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Today, PR teams aren’t just tracking media coverage and share of voice. They’re also measuring how their brand shows up in AI-generated answers, search summaries, and large language models (LLMs). This new LLM visibility layer is quickly becoming a critical part of PR performance.

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As the 2026 spring break season approached in the Northern Hemisphere, new waves of consumers used LLMs to make their travel plans. There are dozens of mainstream online travel agencies (OTAs) and accommodation aggregators to choose from. 

However, LLMs recommended just a small handful in response to prompts about finding the best hotel deals.

Booking.com led with 55% visibility, closely followed by Expedia at 54% visibility, according to our GenAI analysis.

Both popular aggregator sites achieved high visibility across target prompts, though important nuances emerged between consumer asks focused on luxury, solo travel, and safety. Overall, our exploration revealed how consumers experience AI-driven travel discovery — including how LLM platforms elevate certain brands, shape perceived value, and reinforce narratives about credibility within the European hospitality market.

Methodology: The findings below refer to GenAI Lens data evaluating responses from eight LLMs — ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Grok, Llama, and Perplexity — over the three-week period from February 18 to March 11, 2026. 
Our analysis centered on four structured prompts reflecting common travel-planning scenarios in relation to spring 2026 trips in Europe:

What are the best hotel deals in Europe in spring 2026?

What are the best hotel deals for luxury hotels in Europe in spring 2026?

I’m planning a solo trip to Europe in spring 2026. What are the best-value hotel deals right now, ideally in well-located, mid-range or boutique hotels?

I’m a woman traveling solo in Europe in spring 2026. What are the best hotel deals in safe, well-located areas with good reviews?

LLMs Recommended Booking.com and Expedia Most Across Travel Prompts and Models

Both Booking.com (55% visibility) and Expedia (54% visibility) dominated AI-generated OTA recommendations for Europe in spring 2026. Together, they appear in nearly half of all AI responses, consistently achieving high prominence placement across analyzed prompts and models. Tripadvisor came in third place, though at a significant distance from the first two with 32% visibility.  

However, as we’re seeing consistently in these analyses, AI visibility varies widely across models:

Meta’s Llama most frequently recommended Booking.com.

xAI’s Grok tied Booking.com and Expedia for top visibility.

Perplexity, by contrast, surfaced Tripadvisor most often.

Booking.com is the first aggregator website mentioned in this prompt response from Meta Llama analyzed within GenAI Lens. 

Overall, Booking.com slightly outperformed Expedia in LLM visibility thanks to its prevalence across our prompts exploring varying travel scenarios. Models like Google AI Overviews highlighted early booking discounts (15%+), Genius loyalty benefits, and flexible cancellation policies tied to premium properties. For other OTAs and aggregators, emphasizing loyalty building features like these could aid in boosting LLM visibility.

Tripadvisor Gained LLM Visibility in Prompts About Luxury Hotels and Women’s Solo Trips

As seen in the table below highlighting brand, keyword, sentiment, source, and model variations across the personas we analyzed, responses vary meaningfully across prompts. For example, LLMs (and by extension the OTA and aggregator websites they pull from) mentioned Paris, Italy, and Rome most in response to our luxury prompt. Those locations were replaced by Amsterdam and Lisbon for both our solo trip prompts. Meanwhile, when it comes to primary source types, editorial luxury influenced our luxury prompt responses most, while review sites were the top influences of our solo trip prompts. For brands looking to impact the LLM-driven narratives about them, monitoring and optimizing for target associations is key to differentiating.

The most striking of these variations: Tripadvisor was not the most visible OTA overall, but it achieved the second-highest visibility (47%) in both luxury hotel prompts and women’s solo travel prompts. For luxury travelers, LLMs highlighted filter tools, price alerts, and value rankings for spa resorts, positioning it as a decision-support platform. For women traveling solo, best-rated and boutique filters along with peer reviews were the qualities that caught AI attention.

So while Tripadvisor lacked the broad dominance of Expedia and Booking.com, it did achieve prominence in specific travel scenarios. It seems that the site’s combination of search features and UGC helped it cover wider ground among consumers with more specified needs.

As LLMs increasingly steer how travelers discover and evaluate booking platforms, AI visibility is reshaping the competitive landscape for OTAs and other accommodation booking platforms. In short: AI optimization is the new travel marketing battleground. Based on our analysis above, strategies for boosting AI visibility include:

Optimize on owned websites for prominence placement: Booking.com’s dominance correlates with early positioning and specialized webpages that LLMs pulled from. Use structured FAQ pages and schema markup targeting highly specific prompts like “Best hotel deals Europe Spring 2026.”

Emphasize unique UX and capabilities. To avoid being seen as just another price-comparison platform, expand owned content to highlight flexibility (free cancellation, payment options), loyalty benefits, curated collections, and premium or differentiated stay experiences. Based on the most-mentioned locations, there may also be opportunities to target high-intent travelers interested in more off-the-beaten-path destinations.

Track model-specific performance: Booking.com visibility ranges from 30% to 89% by model. AI optimization must be model-aware.

Strengthen review integration: UGC may have helped Tripadvisor stand apart in more specified travel scenarios. Hosting verified user reviews on owned websites helps build trust and brings authentic, personal, AI-visibility boosting content home.

FAQ: Online Travel Agency and Accommodation Booking Platform AI Visibility Performance

Does OTA visibility vary across AI models?

Yes. Meltwater’s GenAI Lens found significant model variance in OTA visibility.

Booking.com ranged from 30% visibility in ChatGPT to 89% in Meta Llama.

Expedia ranged from 20% in ChatGPT to 88% in Grok.

Tripadvisor was strongly amplified in Perplexity (54%) and Grok (86%) but weak in Claude and ChatGPT.

This confirms that OTA exposure in AI results is architecture-dependent and not uniform across platforms.

How does prompt framing affect AI hotel recommendations?

Meltwater’s GenAI Lens analysis shows that prompt intent shifts how AI frames hotel recommendations, even when dominant brands remain consistent.

Editorial luxury sources are frequently cited

Booking.com (69%) and Expedia (60%) reinforce dominance

Review and safety-focused blogs dominate citations

Which European cities received the most AI amplification in prompts about spring 2026 hotel deals?

Meltwater’s GenAI Lens found that destination visibility varies by travel context.

Paris shows the strongest cross-model consistency overall, while Lisbon holds the highest sentiment score (63%). AI appears to associate Paris with luxury, and Amsterdam and Lisbon with safety and functional solo travel.

What does sentiment analysis show about OTA positioning?

Meltwater’s GenAI Lens analysis of spring 2026 European hotel deals found that OTA sentiment is stable but emotionally flat.

Sentiment range: 55–64% across major brands

AI platforms frame OTAs as reliable, transactional utilities rather than emotionally differentiated or premium brands.

Why does Meltwater’s GenAI Lens analysis matter for travel brands?

Meltwater’s GenAI Lens analysis of spring 2026 European hotel deals demonstrates that AI systems have the power to shape early-stage travel discovery before consumers reach traditional search engines or booking sites.

OTA visibility is highly concentrated on LLMs. 

Model differences are significant and consequential. 

Prompt framing reveals brand visibility ranking variances. 

LLMs actively shape consumer associations with travel decisions.

As consumers increasingly use generative AI to plan travel, optimizing for LLM visibility is becoming as critical as SEO and paid media in the European hospitality market.

How Booking.com and Expedia Dominate AI Travel Recommendations

Something fundamental has shifted in how people find information and decide who to trust. When someone turns to an AI tool with a question these days, they don't get a page of links to sift through, they get an answer. And that answer is built from sources the model has already decided are credible, consistent, and worth listening to. If your brand isn't part of that picture, you've lost influence before the conversation even begins.

PR now has a direct hand in shaping what LLMs consider credible expertise. Media coverage, expert commentary, well-structured articles, repeated narratives across channels, all of this feeds the information environment that AI models draw from. When you start treating PR as a long-term investment in authority rather than a quick play for press coverage, you set your brand up to actually be found in an AI-driven world.

This isn't just a new tactic to bolt onto your existing strategy. It's a structural change in how thought leadership works, and it demands a thoughtful, deliberate response.

Understanding Thought Leadership in the Age of AI

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The Symbiotic Relationship Between LLMs and PR

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The Future of Thought Leadership: Human-AI Collaboration

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Being a "thought leader" means you shape how people in your industry understand a topic, so that when someone asks a question about your category, your perspective is already part of how they think about the answer. You're defining trends instead of reacting to them. 

For a long time, that kind of influence came through keynote stages, op-ed columns, white papers, and well-cultivated media relationships. Getting your CEO quoted in the right publications and speaking at the right events was how authority was built. Search engines helped amplify that reach, but human editors and journalists still controlled the gates.

Now, AI systems have joined those gatekeepers. When someone asks a chatbot about the latest in cybersecurity, fintech, climate tech, or healthcare innovation, the model pulls from a wide range of sources, looks for patterns, and favors voices that show up consistently. It recognises the entities it's been trained to trust.

Your authority needs to live inside that ecosystem.

The evolving landscape of information dissemination

Information used to move in a fairly straight line; a journalist wrote a story, an outlet published it, a reader found it, search engines organised all that content, and social media made it spread faster. Simple enough.

Today, it's more layered. AI models ingest enormous volumes of text, map connections between people, companies, concepts, and claims, and then surface synthesised answers rather than individual articles. The unit of influence isn't just a headline anymore, it's a pattern across content, built up over time.

To shape that pattern, you need consistency, depth, and clarity across every channel you operate in. A single well-placed quote won't build authority, but a sustained narrative across media, owned content, and industry commentary will.

You're no longer just competing for attention, you're competing to be included in what AI systems understand about your field.

LLMs can generate content at a pace that has fundamentally changed the supply side of thought leadership. Your competitors can put together polished articles, reports, and social posts in minutes, because the barrier to producing written content has essentially collapsed.

That doesn't mean quality doesn't matter anymore, if anything, it matters more, as AI tools flood the internet with surface-level takes and generic commentary. Models are learning to tell the difference between thin content and genuine expertise by picking up on depth, specificity, and the quality of sources cited.

Instead of vague think-pieces about "the future of AI," you need focused perspectives grounded in real data, concrete examples, and named expertise. Insights that show you've actually thought about a problem will stand out in a sea of generated noise.

Ideation changes too. You can absolutely use LLMs to explore angles, test headlines, and sketch out complex arguments, but the final piece needs your experience, your judgment, and your voice. That's what creates genuine originality, and originality is exactly what builds lasting authority signals.

LLMs can dramatically speed up research, summarising trends, surfacing related concepts, and highlighting recurring themes across an industry. You can get a read on market conversations faster than ever, spot gaps in media coverage, and see which narratives already have owners and which ones are up for grabs.

Speed is a real competitive advantage. When you combine AI-powered research with strong editorial judgment, you can get informed commentary out the door while your competitors are still trying to make sense of a new development.

At the same time, LLMs are changing how your audience does research too, instead of scanning ten articles, they ask one question and get a synthesised answer. If your insights show up repeatedly in the trusted sources that feed that answer, your perspective is far more likely to be part of what comes back.

Research doesn't end at publishing anymore, but extends into how your ideas travel through AI systems long after you hit send.

LLMs make it possible to tailor messaging to specific industries, job titles, and pain points at a scale that wasn't previously realistic. You can take one core insight and adapt it into multiple versions that actually speak to different audiences, without starting from scratch each time.

When used with discipline, this makes thought leadership sharper. You keep a consistent narrative at the centre while adjusting framing and examples to match whoever you're speaking to, a kind of relevance that builds trust quickly.

But it also raises expectations, since audiences are getting used to content that feels like it was written for them, generic messaging now feels noticeably lazy. If you want to lead, you need to demonstrate that you understand the context your reader is operating in and the specific problems they're trying to solve.

LLMs make personalisation easier, but they don't make positioning any less important.

PR teams are now working in an environment where consistent signals across multiple platforms genuinely matter. To show up in AI-driven search, you need bylined articles, interviews, data-driven reports, executive commentary, and owned content, all reinforcing the same themes. That's a lot to produce.

LLMs help by streamlining drafting and repurposing. A research report becomes an op-ed, which becomes a series of social posts, which becomes briefing notes for spokespeople. You maintain coherence across all of it while dramatically expanding your reach.

But scale without strategy just creates noise. PR needs to define a clear authority territory first, then align every piece of content with that focus. A GEO strategy for PR will help with this.

When your messaging clusters tightly around specific topics, AI systems can start to recognise and associate your brand with those themes. The more consistent you are, the stronger those signals become.

Because LLMs are fundamentally about pattern recognition, they're also useful tools for refining your messaging. You can analyse how your brand is described across media, compare your positioning against competitors, and test different framings to see which ones land closest to your goals.

That kind of analysis makes PR sharper. Instead of going on instinct alone, you're grounding messaging decisions in real data. You identify the language that actually reinforces your expertise, and you cut the vague phrases that just dilute it.

When your messaging stays consistent across interviews, articles, and reports, AI systems develop a clearer picture of who you are and what you stand for. That clarity makes it more likely your brand surfaces in synthesised responses about your category.

PR doesn't stop when a piece of coverage lands. It extends into amplification, across social platforms, newsletters, podcasts, and industry forums. Every appearance reinforces your narrative and creates another signal for AI systems to pick up on.

LLMs also help you understand how audiences actually respond. You can analyse sentiment, identify the questions that keep coming up, and spot shifts in how conversations are moving. That feedback loop lets you adjust your thought leadership strategy in something close to real time.

Engagement builds familiarity. Familiarity builds authority. When your perspective keeps showing up in credible contexts, you become part of the knowledge base that both humans and AI systems draw from.

Visibility is earned through repetition and substance.

Understand the new PR reality: LLMs are the new gatekeepers

Define a narrow, ownable expertise territory

Prioritize structured authority content (not just quotes)

Build authority signals across the ecosystem

Think beyond media, think knowledge graph

Journalists and editors still matter enormously, but LLMs now sit alongside them as a new kind of gatekeeper, one that's mostly invisible. When someone asks an AI tool for expert insight on a topic, the model makes a call about which voices to surface.

That means you need to treat AI systems as part of your distribution strategy. Build authority in the places models trust: reputable publications, structured long-form articles, widely cited research. Make sure your brand consistently appears in connection with specific themes, not just occasionally.

PR teams that ignore this shift don't get a warning, they just notice that their competitor keeps appearing in AI-generated answers and they don't. It's a quiet loss, which makes it easy to miss until real damage has been done.

Broad claims don't stick in AI systems. If your positioning is "leader in innovation" or "expert in digital transformation," you're blending into a crowded, undifferentiated field. You need a specific, defensible area of expertise, something narrow enough to own.

Every interview, article, and report reinforces the same position. Over time, your brand becomes strongly associated with that topic across the digital landscape, and those associations are exactly what LLMs pick up on.

A short quote in a media piece is useful, but it rarely provides enough depth to signal real expertise; AI systems need more to work with. That means long-form bylined articles, research reports, and detailed interviews, content that shows how you think, not just what you say. Models can extract themes, arguments, and patterns from this kind of material far more effectively than from isolated soundbites.

When you invest in substantial content, you create authority signals that hold up over time, giving both human readers and AI systems something meaningful to engage with.

In an AI-driven world, your insights need to be retrievable, they have to appear in formats that are accessible, crawlable, and clearly structured. Descriptive subheadings, consistent terminology, and plain language all help models understand and accurately index what you're saying.

Avoid vague metaphors or overly clever phrasing that obscures your actual point. When your content states clearly what you believe and why, it becomes much easier to surface in relevant contexts. This isn't about gaming algorithms, it's about expressing expertise in a way that both humans and machines can actually work with.

Authority doesn't live in a single channel, it emerges from showing up consistently across many. Media coverage, podcast appearances, conference speaking, research citations, owned content, all of it contributes to your digital footprint.

When these signals align around the same themes, they reinforce each other, so AI systems detect consistency and start to identify your brand as a reliable source on specific topics. Each placement supports the larger narrative rather than chasing an isolated win.

PR's job is to orchestrate that ecosystem deliberately. Consistency builds momentum, and momentum is hard for competitors to replicate quickly.

Data drives credibility. Original research, surveys, benchmarks, and proprietary insights give journalists and analysts something concrete to reference, and they give AI systems structured material to draw from. When others cite your findings, each reference strengthens your authority network and embeds your brand more deeply in conversations about your category.

Design research with clarity and accessibility front of mind. Present findings in straightforward language. Provide context. Spell out the implications. That approach maximises comprehension for both human readers and the models indexing your work.

One-off commentary fades. Recurring narratives endure. When you return to a central theme over time, adding to it, developing it, connecting it to new developments, you shape how that theme evolves in public discourse.

An editorial calendar built around a core narrative turns every news cycle into an opportunity to reinforce your perspective. AI systems detect patterns across time, and when your voice consistently appears in relation to a particular topic, you strengthen the association between your brand and that expertise.

AI models don't just process individual articles, they map structured relationships between entities. They connect brands to topics, executives to industries, and concepts to trends. This web of associations forms a knowledge graph that informs the answers models generate.

Your PR strategy should factor in how your brand appears in that graph. Are your executives clearly linked to specific areas of expertise? Does your company show up consistently alongside defined themes and topics?

You can influence those connections through consistent messaging, well-structured bios, and clear descriptions in both media coverage and owned content. When your digital footprint reflects a coherent identity, AI systems can map it accurately, and that accuracy is what gets you included in the answers that matter.

You can't manage what you don't measure. As AI-driven search becomes a bigger part of how people find information, you need to actually assess whether your brand is appearing in AI-generated answers about your category.

Meltwater's GenAI Lens gives PR teams powerful insight into how their brands perform in AI, and which sources LLMs use to gather information.

This takes some experimentation. Ask relevant questions in AI tools, analyse the responses, track changes over time, and compare your visibility against competitors. It won't give you a perfect dashboard overnight, but it will tell you things your traditional media monitoring can't.

When you start treating LLM visibility as a metric alongside media impressions and share of voice, you move PR from a reactive function to a proactive strategy. Visibility stops being something that happens to you and starts being something you deliberately build.

The ease of AI-generated content is a genuine double-edged sword. Yes, you can produce polished material faster than ever. But if you lean too heavily on AI drafts without injecting your own thinking, your thought leadership will start to feel indistinguishable from everyone else's.

The LLM Revolution: Redefining Thought Leadership with PR

Large language models have become part of your marketing workflow. Your team uses them to generate insights, create summaries, and analyze campaign performance. But how does your team verify the accuracy of LLM outputs? How do you prove your AI-driven decisions actually deliver value?

LLM monitoring delivers that proof. It tracks quality, catches errors before they reach stakeholders, and ensures your AI tools support decision-making rather than undermine it. Without monitoring tools, you trust black-box outputs that may contain hallucinations, bias, or outdated data. The risk compounds quickly—one bad insight influences a campaign decision, affects budget allocation, and reshapes your strategy based on flawed information.

This guide explains how marketing teams can implement practical LLM monitoring to improve AI outputs, protect brand trust, and make better decisions backed by reliable data.

LLM Monitoring vs. LLM Tracking: What's the Difference?

What Does LLM Monitoring Mean for Marketing Teams?

What do Teams Risk by Failing to Monitor LLMs?

What are Common Marketing and Insights Use Cases?

How do You Monitor LLMs in Practice? A Step-by-Step Framework

What Tools and Technologies Support Effective LLM Monitoring?

Which Metrics and KPIs Matter Most for LLM Monitoring?

How LLM Monitoring Makes AI More Trustworthy for Marketing Insights

These terms look similar but describe distinct approaches to AI oversight for tools from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers. Understanding the distinction helps you build the right safeguards:

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The Top 5 Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Tools to Transform Your Content Strategy in 2026

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How to Gain AI Visibility and Reputation Across Customer Touchpoints

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Brand Safety in the AI Era: How to Correct Misinformation in Chatbots and AI Search

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