Google rolls out new vacation-planning features to Search, Maps, and Gemini

Google rolls out a whole series of new functions – some powered by AI – during searches, cards and Gemini that are designed to help people plan their summer holidays. The new functions arrive when users turn to tools such as OpenAi’s Chatgpt for help planning travel.

The AI ​​overviews of Google Search, which display a snapshot of information at the top of the results page, can now help users to get travel ideas for certain regions or countries. From this week, users can search for something like “Making a travel schedule for Costa Rica with a focus on nature.”

From there you can view leaves and locations on an expandable map through photos and reviews. When you are ready to save a travel schedule, you can tap “Export” to share the recommendations via documents or Gmail. Or you can save them as a custom list in Google Maps.

The new function is available for English language questions in the US on mobile and desktop.

Google also makes Gemini’s Gems function available for everyone for free. A gem is a tool with which you can make adapted AI experts for every task within Gemini. This means that users can now set up a travel planner who can help them choose a destination to go and suggest what they have to pack.

Although Google has enabled users to get alerts on price falls for flights for some time, it is now going to do the same with hotels. Users now see a new option to follow the hotel prices for chosen dates and destinations. You can select filters for the search for hotel, such as star rates or access to the beach, for a specific area. If the prices fall, Google will send you an e -mail.

Hotel price training is being launched worldwide this week on mobile and desktop browsers.

Regarding cards, Google rolls the possibility for users to convert their screenshots into solid vacation plans. When planning a vacation, people often make screenshots to make places they want to visit, but can sometimes forget these photos in their camerar.

Now users can give cards access to their photos so that the app can automatically identify places that are mentioned in your screenshots, so that you want to view and save those you want to view and save them on a list. The places you save appear on the map, so that you can get an overview of your plans.

This function will be rolled out this week in the US in English on iOS and will soon be launched on Android.