HomeToGo previews end-to-end travel journey AI companion, Super AI Sunny, and announces enhancements in collaboration with Google Cloud's Vertex AI

EQS-Media / 22.05.2024 / 07:00 CET/CEST HomeToGo previews end-to-end travel journey AI companion, Super AI Sunny, and announces enhancements in collaboration with Google Cloud's Vertex AI Luxembourg, 22 May 2024 - HomeToGo SE (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: HTG), the SaaS-enabled marketplace with the world’s largest selection of vacation rentals, today announced new updates on its product vision to build a fully AI-powered marketplace. Following its 2023 launch of AI Mode to revolutionize search for vacation rentals, HomeToGo debuted a first glimpse into building a comprehensive AI travel companion during its Capital Markets Day in 2023. Today HomeToGo officially unveiled its product plans to further fuel its distinction as the AI leader in the vacation rental industry:

• Announced the full vision for its future AI companion for the complete travel journey: Super AI Sunny. This AI-powered sidekick will intuitively guide HomeToGo guests through every aspect of travel planning, including search, booking and even post-booking support.
• As a step towards the Super AI Sunny vision, HomeToGo today revealed its first beta version with AI Sunny, an upgrade to its existing guest support chatbot, Sunny. As a new AI-powered travel assistant for supporting guests while booking, AI Sunny is powered by the same trusted AI platform as HomeToGo’s AI Mode is for search.
• Announced a collaboration with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI on the Company’s path to building a fully AI-powered marketplace.
• Launched new product upgrades with complementary brands to fuel its value as the go-to destination for holistic travel planning, including SQUAKE, komoot, and WeatherPromise.

Dr. Patrick Andrae, Co-Founder & CEO of HomeToGo: “At HomeToGo we don’t see AI as a trend but as a transformative shift with endless opportunities to empower our travelers and supply partners. The key for any AI endeavor is to constantly update your understanding about where model innovation of the likes of OpenAI, Meta or Google ends and where your own innovation can begin. We’ve earned a reputation in our industry as AI pioneers, having been the first to launch an AI product that revolutionized vacation rental search with AI Mode, making valuable learnings very early. Now, we’re complementing AI Mode for search to booking by upgrading our guest relations chatbot to an AI-powered travel assistant. Looking ahead, we plan to combine these technologies plus our invaluable learnings to build Super AI Sunny, an AI-powered sidekick that is always available as a personal travel assistant, for comprehensive travel planning from search to booking to post-booking. By combining the core vacation rental data only available to HomeToGo with the rapidly growing power of various LLMs out there, we continue to leverage new and useful advancements in AI as quickly as possible. Our extensive history with AI and the fact that we don’t wait for big, fancy launch dates means our travelers will be able to benefit from Super AI Sunny as soon as it’s ready for the market.”