Microsoft search engine Bing’s next offshoot - Bing Travel, it has flight and hotel search, airfare price predictions, travel news and community, travel deals, and more.
Bing Travel helps consumers make smart travel decisions with flight and hotel search, airfare price predictions, travel news and community, travel deals, and more.
It is one of the initiatives that Microsoft is launching to differentiate Bing from traditional search engines which mostly provide information and links instead of tools that help visitors make more informed decision quicker. 
In addition to comprehensive flight and hotel search, Bing Travel leverages Farecast technology to provide airfare Price Predictors and hotel Rate Indicators.
“Bing Travel has a simple goal: help people make smarter, more informed decisions regarding travel,” said Hugh Crean, general manager of Bing Travel. “Travelers face plenty of challenges — from airport security and luggage restrictions to finding their hotel in an unknown city or trying to speak a foreign language. Researching and booking travel should be simple and easy, and now Bing Travel is here to help.”
According to Redmond, 45 percent of people use a search engine to select a flight or hotel. Out of those, a survey by Bing Travel pointed out that 52 percent of potential travelers search three or more sites before booking their airfare, and 42 percent of travelers spend between one and four weeks weighing their travel options (17 percent even spend more than one month).
Microsoft wants to reduce that time by centralizing comprehensive results based on searches for travel information in one place.
How it Works?
1. Search multiple travel sites for better pricing.
2. Check the price predictor, so that you know when to buy.
3. Compare and refine results (narrow results).
4. Buy directly with suppliers and save.
Some of Bing Travel’s key features include the following:
- Price Predictor
- Bing Travel uses Farecast technology to analyze more than 175 billion airfare observations and predict whether the price of a flight is going up or down.
- Rate Indicator
- The Rate Indicator analyzes historical rate data from thousands of hotels to determine whether the current price is a good deal, or not a deal at all. People can view a city map with details for each hotel, color coded by Rate Indicator data.
- Travel Deals
- Bing Travel features up-to-the-minute flight and hotel deals for nearly 40 cities around the world. For example, people will see that flights to certain destinations may be a record low, or more than $150 less than the average for a particular route. People can be sure that all Travel Deals are based strictly on science, not marketing.
- Fare Alerts
- Most airfare price drops last less than 48 hours, so people need to be ready to jump when a fare falls. Fare Alerts will notify people if the fares for their trips drop, allowing them to catch lower fares.
- Visit Bing Travel at http://bing.com/travel
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