Yatra brings Google's Gemini AI to travel booking and expense management
Yatra has partnered with Google Cloud to overhaul how Indians plan, book, and expense business travel—using Gemini on Vertex AI as the engine behind it all.
The tie-up puts Google's multimodal AI at the center of two of Yatra's core products: DIYA , its conversational booking agent, and RECAP , its corporate expense tool. Both are being rebuilt to do more than surface information—they're designed to actually execute tasks.
DIYA books flights, manages cancellations, and stays within your company's travel policyDIYA uses Gemini's natural language capabilities to handle multi-step travel requests in a single conversation. Ask it to find a flight, check it against your company's policy, and complete the booking—it strings those steps together via Function Calling , which lets it talk directly to Yatra's internal APIs in real-time. Retrieval-Augmented Generation keeps its answers grounded in Yatra's own travel databases and FAQs rather than generic internet results, which matters when policy compliance is involved.
RECAP can now scan receipts and log expenses by voiceOn the expense side, RECAP gets Gemini's vision analytics and OCR. Point your phone at a receipt, and it pulls out the relevant data automatically. Employees can also log expenses by voice—a practical upgrade for anyone filing a hotel bill at 11 PM after a long day of meetings.
Yatra CEO Siddhartha Gupta called it a move toward "a truly integrated travel ecosystem." The infrastructure runs entirely on Google Cloud, with Yatra's enterprise data kept out of Google's public model training pipeline.
The tie-up puts Google's multimodal AI at the center of two of Yatra's core products: DIYA , its conversational booking agent, and RECAP , its corporate expense tool. Both are being rebuilt to do more than surface information—they're designed to actually execute tasks.
DIYA books flights, manages cancellations, and stays within your company's travel policyDIYA uses Gemini's natural language capabilities to handle multi-step travel requests in a single conversation. Ask it to find a flight, check it against your company's policy, and complete the booking—it strings those steps together via Function Calling , which lets it talk directly to Yatra's internal APIs in real-time. Retrieval-Augmented Generation keeps its answers grounded in Yatra's own travel databases and FAQs rather than generic internet results, which matters when policy compliance is involved.
RECAP can now scan receipts and log expenses by voiceOn the expense side, RECAP gets Gemini's vision analytics and OCR. Point your phone at a receipt, and it pulls out the relevant data automatically. Employees can also log expenses by voice—a practical upgrade for anyone filing a hotel bill at 11 PM after a long day of meetings.
Yatra CEO Siddhartha Gupta called it a move toward "a truly integrated travel ecosystem." The infrastructure runs entirely on Google Cloud, with Yatra's enterprise data kept out of Google's public model training pipeline.
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