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AI on Australian travel company website sends tourists to nonexistent hot springs

An AI marketing error led to tourists mistakenly visiting Weldborough for hot springs that do not exist, with 37% of travelers using AI for travel advice, experts say.

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(CNN) — An AI-generated blog on a tour company’s website has landed tourists in hot water — and not the kind they were looking for — after it emerged the “tranquil” northern Tasmania hot springs it recommended don’t actually exist.

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A blog generated by artificial intelligence on the website of a travel company ended up putting tourists in trouble, and not the kind they were looking for, after it was discovered that the “tranquilas” hot springs in northern Tasmania that it recommended do not actually exist. Screenshots shared with CNN from the blog, now removed, on the Tasmania Tours website show recommendations for the so-called “Weldborough Hot Springs”, which supposedly o…

A blog generated by artificial intelligence from a tourism company's website has put tourists in a loop, after it has been discovered that the "linists" are out of the north of Tasmania, which recommends them, does not exist in fact.

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CNN broke the news in Atlanta, United States on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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