ThaiGuide-AI Planner

ThaiGuide-AI Planner is an open-source Kaggle travel-planning app built around a single persona, Somsri, a warm and knowledgeable Thai tour guide who stays in character across three modes: a live voice guide, a trip planner, and a text-based local chat. Pick a destination (Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Krabi, or Ayutthaya), add interests, and it produces a day plan with real attractions, restaurants, and timing.

Route planning runs through two tiers. By default, itineraries are generated with a fast, grounded model call. Flip on Deep Thinking mode and the same request routes to a reasoning model configured with a large thinking budget, prompted to work through traffic, weather patterns, and cultural timing and explain its logic — the difference between 'here's a plan' and 'here's a plan and why it holds up.'

Every itinerary is grounded rather than invented from the model's own memory: requests attach both Google Search and Google Maps as tools, so place names, hours, and prices are checked against live sources, and the response carries grounding citations back with it. The Live Guide mode uses the same Somsri persona for a real-time, spoken conversation — talk through what kind of trip you want, and the transcript from that conversation feeds straight into the planner to generate the itinerary, no retyping required.

The grounded place references double as map data. Once an itinerary comes back, the app pulls the named locations out of the grounding results and draws an actual driving route between them on a live map, with total distance, duration, and stop count calculated from the routed legs — not just a list of names, but a plotted trip.