What is a travel chatbot?+
A travel chatbot is a chat assistant on a hotel, tour operator or travel agency website that answers guest and traveller questions without anyone being on shift. The useful kind is trained on your own terms, itineraries and area guides, so it quotes your cancellation window rather than a generic one, and it answers in whatever language the guest writes in — which in this industry is the difference between an enquiry and a bounce.
Does it work on WhatsApp or Instagram?+
No. CustomerBot is a website widget and does not connect to WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook Messenger. That matters in travel more than in most sectors, because a lot of guests genuinely prefer messaging apps — so if a WhatsApp presence is central to how you take enquiries, you should look at a tool built for that. If your enquiries mostly arrive through your own site, this covers them properly.
Can it answer visa and entry requirement questions?+
It should not, and you should configure it not to. Entry rules change without notice and depend on nationality, transit route and purpose of travel, so a confidently wrong answer can leave someone unable to board. Train it to point at the official government source and the airline, and to say plainly that it cannot confirm anyone’s eligibility. Everything else about the trip it can answer freely.
Is there a free plan for a small property?+
Yes — one assistant and 50 conversations a month with no card, which suits a single guesthouse or a small operator and is enough to see how much of your enquiry volume is genuinely repetitive. Language support is not restricted on the free plan, so you can test it in the languages your guests actually use.
Can it quote live availability and prices?+
From your published rate pages, yes. For live availability you would connect your booking or channel-manager endpoint as an API tool — describe it in plain English and CustomerBot generates the tool schema, then the assistant calls it during the conversation and answers from the response.
How good is it in languages we do not speak?+
It detects the language of the message and answers in it across more than 95 languages, reading from your English source content. This is the single biggest reason travel businesses adopt it: the guest writing in Korean at 11am Seoul time gets the same answer as the one writing in English.
Will it promise something we cannot honour?+
Answers are grounded in the content you trained it on and cite their source. If your terms do not cover a case, it says so and offers to pass the question on rather than inventing a policy. That fallback behaviour is the point — an invented cancellation policy is a chargeback waiting to happen.
Can we run one assistant per property?+
Yes, and for multi-property groups you usually should — each assistant has its own knowledge base, branding and analytics. Plan limits govern how many assistants an account holds, so check pricing before planning a rollout across a large estate.
Does it work on our booking engine’s pages?+
It is one script tag, so it works anywhere you control the HTML — your own site, a Webflow or WordPress build, or a custom front end. Some hosted booking engines do not allow injected scripts; in that case put it on your main site where the research actually happens.