Google has new AI search tools designed to help save time and money on travel. The company is expanding access to its bargain-hunting search feature Flight Deals to more than 200 countries following Google Flight’s rollout in the U.S., Canada and India. Google has also turned AI Mode’s Canvas into a natural language itinerary planner: tell it the type of trip you’d like planned, including recommendations of interest, then select the option to “Create Canvas” and it will build a custom itinerary using real-time search data — from flights suggestions to hotels, complete with info from Google Maps, photos and reviews.

“Travel planning with Canvas is available on desktop in the U.S. for those opted into the AI Mode experiment in Labs,” Google says in a blog post. Google launched Canvas in March as a Gemini workspace for displaying real-time coding and other output, including continuously updated educational curricula. It was then expanded as part of AI Mode in Search.

You can use Canvas to “refine the plan it develops, with follow-up questions or additional requests, like requesting hotel suggestions based on pricing and amenities, or activities based on travel time,” The Verge writes, explaining that “Google announced trip planning features for Gemini last year, but this pulls them closer to all of the people who use its search engine, which probably isn’t good news for other travel companies like Kayak and Expedia, which are also building their own AI-powered features.”

The global expansion of Flight Deals aims to help “flexible travelers” quickly find affordable destinations, the company says.

The search giant is also expanding access to agentic bookings, adding restaurant reservations and concert outings that can be finalized through Google partners including OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, Booksy, Fresha and Vagaro.

“Agentic booking for restaurants is rolling out this week on AI Mode in the U.S. (no Labs opt-in required), so you can easily make plans for family dinners, date nights, holiday brunches and more.” The event and local appointment bookings are, as announced earlier this month, only available to U.S. Labs users.

“The features aim to ease the most annoying parts of travel planning: comparing too many options, flipping between booking sites, and trying to figure out where to stay, eat, and what to do in between eating and sleeping,” TechRadar reports, emphasizing the fluid nature of Canvas, noting “It’s not a static spreadsheet. Canvas is interactive, so you can nudge it toward better brunch spots, make tradeoffs based on location, or ask the AI to update your plans if your flight dates shift.”