By Rob Pegoraro
Publication Date: 2026-04-17 14:00:00
You may want a vacation from AI, but first, Google would like you to try using AI to plan your vacation. The company’s annual search trends for summer travel tout rising interest in leveraging AI tools to plan trips—and tip expanded availability of some of its own AI travel features.
A blog post published Friday on search trends reported a 350% growth in search interest for “AI travel assistant” and “AI concierge” since 2025, and a 315% jump in queries about using AI to book flights over the last month alone.
Another post highlighted Google’s efforts to provide those travel tools; it suggests using the Canvas feature of its AI Mode search to customize an itinerary based on your description of an ideal stay in a place. As with any AI chatbot, you should not accept those answers uncritically.
Once you’re there, Google recommends employing the new Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature to find restaurants and then book reservations without leaving Google…