KAYAK Launches Ask AI to Simplify Travel Planning Simply in Time for the World Cup

Conversational AI meets real-time journey search as journey curiosity surges throughout World Cup host cities

NORWALK, Conn., April 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — KAYAK at the moment launched Ask AI, a brand new conversational journey planning expertise designed to assist vacationers search, examine, and e-book journeys extra simply, as curiosity surges forward of this summer time’s World Cup.

Building on KAYAK’s mission to make journey search extra personalised and conversational, Ask AI is an business first that lets vacationers begin planning their journey in a chat—whereas flight, lodge, and rental automotive outcomes replace stay alongside the dialog, combining the convenience of AI with the ability of a standard outcomes web page.

Launching simply as journey curiosity ramps up across the World Cup, Ask AI arrives at a time when vacationers are planning extra advanced, multi-city journeys. KAYAK knowledge already reveals a 23% improve in flight searches to U.S. host cities in comparison with final summer time, with costs and availability anticipated to shift shortly within the months forward.

“After launching our first natural language search experience in October, we saw that travelers increasingly turn to AI to begin planning, but still depend on traditional search and filters to evaluate options and book with confidence,” mentioned Matthias Keller, Chief Product Officer at KAYAK. “Ask AI is the next evolution, combining both in a single, seamless user experience.”

Plan Your Trip with Ask AI
Whether you are touring to 1 match or a number of, Ask AI helps you progress from inspiration to reserving in a single steady expertise. Search for motels close to a stadium, examine flights between host cities, or construct your full itinerary—all with out switching tabs.

With Ask AI, vacationers can:

• Ask questions utilizing pure language and refine their journey in actual time
• Chat whereas outcomes replace stay alongside the dialog
• See up-to-date costs and bookable choices from lots of of journey companions

No restarting searches or juggling tabs—only a sooner, extra intuitive option to plan and e-book journey.

Tracking World Cup Travel Trends in Real Time

KAYAK can also be launching a brand new dashboard to trace how followers are planning journeys across the World Cup. Powered by KAYAK’s search and pricing knowledge, it highlights rising journey curiosity, shifting costs, and the locations seeing the largest spikes in curiosity.

Early tendencies present:

• Kansas City is rising as a breakout vacation spot, with flight searches up 168% year-over-year
• Hotel costs are climbing throughout all host markets: up 36% within the U.S., 55% in Canada, and 119% in Mexico
• Germany, the United Kingdom and Colombia are the highest 3 international locations trying to find flights to the U.S. in the course of the event

Together, Ask AI and the World Cup Trends Dashboard assist vacationers plan and examine journeys with real-time knowledge, making it simpler to make knowledgeable choices as costs and curiosity change.

About KAYAK
KAYAK, a part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is a number one journey search engine. With billions of queries throughout our platforms, we assist individuals discover their excellent flight, keep, rental automotive and trip package deal. Trusted by thousands and thousands of vacationers, the KAYAK app makes journey planning seamless on iOS and Android and we additionally assist enterprise vacationers with our corporate travel solution.

Methodology
Based on flight and lodge searches made on KAYAK within the interval between 12.5.2025 and 4.12.2026 for journey between 6.10.2026 and seven.20.2026. They had been in comparison with searches made within the interval between 12.5.2024 and 4.12.2025 with the journey interval between 6.10.2025 and seven.20.2025. Percentages for adjustments in searches and pricing are approximate.

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