Google Adds Trip-Planning Features for Pandemic-Weary Travelers
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A consumer habit of turning to Google first to look up pandemic-related travel restrictions may help establish Google in their minds as the brand to turn to first when planning a trip in normal times. Or at least that's Google's hope.
Google is adding a couple of tools to clue in travelers to pandemic-related information about flights, hotels, and destinations when researching and booking travel in the U.S. the UK, and some other selected markets within the next week.
"Users can now see the percentage of open hotels with availability and flights," wrote Richard Holden, Google vice president, product management, travel, in a blog post. Google bases the data on city and county-level information it analyzes from its flight search and hotel search data from the week before on a rolli
