Yatra Is Building AI Agents That Don't Just Plan Your Trip—They Complete It
Gadgets Now April 07, 2026 09:41 PM
The company has announced a partnership with Google Cloud, deploying Gemini on Vertex AI across its consumer and corporate platforms. The stated ambition is agentic AI—systems that move through multi-step workflows autonomously rather than waiting for a human to confirm each step.
DIYA Uses Function Calling to Execute Bookings Directly Through Yatra's Internal APIsDIYA, Yatra's AI bot series, is the main vehicle for this. It uses Gemini's natural language processing to interpret layered travel requests—say, a multi-city itinerary with a hotel within a specific budget—and execute them through Function Calling, which plugs directly into Yatra's backend in real-time. RAG keeps DIYA's responses tied to Yatra's proprietary data, including corporate travel policies, so it doesn't go rogue with suggestions that blow the travel budget.
RECAP's New OCR and Voice Features Cut the Manual Work Out of Expense FilingRECAP, Yatra's expense management platform, gets the more quietly useful upgrade. Gemini's vision AI and OCR let it scan receipts and extract data on the spot. Voice-based expense logging is new too—employees dictate the details, RECAP fills in the form. For enterprises running large traveling workforces, that reduction in manual entry adds up fast.
Google Cloud India MD Sashi Sreedharan described the collaboration as "moving beyond basic automation to true agentic assistance." Yatra's proprietary enterprise data, notably, stays off Google's public training pipeline—a clause that will matter to the corporate clients Yatra is squarely pitching this at.
