Google's AI Mode Can Now Plan Your Entire Trip
That's one more AI tool to help organise your entire holiday.
Google has been steadily expanding its AI Mode over the past few months, and it’s starting to feel like the company sees it as the future of Search. Features that were once limited to small experiments are now rolling out to more countries, more languages, and even to regular Search users without needing premium access.
Now, Google is pushing things even further by making AI Mode genuinely useful for one of the most chaotic tasks we all deal with: planning and booking a trip, all from a simple prompt.
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The biggest headline feature here is the introduction of travel planning directly inside AI Mode. With the new Canvas tool baked into Search, users can describe the kind of trip they want, say, “a three-day getaway in Lisbon with good food and museums”, and Google instantly builds an itinerary in a side panel. It pulls in real-time flight prices, hotel suggestions, Google Maps reviews, photos, activities, and even compares amenities for you.
From there, you can refine the plan with follow-up prompts like choosing a quieter neighbourhood or finding a hotel closer to a brunch spot you’ve had your eye on. It essentially turns Search into a flexible planning board instead of a jumble of tabs.
Alongside Canvas, Google is expanding its AI-powered Flight Deals tool globally. Originally available only in the U.S., Canada, and India, it now works in more than 200 countries and supports over 60 languages.
Users will be able to do things like simply describe their ideal trip with a prompt like, “affordable beach destination in March”, and the system surfaces real-time bargains. It’s Google’s way of turning flight discovery into a conversational search instead of a filtering marathon.
Google is also widening access to its agentic booking tools. U.S. users can now ask AI Mode to find restaurant reservations, event tickets, or beauty and wellness appointments across different platforms, and it pulls available slots into a neat shortlist. Google says flights and hotel bookings will eventually be handled the same way, with partners like Booking.com and Expedia already in the pipeline.
It's interesting to see how far AI Mode has come. It started as a simple way to get conversational help inside Search, but it’s slowly shaping into an all-purpose assistant that connects browsing, planning, and booking in a single flow. And it’s not just Google pushing in this direction. ChatGPT recently added support for using third-party apps directly inside its interface, which shows how fast this “do everything from one place” trend is growing. The difference, though, is that Google is doing it inside apps people already rely on every day, which could give it a smoother path to adoption. Still, only time will tell how that plays out.
Updates like this also raise an eyebrow about Google’s long-term strategy. With AI Mode becoming more capable inside Search, it’s starting to feel like Google might eventually be cannibalising its own Gemini app. At some point, the company may decide it makes more sense to fully merge Gemini into Search rather than maintaining two parallel AI experiences. That’s just a random thought for now, but the direction of these updates definitely makes the possibility harder to ignore.
Louis Eriakha
