Google Offers New Travel-related Features To Search And Launches Its AI “Flight Deals” Tool Around The World

Google said on Monday that it is launching new AI-powered vacation booking and planning features in Search. The digital behemoth is making its AI-powered “Flight Deals” feature more widely available, enabling users to plan trips using its “Canvas” tool in AI Mode, and introducing agentic booking to a wider audience.

In August, Google introduced Flight Deals for the first time in the United States, Canada, and India. In order to assist customers in finding reasonably priced travel destinations, the company is now expanding the AI-powered search feature within Google Flights globally.

Users must first specify where, when, and how they wish to travel. AI will then be used by Flight Deals to show the best deals.

More than 200 nations and territories, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea, are currently receiving Flight Deals. Additionally, the tool is being supported in over 60 languages.

Regarding the new AI Mode features, Google says that users may now make travel plans using the integrated Canvas tool. Originally designed to help users create study plans and organize data from several sessions in a side panel, Canvas may also assist users in making travel plans.

Before choosing “Create with Canvas,” users must inform AI mode about the kind of journey they are interested in.

“Right away, you’ll get a plan in the Canvas side panel that brings together real-time Search data for flights and hotels, details from Google Maps like photos and reviews, and relevant information from sites across the web,” Google explained in a blog post. “You’ll find suggestions that fit your criteria, like hotel comparisons based on pricing and amenities or ideas for restaurants and activities optimized by travel time from where you’re staying.”

After that, users can ask follow-up questions and receive assistance with trade-offs, such as selecting a hotel that is slightly farther from the hiking trails they want to explore but closer to a brunch spot they want to try.

Users who have chosen to participate in the AI Mode experiment in Labs can use Canvas for desktop travel planning in the United States.

Google also declared that more users will have access to AI Mode’s agentic features. Google stated earlier this year that users who opted into Labs could now use AI Mode to make appointments for beauty and wellness, restaurant bookings, and event tickets. The company is now offering this feature to all users in the United States.

Dinner reservations can be made by users based on a variety of criteria, including party size, preferred cuisine, date, time, and location. After that, AI Mode will look through several reservation systems to determine the current availability of restaurants that fit the query. After that, a carefully chosen selection of options appears.

Google says that it will eventually enable direct booking of hotels and flights in AI Mode. After describing their needs, users will be able to compare several hotels or flights and browse details such as schedules, prices, room pictures, amenities, and reviews.