AI.io, WEX New Travel App Allows Hotel Booking via Voice AI Tech

WEX Inc., a global provider of corporate payments solutions, announced a partnership with AI.io to launch Halo Travel, powered by Priceline Partner Network, an intelligent, voice-activated chat bot for travel. Halo Travel is the first app allowing booking hotels and flight strictly through voice. AI.io, named as one of the Top 10 AI solutions providers in 2018 and one of the Top 50 Best Companies to Watch in 2018, created the voice-activated product.

Halo Travel is device agnostic and can be used by anyone who has internet access, via Google Assistant, which makes it accessible by more than 500 million people. Users can simply say, “Hey Google, Talk to Halo Travel,” and their entire travel transaction can be processed via voice – without having to reach for a laptop. WEX’s virtual payments technology is a key component to conducting the purchase by facilitating the payment from Halo Travel to the Priceline Partner Network.

Halo Travel users can book flights or hotels quickly and efficiently. The intelligent AIs learn travel habits and patterns of users leading to extreme personalized travel assistance. The result is an engaging, and speedy way to book travel on any device at any time – and all you need is a voice.

United States travelers are interested in using voice for travel-related tasks. According to Phocuswright’s The State of Voice In Travel, more than half of travelers are comfortable requesting general information using a voice-powered digital assistant. However, only a fifth to a third of travelers are actively using voice for tasks like searching for or booking travel products. For the first time, Halo Travel’s proprietary machine learning and artificial intelligence neural network allows travelers the opportunity to personalize their travel needs using complex voice tasks.