Destination and point of interest search

A system comprising:

• one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a travel query;
• determining, by operation of a system comprising one or more computers, an origin location, a time frame, and a travel location based at least in part on the travel query;
• identifying, by operation of the system, a plurality of cities associated with the travel location by querying a geographic data store that includes data mapping travel locations to cities;
• for each of the plurality of cities:
• determining, by operation of the system, a plurality of photographs that are geographically related to the city according to an index of photographs,
• selecting, by operation of the system, a selected photograph from the plurality of photographs based at least in part on a respective visual quality score, the visual quality score representing a degree of visual quality of the respective photograph, and a respective relevancy score, the relevancy score representing a degree of relevance to the city of the respective photograph;
• obtaining a description associated with the city,
• obtaining a hotel price associated with the city and with the time frame, and
• obtaining a flight price for a flight corresponding to the origin location, the city, and the time frame;
• and
• providing for each of the plurality of cities, a query result including the respective selected photograph, the respective description, the respective hotel price, and the respective flight price.

A non-volatile computer storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a travel query;
• determining, by operation of a system comprising one or more computers, an origin location, a time frame, and a travel location based at least in part on the travel query;
• identifying, by operation of the system, a plurality of cities associated with the travel location by querying a geographic data store that includes data mapping travel locations to cities;
• for each of the plurality of cities:
• determining, by operation of the system, a plurality of photographs that are geographically related to the city according to an index of photographs,
• selecting, by operation of the system, a selected photograph from the plurality of photographs based at least in part on a respective visual quality score, the visual quality score representing a degree of visual quality of the respective photograph, and a respective relevancy score, the relevancy score representing a degree of relevance to the city of the respective photograph;
• obtaining a description associated with the city,
• obtaining a hotel price associated with the city and with the time frame, and
• obtaining a flight price for a flight corresponding to the origin location, the city, and the time frame;
• and
• providing for each of the plurality of cities, a query result including the respective selected photograph, the respective description, the respective hotel price, and the respective flight price.