Google is pushing deeper into AI-powered travel planning, announcing on Monday a suite of new features designed to simplify everything from finding cheap flights to assembling full trip itineraries.
The company is taking its “Flight Deals” tool worldwide, introducing trip-building capabilities through its Canvas workspace inside AI Mode, and expanding agentic booking support for restaurant reservations and event tickets across the United States.
The move signals Google’s broader strategy to embed AI into the full arc of travel decisions, turning Search into a hands-on planning companion rather than a directory of links.
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Flight Deals, the AI-driven feature Google introduced in August for users in the United States, Canada, and India, is now rolling out to more than 200 countries and territories. The expansion covers major markets including the U.K., France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea, alongside support for over 60 languages.
The tool works by asking users to describe where, when, and how they want to travel. Once a query is submitted, the system surfaces the strongest bargains available across destinations. Google says the global rollout makes affordable travel discovery more accessible, particularly for users who want quick recommendations without sifting through dozens of fare calendars.
Canvas Becomes a Travel Planning Hub in AI Mode
One of the biggest shifts in Google’s travel play is the introduction of trip-creation tools inside its Canvas workspace in AI Mode. Canvas originally launched as a study-planning and information-organizing tool. It sat off to the side — a place for lists, schedules, and iterative research.
Now it’s stepping into the travel lane.
To use it, users describe the kind of trip they want and select “Create with Canvas.” Google says the system instantly assembles a travel plan inside the Canvas panel, pulling in real-time data from Search, pricing and availability for flights and hotels, and Google Maps inputs like location photos and reviews. The system then organizes suggestions based on the user’s criteria — from hotel comparisons by price and amenities to dining and activity ideas arranged by proximity to where the traveler plans to stay.
The idea is to reduce the friction of moving between tabs and apps. Users can ask follow-up questions about tradeoffs, such as choosing between a hotel that’s closer to a café they want to try or one nearer to hiking trails they plan to explore.
For now, travel planning in Canvas is limited to desktop users in the U.S. who are enrolled in the AI Mode experiment through Google Labs.
Agentic Booking Expands Across the U.S.
Google is also widening access to agentic booking in AI Mode, a capability it introduced earlier this year for a smaller test group in Labs. These tools let users book restaurant reservations, secure event tickets, or arrange beauty and wellness appointments — all by describing what they need in natural language.
With Monday’s announcement, all U.S. users now get access.
If someone asks for dinner options for a specific party size, date, time, neighborhood, and cuisine preference, AI Mode searches across reservation platforms to return real-time availability. It then builds a list of options that fit the criteria. From there, users can select the reservation they want and book directly from the interface.
Google says the feature is built to handle multi-variable planning without forcing users to jump into each restaurant’s page or third-party platform.
The Next Step: Booking Flights and Hotels Inside AI Mode
Google also outlined what’s next: direct flight and hotel booking inside AI Mode.
The company says users will soon be able to describe what type of flight or hotel they want, then browse and compare schedules, prices, room photos, amenities, and reviews within a single conversational interface. This would bring Google closer to a full end-to-end AI travel assistant — one that handles discovery, comparison, and booking in one place.
The new tools strengthen Google’s attempt to reimagine Search as a proactive agent, not just an index. And with travel being one of the most search-heavy consumer activities online, the company is positioning itself to capture more of that workflow in AI Mode, where users can plan with fewer steps and fewer clicks.