KAYAK at this time introduces Ask AI, a brand new conversational journey planning expertise designed to assist vacationers extra simply search, evaluate and guide journeys as curiosity will increase forward of this summer time’s World Cup.
Constructing on KAYAK’s mission to make journey search extra private and conversational, Ask AI is an business first that permits vacationers to plan their journey in a chat, whereas flight, resort and rental automobile outcomes replace dwell alongside the dialog, combining the comfort of AI with the ability of a standard outcomes web page.
Ask AI is launching as curiosity in World Cup journey will increase, and comes at a time when vacationers are planning extra complicated journeys to a number of cities. KAYAK knowledge already exhibits a 23% enhance in searches for flights to US host cities in comparison with final summer time, with costs and availability anticipated to alter quickly within the coming months.
“After launching our first pure language search expertise in October, we noticed vacationers more and more flip to AI to begin planning, however nonetheless depend on conventional searches and filters to guage choices and guide with confidence,” stated Matthias Keller, Chief Product Officer at KAYAK. “Ask AI is the subsequent evolution, combining each right into a single, seamless person expertise.”
Plan your journey with Ask AI
Whether or not you are touring to 1 match or extra, Ask AI will assist you go from inspiration to reserving in a single steady expertise. Seek for resorts close to a stadium, evaluate flights between host cities, or construct your total itinerary, all with out switching tabs.
With Ask AI, vacationers can:
Ask questions in pure language and refine their journey in actual time
Chat whereas outcomes are up to date dwell alongside the dialog
View present costs and bookable choices from tons of of journey companions
No have to restart searches or juggle tabs, only a quicker, extra intuitive technique to plan and guide journeys.
Observe World Cup journey tendencies in actual time
KAYAK can be launching a brand new dashboard to trace how followers are planning journey across the World Cup. Powered by KAYAK’s search and pricing knowledge, it highlights rising curiosity in journey, altering costs and the locations with the best curiosity in journey.
Early tendencies present:
Kansas Metropolis is rising as a breakout vacation spot, with flight searches up 168% year-over-year
Resort costs enhance in all host markets: 36% increased within the US, 55% in Canada and 119% in Mexico
Germany, Nice Britain and Colombia make up the highest three nations searching for flights to the US throughout the event
Collectively, Ask AI and the World Cup Traits Dashboard assist vacationers plan and evaluate journeys with real-time knowledge, making it simpler to make knowledgeable selections as costs and rates of interest change.