Google’s new AI travel features optimize travel routes and flight deals

Google’s new set of AI features aims to help you create a complete vacation plan, including finding flight deals and making dinner reservations.

In a blog post on Monday, Google unveiled a travel-focused extension to its planning tool Canvas, which is already capable of compiling information for planning purposes. After you enter a rough idea for a vacation, Canvas can use it to create a trip suggestion based on the ideas you give it.

During a demonstration of the feature, I asked a Google representative to use the Canvas feature to plan a five-day vacation to Tokyo that focused on visiting restaurants that serve ramen and pizza. After entering this query into Google’s AI mode, the Canvas feature activated and made a visual daily suggestion of various restaurants specializing in both and how to visit them.

To make it more interesting, I asked the representative to then ask the AI ​​feature to include the locations of several…