Google Adds Canvas AI Trip Builder — Here’s How It Works

Squad, Google is straight-up weaponizing holiday travel this year — but like… in a helpful way?

Their new AI Mode in Search now lets you describe your dream trip — think: “I want a cheap flight to Lisbon, lots of pastries, zero stress” — and with one tap on “Create with Canvas”, it spits out a full itinerary like it’s been quietly stalking your Pinterest boards.

We’re talking:

All neatly laid out in this side-panel Canvas doc that feels like the world’s calmest travel planner. And because it’s Google, you can tweak literally anything.

Want budget hotels with decent WiFi? Done. Want museums within walking distance because your feet refuse to suffer this year? Easy. Want activities that don’t require waking up at 6 AM? It’ll fully respect your sleep agenda.

If you’re in the US and opted into AI Mode in Labs, this is already live on desktop — and every itinerary you sketch up gets saved in your AI Mode history so you can pretend you’re definitely taking that Bali trip one day.

And that’s not even the end of Google’s travel glow-up.

AI Mode already handles things like tickets and local appointments, but starting this week, restaurant reservations are rolling out to all US users. Google shows you a list of options and then hands you over to partners like OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek… basically all the usual suspects.

And they’re not stopping there. Google’s teaming up with Booking.com, Expedia, Marriott, Wyndham, and more to bring agentic booking to flights and hotels too.

Plus, they’re rolling out AI-powered Flight Deals to 200+ countries in 60+ languages.

So uh… yeah. Other Travel apps are absolutely sweating right now.

Big picture?

Google’s trying to turn trip-planning into a one-stop, AI-powered command center — and honestly, it’s giving the “future of travel just arrived early.”

So how are you planning your next trip?

With AI or not, well you won’t know the perks (or the chaos) until you try it right?