A Modern Concierge Concept Just for Seniors

Personalized Plurality (An Agent Just for You -- and Every Other Senior)

Imagine spending most of your adult life working and then, whether planned in advance or not, you decide to get busy with your travel bucket list. Where should you go? What type of visas will you need? How many hurdles do you have to jump over? It already is starting to sound like a chore.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a Global Concierge at your fingertips? Would you mind if it was an AI bot (artificial intelligence)? Would you pay for such a service? Or would you rather pay for human assistance? Let me know in the comments.

As we all know, the world is rapidly growing older.

1,602,000,000 seniors in 2050

And 51% of the assets in first-world economies are owned by Baby Boomers:

So where are the specialized travel services for this aging audience? $84 trillion in the USA alone:

You can’t say the market isn’t big enough lol.

I believe that companies may perceive a stigma associated with creating products for older adults, as there is a notion that they won’t be around long enough to justify the investment.

Even Senior Living Communities seem to be stuck in a different era in terms of offering a vibrancy and an aesthetic for modern, active seniors, except for perhaps Disney. They’ve done their homework and are starting to build high-end senior communities in the USA:

The only problem is the price point: starting in the “upper $1 million” USD. :(

Maybe you don’t need a house or an apartment in a senior community. Maybe you need a year-round, always on companion — a concierge! Everything from what will the weather be like in Sydney in May, to how can I avoid a tourist crush at the Louvre Museum in Paris in June? And a 1,000 more questions before, during and after your trips.

Your travel plans do not have to be halfway around the world. If Google Maps already knows the real-time traffic delays in your neighborhood, you can imagine the smart information available by extremely massive large language models (LLMs) that artificial intelligence uses.

And why not add an online community of human users to such a system so that we can help other humans — and the bot, live happily ever after?

Depending on how willing you might be to opt-in to such a system — imagine if you uploaded your passport and other requested documents for a particular country’s visa submission and it re-uses your documents to make your next visa application much quicker and easier. The bot also reminds you to renew all necessary documents before a particular immigration service needs it.

As agent to agent bots get more and more mature, rather than downloading a particular country’s train app, your concierge bot already “knows” the bullet train schedules from Tokyo to Kyoto and is capable of booking the ticket you need. If you uploaded a photo of your luggage to the bot it will know whether to book a standard reserved seat or a seat that includes an allowance for oversized luggage.

From making suggestions that you book a busy restaurant ahead of time because it knows you are a foodie, to tracking hotel discounts in quiet neighborhoods based on your accommodation history, you can have an always-on concierge without paying for a 5 star hotel.

What is something like that worth to you per month, per year, or per use?

Should someone make the world’s best senior travel bot? Should it be us?

Comments below please.

Later,

Neill