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AI search visibility · GEO for travel

Get recommended by AI, not just ranked on Google

Travellers are planning trips by asking ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. We build your travel business into those answers, and track your visibility every month so you can see it working.

AI Visibility — Chat mock
AI Visibility — Answer capsule
What is AI search visibility (GEO)?

AI search visibility, or Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), is the practice of structuring your website and online presence so AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity can understand, trust and recommend your business inside the answers they generate.

Where traditional SEO aims for a position in a list of links, GEO aims for a mention inside the AI's answer itself, at the moment a traveller is choosing where to book.

Search is moving from a list of links to a single answer

For high-consideration trips, more travellers now open an AI assistant before they open Google. If your business isn’t in the answer, you’re not on the shortlist, and you never even knew the conversation happened.

AI Visibility — Why it matters
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AI quotes passages, not pages

Answer engines retrieve and synthesise specific passages of text, then cite the ones they lean on. The unit that gets recommended is a clear, self-contained answer, not a whole website.

Retrieval-augmented generation

~30–40%

Structure lifts citation rates

Research indicates that content with clear statistics, sources and quotable, answer-shaped structure is measurably more likely to be cited by AI engines than vague marketing copy.

Princeton-led GEO study, KDD 2024

Ranking #1 no longer guarantees inclusion

The overlap between the top Google links and the sources AI engines actually cite has fallen sharply. You can rank well and still be absent from the AI answer entirely.

Reported cross-engine analyses, 2025–26

What's actually known about AI visibility, and what isn't

The AI engines are proprietary and change constantly, and the industry is full of confident claims. We’d rather be honest about the evidence, because that’s how you make good decisions. Here’s how we separate it.

AI Visibility — Evidence tiers
Established

What's known

  • Engines retrieve and cite passages, so answer-shaped content wins over long marketing copy.
  • Structured data, clear FAQs and question-style headings make content easier to extract and quote.
  • Different engines cite differently, so no single tactic works everywhere.
  • Some sold "GEO" tricks (like llms.txt files) show no credible evidence of driving citations.
Strong evidence

What's strongly supported

  • Adding statistics, sources and quotations can lift AI visibility by roughly 30–40%.
  • Overly promotional tone appears to reduce how often content gets cited.
  • Consistent third-party mentions (reviews, directories, press) build the trust engines draw on.
  • Clear authorship, credentials and dates (E-E-A-T) correlate with being cited.
Informed hypothesis

What we treat as hypothesis

  • That a coherent, consistent brand entity compounds into durable "recommendability" over time.
  • That strong reviews on trusted travel platforms feed business recommendations specifically.
  • That being cited makes future citation more likely (a reinforcement effect).
  • We test these, measure, and never sell them as certainties.

We build on what's established and strongly supported, treat the rest as experiments to measure, and report honestly on what moved. No magic algorithms, no guarantees we can't keep.

How we build your AI visibility

AI visibility isn’t one switch, it’s five layers working together. We build them into your website and your wider presence, then measure the result.

AI Visibility — Method
01

Entity foundation

A clear, consistent picture of who you are, where you operate and what you offer, with structured data (Organization, tours, FAQs, reviews) so machines can understand your business unambiguously.

02

Answer-shaped content

Destination, tour and experience pages that open with clear, self-contained answers to the real questions travellers ask, structured so an AI can lift and cite them without rewriting.

03

Fact-led, non-promotional copy

Specifics that engines favour, seasons, prices, inclusions, distances, over vague superlatives, so your content reads as a credible source rather than an advert.

04

Third-party presence & citations

Reviews, directory and association listings, and digital PR, the outside signals AI engines lean on to decide who to trust and recommend in your category.

05

Freshness & technical access

Dated, maintained content and clean technical setup (including the indexes AI web search relies on) so engines can crawl, trust and re-surface your pages.

06

Monthly measurement

We track the real questions your travellers ask across every major engine and report where you appear, so this is accountable and visible, not a leap of faith.

Each AI engine recommends differently

There’s no single “AI algorithm.” The engines draw on different sources and reward different things, so we build for each rather than treating them as one. Behaviour shifts over time, so we keep testing.

AI Visibility — Engines
G

ChatGPT

Leans heavily on third-party consensus, directories, reviews and press, and its web search draws on Bing's index.

Lever: reviews, listings, press & Bing indexing
C

Claude

Favours clean, well-structured, factual and authoritative sources it can trust and summarise accurately.

Lever: clarity, structure & credibility
G

Gemini

Reported analyses show it disproportionately cites the brand's own domain, so your on-site content matters most.

Lever: strong owned content & schema
P

Perplexity

Favours specialist sources, freshness and community platforms, and shows its citations openly on every answer.

Lever: freshness, specificity & community presence
AI

Google AI Overviews

Rewards front-loaded answers and E-E-A-T, but overlaps less with classic rankings than most businesses assume.

Lever: answer capsules & authorship signals
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One strategy, all of them

We build owned content strong enough for Gemini, structured enough for Claude and AI Overviews, and backed by the third-party signals ChatGPT and Perplexity reward.

Covered: all five, tracked monthly

The AI Visibility Report

Every month we run the real questions your travellers ask through the major engines and log where you appear, next to your competitors. You watch your presence in AI answers grow over time, in plain numbers.

AI Visibility — Report checklist
  • Your target traveller queries, tracked across five engines
  • Cited / not cited status, with month-on-month trend
  • Competitor comparison, so you know where you stand
  • The next actions we're taking to move the numbers
AI Visibility — Report mock
AI Visibility ReportExample
"Best safari operators in the Serengeti"ChatGPTCited
"Luxury tented camps Tanzania"PerplexityNew ↑
"Tailor-made East Africa safari"GeminiCited
"Family safari holiday operators"ClaudeCited
"Serengeti migration safari 2027"AI OverviewsNot yet

Ways to work with us on AI visibility

Start with an audit to see where you stand, build the foundation once, then keep it growing. Prices are starting points, quoted in your currency after a short call.

AI Visibility — Packages

AI Visibility Audit

Best first step for any travel business

from $500 / £400
One-off · credited to a project
  • Live test across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity & AI Overviews
  • Where you and your competitors appear today
  • Technical, content & entity gap analysis
  • Prioritised roadmap + short walkthrough
Start with an audit
Most popular

GEO Foundation

Build AI visibility into your site, once

from $2,500 / £2,000
One-off project · add-on or standalone
  • Entity & structured-data foundation
  • Answer-shaped content on your key pages
  • FAQ & comparison content AI can quote
  • Technical access & freshness setup
  • Baseline visibility measurement
Book a strategy call

AI Visibility & Growth

Keep compounding, month on month

from $800 / mo
Retainer · SEO + GEO + content
  • Ongoing GEO, SEO & content work
  • Digital PR & citation building
  • Monthly AI Visibility Report
  • Competitor tracking & quarterly strategy
Talk about a retainer

AI search visibility, answered

AI search visibility, also called Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), is the practice of structuring your website and online presence so AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity can understand, trust and recommend your business inside the answers they generate. Unlike traditional SEO, which aims for a position in a list of links, GEO aims for a mention inside the AI's answer itself.

SEO optimises a page to rank in a search results list. GEO optimises content and brand presence so AI engines quote and recommend you inside a generated answer. They share foundations like quality content, structured data and authority, but GEO places far more weight on extractable, answer-shaped passages, factual sourcing and third-party consensus.

No one can honestly guarantee a specific AI recommendation, because the engines are proprietary and change often. What we can do is apply the practices that current evidence shows improve the likelihood of being cited, and track your visibility across engines every month so you can see real movement rather than take it on faith.

We run a set of the real questions your travellers ask through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews every month, and log where you're mentioned or recommended, alongside your competitors. You get a monthly AI Visibility Report showing exactly how your presence in AI answers is changing over time.

It varies. Some structural changes can be reflected within weeks as engines re-crawl and re-index, while entity and authority signals compound over months. We set a baseline at the start so improvement is measured against real numbers, not a vague sense that things are better.

Often we can build AI visibility into your existing site as a GEO Foundation project. If the site is slow, poorly structured or hard to crawl, a redesign will get you further, and we'll tell you honestly which one makes sense after the audit.

AI Visibility — Final CTA
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See if AI recommends your travel business

Get a free AI visibility check. We'll ask the engines the questions your travellers ask, and show you exactly where you appear, where your competitors appear, and what it would take to get you into the answer.