Google's AI Tool Can Now Help You Plan Your Next Vacation — Here's How

 It will soon be easier to plan your next vacation from start to finish with artificial intelligence.

Google’s Bard AI service recently rolled out several new features that will benefit travelers both in booking their trip and along the journey itself. (Bard is a conversational artificial intelligence service, similar to ChatGPT, but the integration into a user’s data helps turn it into a personal concierge.)

Google announced that the Bard service can now be integrated with different Google products — such as Gmail, Google Flights, and Google Maps — for seamless integration when communicating with the AI service. For example, you can now create prompts to determine flight duration, preferences, and distance between destinations.

In a blog post by Yury Pinsky, Bard’s director of product management, the service shares an example of how the service can be used for trip planning: “If you’re planning a trip to the Grand Canyon (a project that takes up many tabs), you can now ask Bard to grab the dates that work for everyone from Gmail, look up real-time flight and hotel information, see Google Maps directions to the airport, and even watch YouTube videos of things to do there — all within one conversation.”

Being able to link Google Flights with Bard may help travelers find discounts on flights or find additional destinations to visit. Google Flights recently introduced new tools to predict when travelers can get the best deals on flights.

For travelers interested in trying Bard, it is available for free at bard.google.com.

It has previously reported on developments in artificial intelligence in the travel industry, such as Expedia's push for AI trip planning and how one traveler used ChatGPT to plan a trip go in London.