8 Innovative Ways To Use AI For Travel Blogging & Vlogging

How to Use AI for Travel Blogging: 8 AI Tools for content creation

There are few greater pleasures in life than travelling, and what better way to document and remember your adventures than by blogging or vlogging as you go? 

While this may seem like a daunting task if you aren’t super confident with your blogging or even video editing skills, we’re here to tell you that getting into travel blogging or even vlogging is much easier than it sounds. And now that we’re firmly in the age of AI, it’s even easier, if you can believe it. 

The use cases for AI when it comes to travel blogging and vlogging are many and varied. In this guide, we’ll walk you through what these uses are, as well as some practical ways you can leverage AI to improve how you document your travels.

Innovative Ways To Use AI For Travel Blogging

1. Video Translation ​

As a travel vlogger, you’ll probably want to broaden your audience to include those living in other countries. In the past, language could sometimes be a barrier to achieving this goal. These days, it’s now possible to use an AI video translator to convert your narration to English or any other language. 

What’s more, AI video translators have improved to the point that they can do more than simply dub you in a different language. Today, these nifty AI tools are also capable of capturing the linguistic nuances of different languages so that your content truly connects with your international audience. 

And the best part of all? It can do all of this whilst still generating a dubbed voice that sounds organic and 100% human as well.

AI Video Translation

2. Photo and Video Editing

Possibly the most widespread use of AI when it comes to blogging or vlogging is in photo and video editing. Adobe Firefly has incorporated AI features to make editing and even expanding on travel footage a breeze.

More than simply editing your existing footage, AI software like Firefly but even Midjourney and ElevenLabs as well, can actually help you create brand-new images and videos from scratch. Did anyone say B roll footage?

Granted, while this shouldn’t necessarily replace actually snapping some pictures while on your travels, the ability to easily generate images and videos from scratch for your B roll that can help you fill in gaps in your existing footage (as long as you’re clear to your audience about when you’re using AI) and market your blog or vlog more effectively with AI-generated thumbnails.

3. Booking Management

Many long-term travellers find booking management boring – a necessary bit of admin in a life that’s otherwise filled with adventure. However, making and managing bookings really is the backbone of any trip. Even so, this doesn’t mean you need to spend hours staring at hotel and airline booking screens.

Today, AI has made it possible to significantly cut back on the time you spend making bookings. Thanks to tools like Kayak and Mindtrip, it’s now possible to find the best rates and even make the final booking with the help of an AI agent, saving you loads of time and allowing you to focus on enjoying your trip and perfecting your travel blogging and vlogging. 

AI-powered travel planning

4. Content Writing and Editing

There’s a lot of debate about how much AI should be used in the blog writing process. While it’s probably not a good idea to simply run a two-line prompt and have ChatGPT generate your whole blog post for you, there’s no doubt that generative AI tools can be helpful. 

One way to use AI for travel blog writing is to help with outlining. You might compile your notes into a document, feed it into an AI model and ask for a rough outline. Once you’ve written your piece, you can also run it through an AI editor like Grammarly to help pick up any typos or poor writing. While AI can’t fully replace human writing, it can streamline the blogging process significantly.

Content Creation

5. Travel Itinerary Development

AI tools can also help you plan out your itinerary for a trip, helping shorten the research process. One way of leveraging AI for itinerary planning is simply to run a prompt through a standard LLM like ChatGPT or Claude. Feed it information like your style of travelling (will you be backpacking or staying in 5-star hotels?), your interests and how long you’ll be staying, and wait for the recommendations to flood in. 

There are also plenty of AI tools that are dedicated travel planners. While some of these require a paid subscription, it’ll be well worth it given the amount of time you can save during the planning stage.​

6. SEO Optimization

As a travel blogger, you’ll need to hone not only your content and editorial skills, but your website management skills as well. To grow your blog website, you’ll need it to maintain maximum visibility on search engines, and the best way to do that is to follow SEO principles.

If you’re not an overly analytical person, you’ll be happy to hear that AI can help with this, too. From performing keyword research to spotting opportunities for natural keyword usage or internal link insertion, AI can boost your blog’s SEO tremendously. AI can also help with the query fanout process, so that you’re answering the questions that your audience is actually asking. By leveraging AI, you can boost your discoverability online and take your blog to greater heights.

7. Voiceovers for Videos

Another great use case for AI is in adding voiceovers to vlogs. Traditionally, vloggers had to narrate their own videos. This led to many who were not as comfortable putting their voices out there simply releasing videos without the added voiceovers.

With AI, it’s now possible to add a completely automated voiceover to your travel videos. You can even customize things like accent, pitch and speaking speed. Thanks to the rapid advances of AI text-to-speech, it’s now easier than ever to publish fully narrated videos, even if you’d rather not do the narration yourself.

Narrate your adventures effortlessly

8. AI-Guided Tours ​

Finding the best spots to visit in a foreign country while also trying to capture great footage can be challenging. However, thanks to AI travel guides, this aspect of travel can be much less daunting.

AI guides provide numerous benefits for travel bloggers/vloggers. For one thing, they’re much more cost-effective than joining a tour group or hiring a local guide, and we all know how big a consideration cost is when you’re travelling multiple times a year. Moreover, these virtual guides are also available 24/7, giving you incredible flexibility. These tools are a great way to help you see as much of a new country as possible in your limited time there.

AI guided tours

Hone your Travel Blogging & Vlogging Skills with AI Integration

AI has changed the way we travel. From itinerary planning to booking management, it’s made the process much more stress-free. What’s more, advances in AI have also made putting together a blog or vlog much easier. When you combine these two, it’s easy to see why AI is such a favourite among those starting a travel blog or vlog.

So what are you waiting for? Start experimenting with some of the AI tools we’ve outlined above to see how you can integrate AI processes into your travel vlogging and blogging. Happy creating!

​**AI-generated images used for illustrative purposes only.