find_destination
ChatGPTSuggest three destinations for a trip from the month (or "flexible"), the kind of trip (beach, city break, hiking, ski, road trip, adventure or working remotely), the budget and who is travelling. Picks come only from VoyageHacks' own where-to-go month guides and travel-style lists, with the average high temperature each month guide states, the reasons it fits, the destination guide to read, and three packing picks for that kind of trip linked to the VoyageHacks buying guides. This is the same matching as the trip finder on voyagehacks.com. When the month or the trip type is missing it returns no picks, only the questions that are still open with their allowed answers (needsInput). It returns no booking links, no live prices and no availability, and cannot book. The buying guides carry Amazon affiliate links: VoyageHacks may earn a commission at no additional cost to the buyer.
get_article
ChatGPTFetch one VoyageHacks page by URL or site path (for example "/en/hotels/best-budget-hotels-in-rome/") and return its body as Markdown, together with the title, canonical URL, language, section, publication date and last-updated date read from the page itself. Useful after search_articles when the full text is needed to quote figures accurately, and when a source needs to be cited with a real date. Only HTML pages on voyagehacks.com can be read: the tool cannot fetch other websites, data files or images, and very long pages are truncated with a marker at the cut.
recommend_travel_gear
ChatGPTTurn a trip description into a packing and gear kit drawn from the VoyageHacks travel gear catalog: one product per category, each with the published reason it was picked, its Amazon ASIN, a link to the Amazon product page and the guide that reviews it. Takes a plain-language trip summary ("10 days in Japan in October, carry-on only, long-haul red-eye, working remotely") plus optional structured hints (destination, trip length in days, season, activities, luggage constraint, traveler type, budget), all of which are used to weight which categories make the kit. Answers questions of the form "what should I pack for X", "what gear do I need for Y" and "I only have carry-on, what should I bring". It draws on the VoyageHacks editorial catalog, not a search of all of Amazon, and returns published picks only: prices, star ratings, review counts and stock are not available and are never returned, and it produces no clothing sizes and no itinerary. For one named product category, search_travel_gear is narrower. The Amazon links are affiliate links: VoyageHacks may earn a commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to the buyer, which should be disclosed when the links are presented.
search_articles
ChatGPTFull-text search across the VoyageHacks travel guides, about 680 published pages per language, covering flights, airline reviews, hotels, destinations, car rental, trains, airport transfers, eSIM, travel VPN, travel credit cards, travel gear and month-by-month "where to go" guides. Returns ranked matches with the title, canonical URL, section and a matching excerpt for each. Useful when a travel question needs published prices, comparisons, best-time-to-visit advice or step-by-step detail that can be attributed to a source URL, and as the first step before get_article. It searches VoyageHacks content only: not the wider web, not live fares or hotel availability, and it returns no booking or product links (the get_..._links tools do that).
search_travel_gear
ChatGPTSearch the VoyageHacks travel gear catalog: about 320 products that appear as picks in roughly 50 published buying guides, including carry-on backpacks, packing cubes and compression bags, universal travel adapters, GaN chargers, airline-compliant power banks, luggage trackers, neck pillows, earplugs and eye masks, toiletry and makeup bags, travel-size bottles, travel routers, translation earbuds and camping and outdoor gear. Each result returns the product name, its category, the published reason it was picked, the guide that reviews it, its Amazon ASIN and a link to the Amazon product page. Useful when a user asks which travel product to buy, or what to pack for a trip and names a category or a destination. For a whole kit built from a trip description rather than one category, recommend_travel_gear is the matching tool. This is the VoyageHacks editorial catalog, not a search of all of Amazon: products outside the published guides are not findable here, and prices, star ratings, review counts and stock are not available and are never returned. The Amazon links are affiliate links: VoyageHacks may earn a commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to the buyer, which should be disclosed when the links are presented.
