A New Zealand tech fan asked Copilot in PowerPoint to visualise their travel itinerary and was impressed with the result, joking that seeing it all laid out made them think they might need extra insurance.
Create a short presentation from my travel itinerary below. Give each day or each stop its own slide with the date, place, main activities, travel times and where I'm staying, plus a simple overview slide with the whole route at the start. Keep the text brief and add suitable images. Itinerary: [PASTE ITINERARY].
Replace the [PLACEHOLDERS] with your own details before you send it.
How to try it
- Paste or attach your itinerary in PowerPoint and open Copilot.
- Ask it to build a deck with an overview slide and one slide per day or stop.
- Check every date and booking detail against your confirmations, then share it with your travel companions.
More travel use cases
Write a detailed prompt to get a travel plan that feels like yours
Planning Key West, a Kiplinger writer found a simple 'two-day itinerary' prompt gave generic tourist picks. Adding details such as 'focus on water activities, include a ghost tour, build in hotel breaks, no breakfast' produced plans that felt like hers, though everything still needed checking.
Create a [NUMBER]-day itinerary for [DESTINATION]. The atmosphere I want: [E.G. RELAXED, OUTDOORSY]. Must include: [E.G. A GHOST TOUR]. Focus on: [E.G. WATER ACTIVITIES]. Build in: [E.G. AN AFTERNOON BREAK AT THE HOTEL]. Skip: [E.G. BREAKFAST PLANS, BUSY NIGHTLIFE]. Avoid the obvious top-ten list where you can and tell me why each pick suits me.
Find your way through a huge airport by talking to Gemini
Arriving late at Chicago O'Hare, columnist Joy Schwabach had to meet her stepson at a distant terminal without knowing his gate. She asked Gemini through the phone app's microphone and listened to its answers, so she could follow its directions without looking down at her screen.
I've just landed at [AIRPORT] at [TERMINAL / GATE] and need to get to [WHERE YOU'RE MEETING SOMEONE OR CONNECTING]. Give me step-by-step walking directions, including any trains or shuttles between terminals, roughly how long it will take, and what signs to follow. Keep each step short so I can listen while I walk.
Find the food locals actually eat with Perplexity
His mum had spent weeks fighting with generic tourist guides for a Curaçao trip, so one traveller spent five minutes with Perplexity and got an itinerary with food tips drawn from locals' posts on Reddit. She was delighted.
I'm visiting [DESTINATION] for [NUMBER] days. Skip the generic tourist lists. Using recent discussions from locals and frequent visitors (for example Reddit and local forums), recommend places to eat and dishes I should try, plus things to do that locals rate. Include the source for each tip and note anything that may have closed.
Reference: X @nztechtweet