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How to Build an AI Trip Planner in Lovable (with Real AI Agents)

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Planning a trip can be fun — until you hit the wall of details.

Which route is best? Where to eat? What’s near your hotel?

You end up juggling maps, guides, and dozens of tabs just to plan a few days.

What if an AI trip planner could do it all for you — suggest where to stay, what to see, where to eat, and even how to get there?

In this guide, we’ll show you how to build TripPlanner, a smart travel assistant that creates personalized itineraries for any destination, based on your budget, trip length, and preferences.

You’ll use:

  • Lovable for the clean, interactive UI

  • Momen for the AI logic, backend, and data structure

  • Vibe Architect to connect the two in minutes — with zero coding required

What We Will Build

TripPlanner helps users plan trips that feel personal, efficient, and easy to follow.

Here’s what it can do:

  • Generate daily itineraries — each day has its own theme or region focus (like “Nature & Culture”).

  • Recommend where to eat, drink, and stay — from breakfast cafés to budget-friendly hotels.

  • Plan your daily activities — complete with transport tips, ticket info, and timing suggestions.

  • Add helpful travel advice — what to pack, local customs, weather, and safety reminders.

Why it matters:

  • It saves travelers hours of manual planning.

  • It gives creators and startups a template to add real AI trip logic to their travel apps.

  • It shows how AI + backend logic + UI can come together visually, without code.

Step 1: Set Up Your Backend in Momen

Think of Momen as your travel app’s control center — where your data, logic, and AI all live.

For TripPlanner, we’ll build one AI agent and connect it to external tools (like Google Maps or travel APIs).

Inputs

The user provides:

  • Destination (text)

  • Days (number)

  • Start date (date)

  • Budget (number)

Tool Use

The agent can call:

  1. geocoding — to locate destinations on a map

  2. nearby search — to find attractions, restaurants, and hotels nearby

Prompt

Ask the AI agent to return a structured daily plan, give it detail explaination in the prompt, including:

  • Day title & theme

  • Eat / Drink / Stay / Play sections

  • Transportation suggestions

  • Local tips & safety notes

It’s like having a real travel agent who organizes your day — just faster, smarter, and available 24/7.

You can easily test your agent inside Momen before connecting to Lovable.

Step 2: Connect to Lovable for the Frontend

Once your backend is ready, let’s bring it to life with Lovable.

Here’s how to connect it:

  1. In Momen, go to your TripPlanner agent → click Export Blueprint.

  2. Open Vibe Architect → paste the Blueprint.

  3. Click Convert → this creates a Lovable-ready prompt.

  4. In Lovable, create a new app → paste the prompt → done!

Your Lovable app now has:

  • Input fields for destination, days, start date, and budget

  • A “Generate Itinerary” button

  • A detailed, day-by-day trip plan display

What makes this special: Your UI isn’t just a mockup — it’s powered by a real backend and AI agent that uses live location data.

Step 3: Why Use Momen Instead of a Custom Backend

If you’ve ever tried connecting Lovable to a coded backend, you know the pain —API setup, error handling, key management, endless debugging.

Momen replaces all that with a visual backend for AI:

  • Drag-and-drop database and workflows

  • Built-in tool calling (like geocoding or nearby search)

  • Seamless integration with Lovable via Vibe Architect

That means your travel app goes from idea → working prototype in less than an hour, not weeks.

Conclusion: Your Personal AI Trip Planner, Built by You

With Lovable for design and Momen for AI + backend logic, you can create a personalized AI trip planner that feels truly useful — and build it visually, without writing a line of code.

TripPlanner can become:

  • A personal tool for organizing your next vacation

  • A foundation for your travel startup

  • Or a fun demo of what’s possible with AI and no-code</p>

Ready to Try It?

Start building for free on Momen: https://momen.app

View the full read-only setup here: TripPlanner Demo

Then connect it to Lovable using Vibe Architect, and you’ll have your own AI travel assistant — one that knows how to plan, recommend, and inspire.

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