Google Flights will now warn travellers about expected price increases to help you book flights before they become too expensive. The new feature was revealed today alongside a slew of other additions to the service, including tips for finding the best rates for a particular route, and improvements to Google Hotels. According to the firm, the move aims to make travel planning less stressful for the upcoming holiday season, and will allow users to find and track flights on the go. Google Flights will now warn travellers about expected price increases to help you book flights before they become too expensive. Google Flights will notify users of expected and actual price changes for their desired flight or route.

The launch of Google's app called Google Trips is, on the surface, just another travel app helping you organize your trip. But, really this is not what it is at all. Google's universe, these days, is being powered by machine learning algorithms everywhere. Being what we can best imagine as localized artificial intelligence programs they also inform each other and sync seamlessly from different regions of the Googleverse to provide a seamless experience. So Gmail (AI enhanced, these days), talks to Google Maps and Google Search, Google Now and even Chrome to better understand what the end user is doing it provides a helpful AI assistant in the guise of an app that aims to take the stress away from working out the details of travel so that you can focus instead on what is truly important: the content of your trip.

Vacations are supposed to reduce stress, not create it. Just planning a vacation can be pretty darn stressful. Now, Google wants to remove all those vacation anxieties--or at least some of them. Today, the company launched Google Trips, a new mobile app dedicated to trip planning. You key in where you want to go, and it helps you arrange everything from hotel and dinner reservations to sightseeing.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google wants you to take a new companion along on your next vacation: A travel app that plans each day and each excursion. With Google Trips, available Monday on iOS and Android, you can build an itinerary from flight information and hotel and car reservations retrieved from your email and then discover places to go and things to see while you are on the go. Google is not the only technology company trying to book more space on your smartphone. There's been a boon in travel planning apps in recent years. In June, Yahoo rolled out Yahoo Radar that, like Google Trips organizes reservations and taps partners such as Yelp and TripAdvisor to highlight must-see sights and nearby restaurants.

You might have heard of travel virtual assistants Pana and Lola but you will definitely have heard of Google Allo and Assistant. If Google Trips is being seen as the app to end all other in-destination apps, then should Allo and Assistant put to rest travel-specific concierge and chat-based apps? The audience at last week's SITA 2016 Air Transport IT Summit was treated to a demo of how Assistant might work for travellers. Treated because it was, it seems, only the second time the system was getting an airing. The job title alone of Marcin Brodziak, the senior engineer from Google who presented at the Summit, is quite telling in itself – engineering lead of conversational travel.