{"id":63441,"date":"2025-10-06T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63441\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:27:09","slug":"expedia-partners-with-perplexity-for-comet-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63441\/","title":{"rendered":"Expedia partners with Perplexity for Comet launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expedia Group has partnered with Perplexity<\/a> on the launch of Comet<\/a>, its free, downloadable browser and artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. To encourage use, Expedia<\/a> is giving travelers an opportunity to cash in on their download of the AI browser with Silver status in OneKey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first-time we have opened our loyalty program to a partner,\u201d said Clayton Nelson, VP of strategic partnerships for Expedia Group. \u201cThis unique, multi-layered partnership brings loyalty, advertising and innovation together in one place, so travelers get rewarded just for experimenting with agentic AI tools.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Perplexity, Comet can help users<\/a> compare destinations and individual travel elements such as hotels and also provide travel itineraries with personalized recommendations. Comet can also \u201cseamlessly\u201d book a trip. The browser and AI assistant includes a \u201cTravel\u201d interface under the home tab, which includes \u201cTrending Destinations\u201d and \u201cInspiration\u201d sections and a search bar.<\/p>\n

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The AI tool is available on desktop, and Perplexity said it will be available on mobile<\/a> \u201csoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Expedia Group\u2019s collaboration with Perplexity comes as Nelson said the company is seeing generative AI traffic growing quickly and converting at \u201cstrong rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cConsumer search behavior is shifting to genAI search engines and this is especially true in travel,\u201d Nelson said.<\/p>\n

Nelson said the complicated and time-consuming nature of travel planning can be simplified with Comet.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerplexity Comet browser makes it easy by combining natural language search with agentic AI, letting travelers type what they\u2019re looking for while Comet searches Expedia, surfaces options and helps them to book a trip,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And, the use of AI is not limited to the browser itself: Travelers can browse on Expedia and switch between AI assistance and traditional browsing, according to Nelson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese products are evolving quickly, expanding quality and use cases,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cWe believe that great travel experiences can be unlocked through new agentic AI tools while ensuring the traveler is always in control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Major travel companies have already partnered with platforms like Perplexity on other technology AI launches.<\/p>\n

SelfBook and Tripadvisor partnered with Perplexity<\/a> to offer hotel booking in the spring. And in January, Tripadvisor, Priceline, Booking.com, Hipcamp and Uber, partnered with OpenAI when it launched its Operator tool<\/a>. Tripadvisor also partnered with Perplexity in January<\/a> to offer enhanced trip planning.<\/p>\n

Expedia has made a concerted effort<\/a> to implement AI as well. After CEO Ariane Gorin shared AI strategies for 2025 in February<\/a>, Expedia Group shared AI updates as part of its product release in the spring. Upgrades included an integration with OpenAI\u2019s Operator and Microsoft Copilot Actions, Expedia Trip Matching and an AI agent on Hotels.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company was also among the first to implement generative AI when it incorporated a ChatGPT plugin<\/a> and integrated a large language model into the Expedia app<\/a> in 2023. In September 2023, the company also added a natural language interface<\/a> to the Expedia, Vrbo and Hotels.com apps.<\/p>\n

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Join us at The Phocuswright Conference, November 18-20 in San Diego, where Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive of IAC and Expedia Group, will sit down for an executive interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expedia Group has partnered with Perplexity on the launch of Comet, its free, downloadable browser and artificial intelligence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[218,43594,43593,43595,43596,1223,9674,9668,9675,43597,61,60,43601,43604,3045,1148,202,43,9676,43598,7330,80,43602,43605,19378,43603,43599,6114,43600],"class_list":["post-63441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-booking-holdings","tag-booking-com","tag-expedia","tag-expedia-group","tag-generative-ai","tag-ground-transportation","tag-home-2nd-tier","tag-hotel","tag-hotels-com","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-it-services","tag-loyalty","tag-machine-learning","tag-marketing","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-online-travel-agency","tag-priceline","tag-search","tag-technology","tag-tours-and-activities","tag-travel-booking","tag-travel-inspiration","tag-travel-planning","tag-tripadvisor","tag-uber","tag-vrbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}