GatherRoute : Exploring Future Travel Planning

Group travel planning used to be an exciting ritual. But as planning shifted onto digital platforms, the sense of togetherness began to fade into scattered chats and separate screens. Our team began to wonder, “What if technology could bring back that shared joy of decision-making?”

With this question, we saw opportunities to blend physical and digital touch points through immersive augmented reality, making group travel planning more interactive, connected, and human again. We decided to build upon the Airbnb experience and integrate travel planning stages into the platform, utilizing Airbnb’s location datasets to create an engaging spatial format that allows users to explore and understand travel data collaboratively in real time.