After adding shopping features last week, Google is now upgrading AI Mode’s travel capabilities with Canvas.
AI Mode introduced Canvas earlier this year to help with creation and organization prompts. Google is now using this side panel for travel planning. When you “tell AI Mode what type of trip you’re planning and the recommendations you’re looking for,” a “Create with Canvas” button will appear.
Canvas will show flights and hotels, as well as photos and reviews from Google Maps. You’ll also get “relevant information from sites across the web.”
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.
As always, you can customize the plan by asking follow-up questions. Your Canvas can be accessed again from AI Mode history. This is available on desktop web in the US if you have the AI Mode experiment enabled.
The other announcement today is the launch of AI Mode’s agentic capabilities that leverage Project Mariner.
Specify what you’re looking for and other requirements in the prompt to have AI Mode “search across multiple reservation platforms and websites to find real-time availability for options that meet your criteria.” You can select from partners like: OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, Booksy, Fresha, and Vagaro.
Agentic restaurant booking is rolling out this week in the US without needing to join the lab after the August preview. However, you can enroll now to access event tickets and local (beauty + wellness) appointments.
Google shared today that it wants to add flight booking and hotel reservations directly to AI Mode “in the future.”
We’re working now with industry partners to build an experience where you can simply describe what you’re looking for to compare different flights or hotels and browse helpful information like schedules, prices, room photos, amenities and reviews. You’ll be able to follow up and refine your options, and then once you’re ready, you can quickly complete the booking with the partner of your choice.
The final announcement today is a global expansion of Flight Deals to “more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including the U.K., France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan and Korea, along with support for more than 60 languages.” Available in Google Flights, this is an AI-powered search tool where you just say “when and how you’d like to travel” to get deals.
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