MakeMyTrip launches AI-enabled travel agent Myra

Online travel booking platform MakeMyTrip has introduced an AI-powered virtual travel agent that can guide users through every step of their journey on the website, from trip planning and booking to handling post-sales queries such as cancellations and refunds, via both voice and text. Users can ask complex and open-ended queries in the realm of […]

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Insurance Query: Travel insurance cover on trip cancellation

I’ve booked a non-refundable holiday package, but I may have to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances. Does travel insurance cover trip cancellation costs? – Kalyani Kalyani, thank you for asking this relevant question. It’s something many travellers only think of when faced with a sudden change in plans, and by then, it’s often too late. […]

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What we can still learn from travel’s most radical mode?

“Hitchhiking is not a thing of the past; it’s a thing for the future,” Menz tells the BBC. Still, the two 25-year-olds realise that not everyone shares this sentiment. While hitchhiking was once commonplace around the world, it was later stigmatised as unsafe in the US and parts of Europe. And while it’s a cheap […]

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Women’s Rugby World travel advice first game in Sunderland

There are no more spectator parking spaces available at the Stadium of Light as they have all sold out. There are a limited number of pre-bookable parking spaces at the new station car park in Holmeside which will cost £7. Spaces at Sunniside Multi Storey Car Park on William Street will be available on a […]

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