AI Developer Needed to Build Travel Sales Bot

I ran a travel agency. We are looking for an experienced AI developer to build an AI-powered travel sales assistant aka ai-agent. The assistant should chat with customers, collect trip requirements, search for relevant tours/packages, answer common travel questions, and send qualified leads to the sales team. Main Features - Understand natural language travel requests - Collect key trip details: destination, dates, budget, number of travelers, preferences, etc. - Search tours/packages through API or structured data - Recommend suitable travel options - Answer questions using our internal knowledge base - Capture and qualify leads - Send qualified leads to Telegram, CRM, or email - Escalate to a human agent when needed Preferred Experience - AI agents / conversational assistants - RAG and vector databases - LangGraph, LangChain, or similar frameworks - Python / FastAPI - API integrations - Lead qualification workflows - Prompt engineering and hallucination control S t a r t your proposal with a w o r d travel. This will tell me you read it. Nice to Have Experience with travel, booking systems, tour operators, or recommendation engines. Deliverables - Working MVP of the AI travel assistant - Travel requirement collection flow - Search/recommendation logic - Knowledge base integration - Lead handoff workflow - Basic documentation and deployment support Please Include 1. Examples of similar AI agents or RAG systems you have built 2. Your recommended architecture 3. Estimated timeline for an MVP 4. Your preferred tech stack 5. How you would prevent hallucinations around pricing, availability, policies, and visa information