Adaptive Booking Guidance (ABG) is an intelligent guidance layer for Hotels.com natural language search (NLS), designed to work alongside NERD, the service that resolves destinations from a traveller's query. It addresses a pivotal moment in travel search: when a traveller knows the kind of trip they want, but are still unsure of where to go. Instead of silently collapsing an ambiguous request into one destination, ABG gives the traveller meaningful, explainable paths to explore, then handing their choice back to the existing hotel search flow.

Note: This was an internal hackathon prototype, not a live production launch. Hotel content, pricing and availability shown in the prototype are illustrative; no post-launch or experiment results are claimed here.