{"id":20463,"date":"2025-07-24T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20463\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:28:10","slug":"agents-invited-to-trial-new-app-that-uses-ai-to-convert-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20463\/","title":{"rendered":"Agents invited to trial new app that uses AI to convert sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel agents can get a free trial of an AI search app that could help convert more enquiries into sales.<\/p>\n<p>The app, called ASTRA (Assistant Travel Advisor) provides agents with their own personalised AI search chatbot, which is customised for them.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Ian Champness said it is a \u2018one-stop\u2019 AI app combining the \u2018information of a ChatGPT 4 search with the experience, advice and destination knowledge of a travel consultant\u2019 as well as using tools such as videos, location maps and images.<\/p>\n<p>Ian said: \u201cIt\u2019s a customised sales-conversion tool \u2013 and launch-ready to help agents convert more sales \u2013 especially for independent and homeworking travel consultants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe link to their own AI Search chatbot can be incorporated into their website and in any sales emails or social media posts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ian\u2019s Go There Travel business, <a href=\"https:\/\/travelgossip.co.uk\/latestnews\/agents-offered-free-test-of-transformational-ai-search-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">which launched a year ago<\/a>, worked with 50 agencies to develop ASTRA.<\/p>\n<p>Now Ian is looking for an additional 50 agencies to trial the app.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe have spent the last few months finessing from feedback from agents who tested the prototype. Comments encouraged us that agents are recognising the impact of AI and how it is rapidly changing consumers\u2019 buying behaviour in searching and planning their next holiday. Agents are looking for a tech solution to meet this shift in holiday planning. Exactly what our AI search chatbot delivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first 50 agents who sign up can trial the app free for two months. If they want to continue, they can sign up for \u00a399, which includes a year\u2019s subscription and support set-up fee. For other agents, the price will be \u00a399 to set up, plus a monthly subscription of \u00a310.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/app.gotheretravel.ai\/agent\/ian-champness\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for a demo.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travel agents can get a free trial of an AI search app that could help convert more enquiries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-20463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}