Booking Holdings Plans $100M Investment In New AI Travel Agent Vayo

The waitlist opens today at vayo.com for the personal travel agent built for trips, not tasks, that organizes everything you've booked, learns how you travel and never stops working for you

SEATTLE, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG) today announced a planned $100M* investment in its new company Vayo, which is launching in private beta with a waitlist now open at vayo.com. Vayo is where your trips live: a personal travel agent that knows how you travel and makes every trip better before you have to ask. Unlike a chatbot that answers questions in walls of text or an AI assistant that completes individual tasks, Vayo holds every trip together and keeps working on it long after the planning is done.

Planning a trip often means piecing together flights, hotels, activities and reservations across multiple channels, while keeping track of confirmation numbers, plans still in progress and details yet to be booked. Vayo calls the time, effort and mental load of managing it all a "planning tax." Vayo takes on that work, bringing your existing reservations together from your inbox, filling in what's missing and watching prices. Because every booking is connected, Vayo sees how one change affects everything else: when a flight changes, Vayo flags the late check-in and the dinner reservation now at risk. It's like a thousand travel agents working for you, with the care of one who truly knows you.