Google Wants To Help You Plan Your Next Vacation
Google is trying to make planning your next trip a little less stressful. The search giant, which turned 20 this week , is adding suggestions directly to your searches and created a landing page for flight trends and hotel options as the winter holidays approach. In February 2018, Google aligned its vacation planning tools. The company realised that unless you pay a premium for a package holiday, there are so many elements involved that vacations can be a pain to plan. And now it’s improving its planning tools again. “There are so many travel booking resources out there it can feel like you spend hours researching flights, hotels and sites before you feel prepared to book your trip,” Berna Erol, product manager, Google Travel, and Emmanuel Marot, product manager, Google Hotels, wrote in a blog post . “In fact, 46 percent of leisure travelers globally think travel planning takes too long, according to our recent research with Phocuswright. To make trip planning fa...