Google’s silent venture into travel
July 16, 2009 | Online Travel
Google is quietly wading into the world of travel with the launch of Google City Tours, a trip planning tool that seeks to make “holiday planning as easy as searching the Web.”
According to a description on Google Labs, the search engine’s experimental playground: “City Tours helps you identify points of interest and plan multi-day trips to most major cities. You just specify the location of your hotel and the length of your trip and City Tours will map out an itinerary for you.”
The tool is clearly in beta based on a test run. Typing in “Berlin” in the search box generated a two-day itinerary populated with only eight attractions (all museums), while “New York City” pulled up 21 attractions — mostly tourist traps like Times Square and Wall Street.
Get the full story at The New York Times
Also read “Why Google City Tours is Important to Tourism”, and “Google City Tours and what it means to travel agents.”
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