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What AI assistants say about Expedia

We asked ChatGPT

“What are the best online travel agencies? Which would you recommend and why?”

Expedia was among the recommendations

Also named:

Booking.comGoogle FlightsKayakSkyscannerHopper

“Short answer - there isn’t one single “best” OTA; different sites excel at different jobs. Below I list the major online travel agencies and metasearch tools, say what each is best for, note important pros/cons, and give a short recommendation about how to use them together. Top OTAs / tools (what they’re best at) - Booking.com - best for widest hotel inventory, flexible cancellation options and lots of guest-review …”

C

50/100 AI-readiness

www.expedia.com (official site, from public records) · can the AI crawlers read the site? Checked by code, not by a model.

AI assistants can read pages when answering (robots.txt):No answer-time fetcher is fully blocked; ChatGPT (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User), Claude (Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot), Perplexity (PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User) are kept out of parts of the site.
AI models may train on the site (robots.txt):No training crawler is blocked, so future model versions can learn about the brand from its own pages.
llms.txt for AI assistants:Present - AI tools get a curated summary of the site.
Homepage reachable:Homepage returned HTTP 429.
One live question to one assistant, asked by PollyX on Oct 15, 2026 and asked again about once a month. Assistants answer differently every time, so this is a sample, not a score. The full check asks 12 buyer questions of nine assistants and records every page each one reads. How AI visibility is measured

Is Expedia the first recommendation, and how is it described?

That was one question to one assistant. The full check asks nine assistants 12 buyer questions each, shows where Expedia is first, listed or absent, who is named instead, which pages the assistants read, and what to publish to change it.

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