Picture this: your hotel sits on page one of Google for “boutique hotel [your city].” Your reviews are strong, your site loads fast, your SEO team reports green across the board. Then a guest opens ChatGPT and asks the same…
If you manage an independent or boutique hotel, you’ve probably already noticed guests mentioning ChatGPT or Gemini when they explain how they found you — or, more often, how they almost didn’t. Independent hotel AI search visibility is quickly becoming…
Here’s an easy way to lose a booking without ever knowing it happened: a traveler asks ChatGPT to recommend a beachfront rental in your area, gets three names back, and yours isn’t one of them. No error message. No missed…
Ask ChatGPT which vacation rental has the best ocean view in your market, and it won’t read your whole website before answering. It will pull a sentence or two from wherever the clearest answer sits — and for most property…
A traveler asks ChatGPT to recommend a boutique hotel for a weekend away. The assistant names three properties. If yours isn’t one of them, that guest never sees you — there’s no page two to scroll past, no “here are…
Ask ChatGPT to find “a family-friendly rental near the beach with a pool,” and it won’t hand you a page of ten blue links to scroll through. It’ll name three properties. Maybe four. That’s it — no page two, no…
If you manage vacation rentals or run a boutique hotel, you’ve probably heard SEO, AEO, and GEO thrown around like they’re interchangeable. They’re not. And if you’re only optimizing for one of them in 2026, you’re leaving guests — and…
Ask ChatGPT “what’s a good vacation rental management tool” or “find me a pet-friendly cabin near Asheville,” and you’ll get a direct answer — not ten blue links to scroll through. That single shift is rewriting how guests find properties…