Kayak's Ask AI: World Cup Travel Planning Made Easy

0:00Kayegg just dropped a new tool called Ask AI, perfect timing with the FIFA World Cup high building for this summer. It's a chat-based planner that pulls up flights, hotels, and rental cars in real time as you talk through your trip ideas. Based out of Stanford, this online travel aggregator is blending natural language chats with their booking system to make planning seamless. The rollout hits right as World Cup travel demand surges. Their data shows flight searches to US host cities jumping 23% compared to last summer, and prices plus availability are shifting, fast in the months ahead. Travelers are loving the ease type in what you want, tweak your itinerary on the fly, and compare deals from providers without jumping tabs, or starting over, is drawing buzz as fans gear up for matches across North America. Kayegg's also unveiling a dashboard tracking World Cup trends, spotlighting hot spots like Kansas City, where flight searches spiked 100, 68% year over year.

1:01Hotel rates are climbing too, 36% in the US, 55% in Canada, and a whopping 119% in Mexico. Interests pouring in from Germany, the UK, and Colombia. With Kayegg under booking holdings, expect more tools like this to keep pace with the soccer frenzy, so lock in those trips before cost climb even, higher. I'm Corey with the story, and you've been listening to Hartford News today, AI-powered local news.