Turn AI searches into direct bookings.
When ChatGPT and Gemini recommend a place to stay, make sure it’s yours.
See how you perform across AI platforms, improve your visibility and guide travelers to book directly on your website.
Built for hotels, resorts, hospitality groups and professionally managed stays.
“Where should I stay in Charleston? I’m looking for a boutique hotel near the Historic District, with a rooftop and under $350 a night.”
The Alder House
A boutique Charleston hotel near the Historic District with a rooftop terrace, locally inspired rooms and rates from $289. A strong choice for couples and weekend stays.
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ChatGPT The Alder House · Charleston, South Carolina · Sample hotel Outcomes
Take control of where travelers search and book.
When AI recommends your place, give travelers a clear path to your website and booking engine instead of an online travel agency.
01
Get discovered
Appear when travelers ask AI for places to stay that match their destination, budget and trip, not only when they search for you by name.
02
Get recommended
Help AI understand what makes your hotel or stay relevant and why it should be recommended over the alternatives.
03
Drive direct bookings
Connect AI recommendations to accurate availability and your direct booking engine.
Travel search has changed
Travelers are asking AI where to stay and which places to book.
Instead of comparing endless websites and listings, travelers describe the trip they want and receive a tailored set of recommendations.
If you are missing, inaccurate or overlooked, you can lose the guest before they reach your website or booking engine.
- Before
- Search Compare websites Choose Book
- Now
- Ask AI Get recommendations Choose Book
About 28,600,000 results
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Charleston Boutique Hotels: Compare Rates
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THE 10 BEST Boutique Hotels in Charleston
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Where should I stay in Charleston? Boutique, near the Historic District and under $350?
Three places that fit:
- 1
Cypress Row
Guesthouse two blocks off Broad Street, from $215.
- 2
The Marigold House
Small hotel with a courtyard bar, from $240.
- 3
Harborlight Inn
Rooftop pool near the waterfront, from $320.
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Sample destination and sample hotels
AI now shapes which hotels travelers discover, trust and book.
- 37%
- of Americans planning to travel in summer 2026 are using or planning to use AI to help plan their vacations
- Allianz Partners / Ipsos, 2026
- 75%
- of travelers likely to use AI expect to use it for travel recommendations
- IMG Travel Outlook Survey, 2026
Why Explore
Built for hospitality. Built to act.
Explore goes beyond counting brand mentions. It connects traveler intent, hospitality-specific competitors, trusted information sources and booking paths. Then it shows your team what to improve next.
- Traveler intent
- Hospitality competitors
- Trusted sources
- Direct demand
Platform
See where you appear. Know what to improve.
Explore shows how your hotels and stays perform across leading AI platforms, who gets recommended instead, what shapes the answer and what your team should improve next.
The Alder House · Charleston
Sample dataVisibility · The Alder House
64/100
Recommended more often in Charleston than at any point since you started.
Who AI recommends · Charleston
- 1 Harborlight Inn 81
- 2 The Alder HouseYou 64
- 3 Cypress Row 57
- 4 The Marigold House 49
- 5 Battery & Bay 36
By platform
- ChatGPT #1 78
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Gemini Not ranked 52 -
Perplexity #2 71 -
Grok #3 60
Information sources
- booking.com31%
- tripadvisor.com22%
- alderhousecharleston.com14%
- visitcharleston.com9%
AI Visibility
See when and where ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok recommend your hotels and stays.
Track visibility across AI platforms, traveler searches, topics and markets.
Competitive & Source Intelligence
See which hotels get recommended instead and which sources shape the answer.
Compare competitors, cited sources, missing facts and conflicting information.
Prioritized Actions
Know exactly what to improve next.
Get clear actions across your website, hotel information, external sources and AI readiness.
Performance & Direct Demand
See how performance changes and where AI-driven demand is going.
Track visibility, market rank, citations and AI-referred traffic while strengthening the path to direct booking.
How it works
From missing in AI to recommended. From recommended to direct demand.
- Step 1
Measure
See how your hotels and stays appear across the traveler searches and AI platforms that matter.
- Step 2
Understand
Identify where you are missing, what AI gets wrong and which competitors are being recommended instead.
- Step 3
Improve
Prioritize changes across your website, listings, content and information sources that can strengthen AI visibility.
- Step 4
Drive direct bookings
Track stronger AI visibility, growing AI-referred demand and more travelers moving toward direct booking. Prepare for booking directly inside AI as platforms evolve.
Who it’s for
Built for hospitality teams focused on growth.
For owners, operators, brand leaders, marketing, ecommerce and revenue teams improving how their hotels and stays perform across AI platforms.
Hotel groups & brands
Compare AI visibility across hotels, markets and brands from one portfolio view. Prioritize the greatest opportunities.
Independent hotels & resorts
See where you appear, which local competitors are recommended instead and what can strengthen direct demand.
Professionally managed stays
Help vacation rentals, aparthotels and serviced stays become easier for AI platforms and travelers to discover, understand and book.
What is Explore?
Explore is an AI visibility and booking-readiness platform for hospitality. It shows how hotels, resorts and stays appear across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok, who gets recommended instead and what to improve to drive stronger visibility and more direct bookings.
Which AI platforms does Explore measure?
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok. Explore runs real traveler searches on each one rather than estimating from web rankings, because the platforms answer differently and change often.
What can we improve?
Most of it is clarity and structure rather than design. Rooms, rates, policies and location stated plainly on your own website; consistent facts across OTAs, guides and review sites; and the information sources AI leans on when it describes you. Explore ranks the changes by what is most likely to move your visibility, and can publish an AI-ready hotel profile alongside your site.
Do we need to change our website?
Not to start. Explore works from your existing website and listings, and hands you a prioritized list of what to fix. Nothing here requires a redesign or a replatform.
How is Explore different from SEO, OTAs and metasearch?
SEO works on the ranked list of links. An OTA hosts your listing and takes a commission on the booking. Metasearch compares rates across those channels. AI platforms read all of them, plus your own website, and answer with a handful of names. Explore works on that layer, the one that decides which names come back, and aims the resulting demand at your direct channel.
Is this GEO or AEO?
Both names describe it. Explore is generative engine optimization for hospitality, with measurement first: you cannot improve what you cannot see, so it starts by measuring what the AI platforms actually say, then prioritizes the changes that move it.
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See where AI recommends you.
Enter your website to see how you appear across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok and what you can improve next.
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