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Google Launches AI Travel Tools for Search, Maps, and Gemini

New features include itinerary creation, screenshot recognition, hotel price tracking, and free customizable AI assistants.

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Overview

  • Google Search now offers AI-powered tools to create travel itineraries for entire regions or countries, which can be saved or exported to other Google services.
  • Google Maps introduces screenshot recognition, allowing users to identify locations in saved images and organize them into trip planning lists.
  • Hotel price tracking has been added globally, enabling users to receive alerts when prices drop for selected dates and destinations through Google’s search tools.
  • Gemini AI now provides free customizable AI assistants, called Gems, to help with tasks like destination selection and packing recommendations.
  • Google Lens expands its language support to include Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish, enhancing AI-powered information delivery.