Tracked across 4 live AI engines

Hotel AI Visibility Checker

RevPARGenius Hotel AI Visibility shows you exactly how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok describe and recommend your hotel — and how to win the answer before your competitors do.

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The shift

Search moved. Most hotels didn't.

Travelers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity "where should I stay in [city]?" — and the assistant names a handful of hotels. If you're not one of them, you're invisible at the exact moment of choice, and you'll never see it in your booking data. RevPARGenius Hotel AI Visibility makes that invisible layer measurable.

What you see

Five numbers that decide whether you're found.

Visibility

The share of traveler questions where AI actually names your hotel.

Position

When you're named, where you rank in the answer — first, third, eighth.

Sentiment

How the AI describes you — scored, so you can see reputation shift.

Cited sources

The sites the AI reads to decide — Booking, TripAdvisor, your own site.

Citation source mix NEW

Where AI is pulling from — OTAs vs your own site vs review platforms vs trade press. Surface OTA leakage before it kills direct bookings.

How it works

We ask the questions your guests ask.

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We define the prompts
Real traveler questions for your market and guest type.
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We ask the AI engines 3× per week
The live, web-connected assistants — what a traveler sees today.
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We record the answers & citations
Word-for-word, timestamped, with the exact sources each engine used.
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You see your visibility & what to fix
Trends, competitor comparison, and the actions that win the next mention.

Read the full methodology →

Coverage

The assistants travelers actually use.

Tracked live through their own interfaces, with real citations.

ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Grok Google AI Overview Google AI Mode Copilot
Built for hotels

Not a generic tracker. A hospitality one.

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Traveler-intent prompts

We track the questions guests really ask, by market and segment — not corporate keywords.

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Comp-set aware

See your visibility against the exact competitors in your corridor, not a random list.

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Tied to action

Every gap comes with a fix — the content and signals that get you cited.

Real-data preview

See it on a real hotel

An anonymised sample from a real Brisbane serviced-apartment property scanned in June 2026. All scan data, competitor names, and metrics shown are real.

AI Visibility Score

0 /100
A real Brisbane property
0 of 16 valid checks mentioned

Competitor visibility

Emporium Hotel South Bank
56%
The Calile Hotel
50%
W Brisbane
31%
Novotel Brisbane South Bank
19%
★ Sample property (you)
0%

Recommended actions (4)

CRITICAL
Close the "where to stay in Brisbane for families" visibility gap
Content · 1 hour · Not started
Estimated +4 to 8 percentage points on mention rate within 30 days.
+ 3 more (2 High Content, 1 Low Schema)
Questions

AI visibility, explained.

What is AI visibility for hotels?
It's whether AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini name and recommend your hotel when a traveler asks where to stay. It's a different surface from Google rankings — and increasingly the one that decides the booking.
Which AI models does RevPARGenius Hotel AI Visibility track?
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok through their live interfaces with real citations, plus Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode and Copilot on higher plans.
How is this different from SEO?
SEO measures your Google ranking. AI visibility measures whether AI assistants actually name your hotel in their answers — the moment of choice you can't see in your booking data.
Can you also fix my visibility?
Yes. The dashboard shows the gap; RevPARGenius Hotel AI Visibility includes the content and structured data strategy that gets your hotel cited directly by AI.
How often does RevPARGenius check my hotel's AI visibility?
RevPARGenius runs your hotel's full prompt bank across all tracked AI engines three times per week — Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Each run captures the live response and citations, timestamped, so you can track changes over time rather than spot-checking manually.
Start tracking

See how AI describes your hotel today.

RevPARGenius tracks your hotel across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok — automatically, 3× per week — so you know exactly where you stand and what to fix.

Product Tour

See Hotel AI Visibility in action.

Seven screens. Real data from an actual Brisbane property. Everything you'll see in your own dashboard from day one.

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AI Visibility Check — run a live scan across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok
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AI Visibility Check
See your hotel's visibility score, mention rate, and score trend across completed runs — then trigger a fresh live check across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & Grok in one click. Auto-scheduled 3× per week.
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Competitor Visibility bar chart — Brisbane hotels ranked by AI mention rate
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Competitor Visibility
A ranked bar chart of every hotel in your competitive set — mention rate from 16 engine checks per run. Hotels winning your queries are named, scored, and one-click trackable. Frequently mentioned competitors you haven't added yet surface automatically.
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Recommended Actions — 4 prioritised content and schema fixes with effort and impact estimates
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Recommended Actions
Every visibility gap becomes a prioritised fix — CRITICAL, HIGH, or LOW — with estimated effort in hours and projected mention-rate uplift. Status updates automatically when your fix goes live and the next scan detects it.
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Tracked Prompts — 6 traveler search queries for Brisbane tracked across 4 AI engines
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Tracked Prompts
The exact traveler questions — "where to stay in Brisbane for families", "best boutique hotels in Brisbane" — asked across all four AI engines three times every week. Add your own or start from the curated defaults. Up to 50 prompts per property.
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Competitor Brands — 7 Brisbane hotels in the tracked competitive set
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Competitor Brands
Define your competitive corridor — up to 30 properties. RevPARGenius tracks every competitor's AI mention rate alongside yours across every run, so you always know who is gaining ground and which queries they're winning.
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Latest Results — colour-coded Gap/Positive/Neutral/Negative matrix per engine, with citation breakdown
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Latest Results
A colour-coded matrix — Gap, Positive, Neutral, Negative — per prompt, per engine. Below: sentiment distribution and citation source mix (OTAs vs your own site vs review platforms). Click any cell to read the full AI response, every citation categorised.
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Performance Over Time — monthly visibility score, visibility %, avg position, sentiment, and competitor gap chart
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Performance Over Time
Track visibility score, mention rate, average position, sentiment, and competitor gap across weekly or monthly periods. Every metric trended — so you can see whether your content and schema fixes are actually moving the needle.
AI Visibility Check
AI Visibility Check
Competitor Visibility
Competitor Visibility
Recommended Actions
Recommended Actions
Tracked Prompts
Tracked Prompts
Competitor Brands
Competitor Brands
Latest Results
Latest Results
Performance Over Time
Performance Over Time
What is hotel AI visibility?

The search surface your booking data can't see.

What is hotel AI visibility?

"Hotel AI Visibility measures how discoverable your property is across AI search engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok. Hotels with stronger AI visibility are more likely to be recommended when travellers ask AI where to stay."

The problem

Why Hotels Are Becoming Invisible in AI Search

Most hotel websites were not built for the AI era. These seven gaps are why your competitors appear in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers — and you don't.

Weak website authority

Low domain authority means AI systems and the indices they draw from rank your site lower as a source.

Missing schema markup

No LodgingBusiness, FAQPage or Speakable schema means AI engines can't efficiently extract your property details.

Inconsistent business info

Different names, addresses or phone numbers across the web reduce AI confidence in citing your property.

Poor or thin review signals

AI assistants use review volume and sentiment to assess property quality and decide whether to recommend you.

Lack of destination content

Hotels without location guides and area pages miss the destination intent queries that drive most AI hotel recommendations.

No FAQ-style answers on site

AI assistants prefer self-contained answer blocks. Sites without them are cited far less frequently.

Competitors already stronger

Every month competitors build structured content and consistent signals — compounding an advantage that grows harder to close.

How it works

How the Hotel AI Visibility Checker Works

We query the AI engines travellers actually use, with the prompts they actually ask — then surface exactly what each assistant says about your hotel and why.

ChatGPT visibility

Live queries via ChatGPT's web-connected interface. We record whether your hotel is named, its position, and the sources cited.

Gemini visibility

Tested across Google Gemini with real-time web retrieval — separate from Google Search results.

Perplexity visibility

Perplexity is the highest-citation AI assistant for hotel queries. We track mentions and the sources it draws from.

Grok visibility

X's AI assistant with real-time web access — increasingly used by travellers in certain markets.

AI mention rate

The share of tracked prompts where your hotel is named — your primary AI visibility metric.

AI citation strength

How prominently your property is featured — first mention, repeated reference, or buried at the bottom.

Competitor mentions

Which competitors are winning the queries you should be winning — and what's making them more citeable.

Recommendation frequency

How often your hotel receives an explicit recommendation vs. a passing mention — the metric tied to booking intent.

Score methodology

What Your Hotel AI Visibility Score Measures

Your Hotel AI Visibility Score is a composite of eight signals — each one actionable, each one tied to a specific fix.

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AI mention rate

Share of traveller-intent prompts where an AI assistant names your hotel.

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Citation strength

Position and prominence of your hotel within AI-generated answers.

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Review signals

Volume, recency, and sentiment of reviews across platforms AI engines draw from.

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Website authority

Domain strength and crawlability — the technical foundation AI indexing depends on.

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Structured data

LodgingBusiness, FAQPage and Speakable schema coverage on your hotel website.

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Destination authority

Presence of location content that positions your property as an area reference point.

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Competitor visibility

How your citation rate and position compares to the hotels winning your market's AI queries.

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Booking intent prompts

Performance on the specific prompt types most likely to convert AI mentions into direct bookings.

How AI recommends hotels

How Hotels Get Recommended by AI

Answer

AI systems use structured content, consistent business information, review quality, destination relevance, and FAQPage schema to decide which hotels to mention. Properties with answer-formatted content — self-contained paragraphs after each heading — and cited sources are cited more frequently. A 2024 Princeton/KDD study found named expert quotes lift AI citation rates by 41% and answer capsules by 28%. SEO remains the technical prerequisite: if a page can't be indexed, it can't be cited.

Why you may not appear

Why Isn't My Hotel Showing Up in ChatGPT?

Five common reasons — each one diagnosable and fixable.

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Your hotel website may not answer traveller questions clearly.
AI assistants prefer self-contained answer paragraphs (60–90 words) after each heading. Generic marketing copy is not cited.
2
Your property details may not be consistent across the web.
Inconsistent name, address, or phone number across Google Business Profile, TripAdvisor, and booking platforms reduces AI confidence.
3
Your website may lack schema markup.
Missing FAQPage, LodgingBusiness, and Speakable schema means AI engines can't efficiently extract or verify your property details.
4
Your reviews may not describe the right amenities or location.
AI assistants use review content to understand what your property offers. Thin or generic reviews reduce recommendation confidence.
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Competitors may have stronger destination content.
Hotels with local area guides, attraction pages, and event-related content earn destination authority — the signal most associated with AI recommendations for location-intent queries.
SEO vs GEO vs AEO

SEO vs GEO vs AEO for Hotels

Three distinct search surfaces. A hotel that optimises all three has the widest possible distribution — before a traveller opens a single booking site.

Optimisation What it does
SEO Ranks your hotel in Google's blue-link results. The technical foundation — if Google can't index your page, it can't appear in AI Overviews and Copilot either.
GEO
Generative Engine Optimisation
Gets your property cited by AI-generated answers in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot and Claude — the recommendation that happens before a booking site is opened.
AEO
Answer Engine Optimisation
Makes your property the direct answer shown above results when travellers ask AI where to stay — the highest-visibility position in any search surface.
Plans from $79/month. No setup fees. Month-to-month. Free first scan.
All plans include 4 AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok). See full pricing →
Built for hotels

Built for Every Type of Hotel Property

Whether you run a single boutique property or a multi-site portfolio, the same AI visibility gap applies — and the same signals fix it.

Independent Hotels Boutique Hotels Resorts Villas & Serviced Apartments Hotel Groups New Openings
Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

What is hotel AI visibility?
Hotel AI visibility measures how often and how prominently your property is named by AI assistants — such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok — when travellers ask where to stay. Unlike Google rankings, AI visibility cannot be seen in your booking analytics. It is a separate search surface that increasingly shapes the decision before a traveller visits any booking site.
How do hotels appear in ChatGPT?
ChatGPT draws from Bing's index and the OAI-SearchBot crawler in web-connected mode. Hotels appear when their website is indexable by Bing, has consistent business information across the web, and uses structured content — particularly FAQPage schema and answer-formatted copy. Named expert quotes and cited statistics further increase citation likelihood, as shown in a 2024 Princeton/KDD study.
What is GEO for hotels?
GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) is the discipline of structuring a hotel's online presence so that AI assistants name and cite the property in their generated answers. It involves answer-formatted content, FAQPage schema, consistent NAP across the web, destination authority, and accessible bot crawling. GEO is distinct from SEO, though a strong technical SEO foundation is its prerequisite.
What is AEO for hotels?
AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) targets the direct answer shown at the top of a results page — the AI overview, featured snippet, or voice answer. For hotels, AEO content answers common traveller questions in self-contained 60–90 word blocks, paired with FAQPage JSON-LD schema to signal answer eligibility to both Google and AI assistants.
How does AI choose which hotels to recommend?
AI assistants draw on website indexability, content quality and answer-formatting, review volume and sentiment, structured data (LodgingBusiness, FAQPage, Speakable schema), consistency of business information across directories, and destination authority. Properties with stronger signals across all these dimensions are cited more often and placed higher in AI-generated recommendations.
Can AI visibility increase direct bookings?
AI visibility can reduce OTA dependency by placing your property in front of travellers before they reach a booking platform. When ChatGPT or Perplexity names your hotel and links your website, a share of those travellers arrive as direct traffic — bypassing the OTA commission. The impact grows as AI search share increases among leisure and business travellers.
How often should I check my hotel AI visibility?
Monthly at minimum. Weekly is recommended for properties in active markets or those running SEO or GEO improvement campaigns. AI models update retrieval behaviour regularly, and competitive position can shift as competitors improve their content. RevPARGenius Hotel AI Visibility runs checks 3× per week automatically.
Does SEO affect AI recommendations?
Yes — SEO is the technical foundation that AI citation depends on. If your website is not indexable by Google and Bing, no AI assistant that draws from those indices can cite you. Correct canonical tags, clean semantic HTML, and the absence of noindex headers all gate AI eligibility. SEO is the floor; GEO and AEO build on top of it.
What schema markup should hotels use?
Hotels should implement LodgingBusiness (or Hotel type), Organization, FAQPage, Speakable, and where applicable BreadcrumbList and Review schema. FAQPage and Speakable are specifically used by AI extraction features. Schema does not replace content quality but increases the accuracy with which AI engines extract and cite your property details.
How can hotels improve AI visibility?
The most effective tactics — from a 2024 Princeton/KDD study of 10,000 AI queries — are answer-formatted content (60–90 word capsules after each heading), named expert quotes, cited and dated statistics, and inline source links, which lifted AI citation rates by 28–41%. Additionally: ensure consistent NAP across all platforms, implement LodgingBusiness and FAQPage schema, and verify AI bot access (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot) is not blocked.

Why we're different from other hotel marketing tools

RevPARGenius Hotel AI Visibility is built specifically for the hospitality industry — not a generic SEO tracker re-skinned for hotels. Unlike tools such as Peec AI or the recently-acquired Hotelrank.ai (now part of Lighthouse), we track the traveler questions guests actually ask by market and guest segment — not corporate keyword sets — and we give you actions tied directly to your specific prompt gaps, not generic SEO advice. We track all four major AI engines live (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok) and our methodology is fully documented. See our 9-tool comparison for a full breakdown of how the options stack up for independent hotels.

Find out now

Find Out If AI Recommends Your Hotel — Or Your Competitor

Check your hotel's AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok. See exactly what each assistant says, which competitors are winning your queries, and what to fix first.

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