AI visibility for hotels, explained.
Guests are starting to ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity where to stay before they ever open Google or Booking.com. This hub explains how AI answer engines decide which hotels to recommend, why most hotel websites are invisible to them today, and what independent hotels and small groups can do about it.
Glossary
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)
Optimizing a website so generative AI answer engines cite or recommend it — the AI-era counterpart to SEO.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)
Structuring content to be directly quotable as "the answer," used interchangeably with GEO in most 2026 industry usage.
AI visibility
Whether and how favorably a specific hotel is mentioned when a real traveler asks an AI assistant a travel-planning question.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's assistant; browses and cites live web sources in responses.
Claude
Anthropic's assistant; increasingly used for research-style travel planning.
Gemini
Google's assistant, integrated with Google Search and Maps data.
Perplexity
An answer engine built around live citations, popular for comparison-style queries.
Google AI Overviews
AI-generated summaries shown above traditional organic results in Google Search.
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