Scrolling through Instagram is a great room to spark your wanderlust . It ’s almost impossible to look at other multitude ’s picturesque holiday pic and not guess yourself in their world - travel shoes . Knowing that plenty of travelers ferment to social media feeds andinfluencersfor trip inspiration , easyJet is cutting out the wholesaler . According toThrillist , the company will help you plan a trip based on an Instagram photo .
The easyJet app ’s " Look&Book " feature lets you look for flights based on a pic . You just necessitate to upload a motion picture from your phone , and the app will canvas the photograph and figure out where you should go using artificial intelligence and geotags .
Say , for instance , you see a beautiful shot someone in your provender just post from Prague . Take a screenshot of the Instagram and upload it to the easyJet app . It will strain to compute out where that photo was pick out , then advise the nigh airport to which the carrier can take you .
While screenshots from Instagram work well , accord to the ship’s company , you could also upload any other photo on your earphone . The tech is n’t perfect , peculiarly if the photo does n’t admit a recognizable landmark . And it ’s limited to destination in easyJet ’s internet , which is mostly European , with a sprinkling of North African and Middle Eastern destinations . But if it ’s a screenshot of an Instagram that has a geotag , that app is able-bodied to pinpoint the emplacement fair accurately .
Very few travel booking websites are as fun to scroll through as Instagram , so this way , you may savour theexperienceof research social media and have easyJet do the work of tracking down the logistics .
See how it works in the video below .
[ h / tThrillist ]
