Google’s AI Mode evolves into travel agent with booking features

Google’s AI Mode is no longer content just answering your travel questions. It wants to book the hotel room too. The company is conducting a limited rollout of agentic hotel booking features in the United States, allowing users to compare options, select preferences, and complete reservations entirely within the AI interface. Partners include Booking.com, Expedia, Marriott, and IHG, meaning the inventory behind this experiment is anything but thin. From itineraries to transactions This didn’t happen overnight. Google laid the groundwork back in November 2025 when it introduced Canvas, a feature that lets AI Mode generate customized travel itineraries. Think of it as going from a search engine that shows you ten blue links about “best hotels in Lisbon” to one that builds your entire trip schedule, complete with restaurant suggestions and day-by-day plans. The agentic booking layer is the logical next step. Rather than handing users off to a partner site to fumble through a separate checkout flow, Google’s AI can now walk through the entire reservation process inside the same conversation. Users describe what they want, the Gemini model executes multi-step planning tasks, and the boo...