Google wants your next vacation to be curated, budgeted, and booked in Search

Google has already introduced AI-powered functionality to help you find the perfect gift for your loved ones this holiday season. Hot on its heels, the Mountain View, California-based tech giant now wants to give you new ways to plan your vacation trips with AI in Search.

Google is introducing three new upgrades, spread across Search’s AI mode and Google Flights. The latter only gets one of the three major upgrades, so let’s go through those first!

Find airline tickets with AI-powered flight deals

Now in more countries

Google launched Flight Deals, an AI-powered flight search solution, in August this year. The tool aims to make the process of obtaining airline tickets a little less intimidating, mainly by allowing users to put forward their ticketing needs in a conversational manner.

So instead of manually entering information like travel cities, general dates, and the like, simply type in prompts like “A week-long trip this winter to a city with great food, just non-stop” or “I want to see cherry blossoms in Japan in four weeks.”

Until now, Flight Deals have been exclusive to the US and Canada. Today, Flight Deals began rolling out to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, “including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan and Korea, along with support for more than 60 languages.”

Build your travel plans with Canvas in AI mode

Search’s AI mode gained ‘Canvas’ in July this year, which is essentially a dynamic side panel where you can organize important plans and projects. Information is retained so that in subsequent sessions you can pick up where you left off and expand your plans as you go.

According to Google, you can now use Canvas to create and refine travel plans customized to your needs. You can tell the AI ​​mode what kind of trip you want to take and what recommendations you’re looking for, then tap Create with Canvas.

Help me plan a girls trip to Phoenix with 3 friends – March 6-9, we want to be in an area that is within walking distance of nightlife. We want to do some different walks, try some good brunch spots and visit some thrift or antique shops.

Once created, the Canvas will highlight all relevant real-time information, including flights, hotels, photos, reviews and other useful information from sites around the web.

Travel planning support in Canvas is now available for desktop users in the US with the AI mode experiment enabled in Labs.

More help from officers is on the way

Shortly after rolling out AI-powered help to check whether a product you’re looking for is in stock nearby or not, Google is introducing the ability to turn plans into good bookings with agent AI.

Google’s AI mode can now record your restaurant reservation questions and “search multiple reservation platforms and websites to find real-time availability for options that meet your criteria.”

So, for example, you should be able to add a prompt like “Find a dinner reservation in Little Havana this Saturday for 5 people with local Cuban food and live music,” and the AI ​​tool should be able to give you an overview of some of the top matches, complete with reservation integration with partners like OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, Booksy, Fresha, and Vagaro.

Agent bookings for restaurants are rolling out across the US this week. The tech giant added that in the future it will be possible to complete the booking of flights and even hotels directly in AI mode. However, it is currently unclear when.