Google Trips Gets Its First Major Update Ever

Remember Google Trips? For those who need to refresh their memory, Google had first unveiled this mobile app back in September of last year. Basically, the app is designed to allow users to better manage their flight and hotel reservations by getting recommendations regarding interesting spots to check out or activities to be engaged in while traveling to a particular country or destination. 

Well, just this week, the app has just got its first major update since it was introduced. This time around, Google Trips now comes with a few additional features designed for assisting travelers better sort out their travel itineraries. Before this update, one of the things that made the app so cool was that it was connected to the user’s Gmail account, which essentially lets Google Trips import the user’s travel plans, including flight and hotel reservations, which are then organize into their corresponding trips within the app. 

With the new update, however, the app now comes with enhanced Gmail access capabilities, even allowing users to also look for bus and train reservations, which will be displayed in the reservations section of Google Trips, in between the listed hotel stays. This could prove handy especially for travelers who have places to go apart from the hotel or airport.

Google Trips also lets wander happy people input reservations by hand, especially in occasions when users do not have email confirmation (or when the confirmation is sent to another email address). Users simply tap the + sign in the app in order to manually input a restaurant, vehicle rental, hotel or flight. And while the user is typing in the details, Google also helps by auto completing the inputted information. The mobile app also provides space for free form notes, which can be helpful when people are adding other reservation information, like tickets to a local concert later in the evening, or details about tomorrow’s city tour.

Google Trips users are also given the ability to share information about their reservations with family, friends, or colleagues. To do this, users need only tap an arrow button located on the reservations screen, and details of their itinerary will be sent to a third party’s email address. If the recipient also uses Google Trips, they will be able to see the sender’s travel plans in their mobile devices.

For those who still do not have Google Trips, they can download the mobile app from Google Play or from iTunes.