World Travel Index 3.0 features a complete AI intelligence engine, real-time data, and powerful visual tools.
🎛️ Advanced Preference Filters: Use granular sliders for everything from water temperature by month to specific safety metrics and sustainability scores.
🤖 Real-Time AI Tools: Get live, search-grounded answers to complex questions and use our AI Destination Dupe Finder to discover similar alternatives.
📊 Visual Intelligence: Instantly understand destinations with tourist flow charts, traveler radar diagrams, and detailed vibe breakdowns.
🛠️ Interactive Tools: Access our built-in vaccine guide, smart packing lists, power adapter checker, tipping guide, and transport scores.
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Hi Travel Massive Community!
I’m Tom, founder of World Travel Index.
I started WTI for a very personal reason: I was tired of being that travel planning trash panda you see in our launch video, drowning in dozens of conflicting blog posts and forum tabs just to plan one trip. I believed there had to be a way to replace biased opinions with objective, comprehensive data.
The journey to 3.0 over the past few months has been guided entirely by that mission and by listening to feedback from our customers and users. The biggest insight we had was that raw data isn't enough. People want to ask real, human questions like, “Where is it sunny in March, safe for a solo female traveler, has a great cultural scene, and is affordable?” Answering that single question used to be a massive research project.
That challenge became our guiding star for this update: improving our AI Tools and developing smart snippets / widgets that could instantly answer those complex questions with multiple layers.
That’s why World Travel Index 3.0 is our biggest evolution yet, and we’ve been humbled that our data driven approach has been recognized by outlets like Forbes, BBC, and Travel + Leisure in the recent months.
🌍 Check out the new platform to see what we mean: theworldtravelindex.com/en/
🎉 To celebrate this major launch, we’ve also released a short film that captures the universal travel planning chaos we aim to solve.
We built these tools to solve our own frustrations and hopefully yours too. I'd love to know:
How do you see these new, deeper AI tools transforming your planning workflow?
Best regards,
Tom
AI is making the travel world more accessible and easy.
And that's making it very difficult on the world.
There's good and not-so-good uses of AI, but yes we are in a new world with these kinds of tools.
In the case of Tom's World Travel Index, humans simply can't assemble thousands of data points about cities and create these kinds of interactive, comparison guides. The AI does the heavy lifting and it's more than just a chatgpt generated itinerary guide.
Outside of travel, I recommend to have a look at the story of AlphaFold from Google DeepMind (their advanced AI lab). They accelerated discovery of folded proteins from thousands (using brute force computing) to millions (using AI) which advanced scientific knowledge by decades.
Technologically brilliant. Well done. What I am missing - why not adding some form of content, like "get your idea" - a story why the chosen destination is exciting.
That's a brilliant point. Our goal is to handle the objective data, so you can focus on the personal discovery.
We give you the facts, which lets you see if a destination's story truly fits yours. Think of the data as the launchpad for your travel decisions.
Feel free to send a DM, would love to chat more about it.
Hi Tom, I'm exploring your tool a bit and I find it generally useful. It covers most of the things I reserach for when planning a new trip. Here a couple of other ideas that could add to it:
- The packing list could become personal overtime. As you check your items (and add some extra) they stay linked to your account so that next time it lists the things you typicaly take, combined with a popularity score of items that mos people ticks off.
- Getting context of other places you've been. This is a typical quesiton for me, if I visited Iguazu falls, would Niagara falls impress? how do they compare? Getting some sort of relative comparison of destinations with similar ones would help.
- Another thing I always do when planning a trip is to see how I could combine it with a stopover along the way, that's getting into flight search which is a whole other game but just an idea, it could suggest how people combine that destination with a day or two in a well connected hub in that direction.
- And the big one! I travel with wife and 2 small children. This is rare and nothing is optimised for travelling with small children, adivise and practical information about visiting destinations with small kids would help to the minority of us who do it. Things like hospitals nearby, rental cars who offer child seats, a whole index about kids-friendliness in terms of interest, playgrounds around, activities for them, etc.
Hi Lezka,
Thank you for this incredible feedback! Coming from an engineering leader and such an experienced traveler (100+ countries is impressive!), I really value this level of detail.
I particularly love the idea about "Contextual Comparison" (Iguazu vs. Niagara). Putting data into a relative perspective based on past experiences is exactly the kind of "human logic" we aim to replicate with our AI. The family/kids aspect is also a massive gap in the current travel tech market. I hear you loud and clear on that.
To be transparent about our current roadmap: We are a lean team and highly focused on data integrity right now. Our engineering resources are currently 100% dedicated to two major milestones:
Aggregating the full 2025 dataset for the upcoming 2026 Ranking.
Launching a new Price Granularity Feature, which will show monthly price trends for Airbnbs, Hotels, and Car Rentals to help with precise budget planning.
Because of this, I can't commit to a timeline for the features you mentioned just yet. We prioritize our long-term roadmap heavily based on voting and usage patterns from our paying members to ensure we build what creates the most immediate value for the community.
That said, I have added your suggestions to our internal "Feature Wishlist" for future evaluation.
Thanks again for taking the time to test the tool and share your thoughts. It helps us a lot!
Best,
Tom
Cool, I absolutely understand what it takes to develop a product.
Another thing that you could add to the list could be the seasonal attractions, like the best times for whale watching or the Holi Festival for example. That's usually a hard thing to find when researching, the dates of local traditions or celebrations as well as seasons for some animal watching
Thanks for the follow-up ideas!
Regarding wildlife, I have some good news. We actually already cover this for coastal and island destinations. If you look at the bottom of the "Things to do" section for places like Madeira, we list specific animals found in the area, such as whale sharks or dolphins, along with the exact months they can be spotted.
For festivals, you are spot on. We currently list the top festivals in the "Worth it?" section to help users decide if a trip is worthwhile. However, we don't always show the specific calendar dates, especially for events that change every year. Adding a dynamic calendar layer is a great idea to make that section more practical.
I have added the calendar idea to our list. Thanks for helping us improve!