Articles tagged “google”

Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at New York City’s new tourism challenges, AI-powered Google Maps, and an old solution to selling travel.

"Conversational search is about to get wildly useful and cleverly orchestrated across maps, points of interest, personalization, geo-location and enriched content."

Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Google’s Instagram inspiration, Club Med’s upscaling, and Malaga’s sustainable tourism support.

The travel industry has long hoped for something to counter-balance the pecking order in Big Tech. It's not assured, but this time around generative AI could make it happen.

The mobile swipeable story format has taken over social media, and now it has come to Google Travel, as well. It’s not groundbreaking, but it gives users an option to search for hotels in a way they may prefer.

Skift has been following the unfolding relationship between generative AI and the travel industry, but this is only the beginning.

Google has the data to understand exactly how the travel industry has changed post-pandemic — and how its technology needs to change with it.

Google has been tracking flight prices for a considerable period so now it is backing up its data with real money. It's real money, but a pittance for Google.

Google released Bard this week but has yet to integrate generative AI into its search engine as Microsoft has done with Bing and ChatGPT. But the workings of Bing’s travel itinerary suggestions are less than ideal, so Google has time to catch up.

Google is starting to release the chatbot Bard, its rival to ChatGPT.