Google today announced the launch of its travel guide application ‘Google Trips’ making it easier for travellers to plan their vacation and get curated travel options as per their interest. The new app with added features will help travellers find suggestions on destinations to hotels and flight options with rates and recommendations on places to visit.
For those planning a vacation, "Plan a trip" feature will help users find trip prices for the selected destination for the next six months, helping them get hotel and flight prices. In addition, Google has also introduced several updates to its existing travel features including ‘Google Destinations’, a travel-planning feature inside mobile search, and has expanded coverage for its hotel and flight search to more countries in Asia.
Destinations on Google
Users can Search for the continent, country, or city they would like to travel to and add the word ‘destination’ or ‘vacation’ to see an easy-to-browse collection of options. Through this feature, users can customise their search by planning their vacation catering to their specific interests and Google will suggest destinations that match.
Expanding Google hotel search to more countries in Asia
Google Flights and hotel search on Google is designed to help price-conscious travellers make the best decision for upcoming trips. For the budgeted travellers, hotel search on Google results now automatically identifies deals when a hotel’s price is lower than historical prices or when a partner has discounted rates compared to the existing market price for the hotel. Additionally, Deals and Tipsfilters have been introduced to allow users to quickly see only hotels that have been identified as having good deals and the Tips feature shows hotel ratings or whether changing travel dates could get a better price.
Google Trips - your travel assistant
With the help of this travel assistant, Google Trips tries to make a traveller’s vacation simpler by doing things like bundling all their reservations in one place — available offline — saving users from having to dig through their emails at the check-in desk.
A feature called ‘Day Plans’, recommends places to visit based on the search items saved on their Google Maps. Users can also modify the itinerary based on the weather, the people they are traveling with and places they have visited. In addition, Trips provides details on how to get around, etiquette for tipping and other useful information — all available offline.
Google Trips is currently available globally, in English. Users can download it from the Play Store or the App store.
