Travellers can find hotels close to their desired attraction or destination with a new tool launched by Google.

While most popular travel search engines can display the hotel’s location on a map, Google has gone one step further with its “Hotel Finder” filter experiment.

The more flexible travel-search options mean travellers can search directly for a point of interest such as a tourist attraction. Google then populates hotel results based on a 20-minute default distance from a point of interest.

With the ability to filter hotels by travel time, price, ratings and reviews as well as hotel class, the search method has been called “unique and useful” by reviewers such as searchengineland.com.

The transit time search is only available in cities where Google has partnered with local transit agencies to get their data in Google Maps. Where no transit data is available, it will display walking time.

Meanwhile Wego has tailor-made its sites in Australia and New Zealand to provide localised search results.

The “popularity” tool shows users search results most preferred by others and unique to their own country.