To me, if I’m travelling, my photography is about capturing memories that I can look back on.
That being said I will always look for a unique angle or perspective. Take pictures at your favourite tourist destinations, but try to be creative with it.
For pictures of people on the street, I agree that it’s a bit irrelevant to photograph something (e.g. a sidewalk with pedestrians) if that thing could just as eaily have been captured at home. If it does not convey a sense of the place you are in and have spent money to travel to and experience, why take it?
However, if in your example of a bus driver, if you could see that the writing is in French, and the next stop display is visible, that could provide context and place the image as part of your travel snaps.
So to me travel photography is about creating interesting photos that are contextualised within the image or series of images, and with that context they will add to your memories to look back on!
Have a great trip!
Honestly if you don’t want to do it yourself and don’t trust AI, use fiverr or similar outsourcing services to have someone do it for you.
You could do a trial run and give them a set of 100 pictures to sort through. Check their work to see if they’ve done an accurate job before engaging their services for a larger number of files.