Built an app prototype that turns travel itineraries into visual walkthrough videos
Traditional travel planning feels surprisingly outdated.
Most itinerary tools still rely on long text lists, spreadsheets, screenshots, saved TikToks, and scattered Google Maps pins. Even after organizing everything, it still feels hard to actually picture what a trip will feel like.
Because of that, I started experimenting with a concept that turns travel itineraries into visual walkthroughs instead of plain text schedules.
The idea is:
- input flights, hotels, destinations, and activities
- generate a visual representation of the trip flow
- make the itinerary easier to understand at a glance
Some concepts I’ve been testing:
- short cinematic-style previews
- longer detailed walkthroughs
- route-to-route visualization
- day-by-day trip flow
- airport → transport → hotel → attraction transitions
One interesting thing I noticed is that people quickly spot unrealistic pacing once they can visually “watch” the itinerary unfold instead of reading it from a checklist.
It also seems to make trips feel more emotionally real before traveling, which I didn’t initially expect.
Still very early and mostly exploring the idea itself, but I’d genuinely love to hear thoughts on whether visual-first travel planning sounds useful or unnecessary.
This is the video demo in youtube