMART TOURISM AND TRAVEL MANAGEMENT PLATFORM THAT HELPS USERS PLAN TRIPS, MANAGE BOOKINGS, TRACK BUDGETS, AND RECEIVE PERSONALIZED TRAVEL RECOMMENDATIONS IN ONE SYSTEM
Modern travelers face difficulties in planning trips efficiently due to fragmented travel services, lack of personalized recommendations, budget management challenges, and insufficient real-time travel information. Existing tourism applications often focus on only one aspect such as hotel booking or navigation, resulting in poor user experience.
This paper presents WANDERLUST, an AI-powered travel planning and tourism management platform that integrates destination discovery, smart itinerary generation, hotel and transport management, budget tracking, weather forecasting, safety alerts, and AI travel assistance into a unified system. The platform provides
Dubey, S., Ojha, S. & Soni, S. (2026). WANDERLUST: An AI-Powered Smart Tourism and Travel Management Platform That Helps users Plan Trips, Manage Bookings, Track Budgets, and Receive Personalized Travel Recommendations in One System. International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, 02(05). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i5.404
Dubey, Sujal, et al.. "WANDERLUST: An AI-Powered Smart Tourism and Travel Management Platform That Helps users Plan Trips, Manage Bookings, Track Budgets, and Receive Personalized Travel Recommendations in One System." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, vol. 02, no. 05, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i5.404.
Dubey, Sujal,Satyam Ojha, and Sourabh Soni. "WANDERLUST: An AI-Powered Smart Tourism and Travel Management Platform That Helps users Plan Trips, Manage Bookings, Track Budgets, and Receive Personalized Travel Recommendations in One System." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology 02, no. 05 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i5.404.
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