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AI SEARCH OPTIMISATION FOR LUXURY HOTELS

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Be the Hotel AI Recommends, and Take the Booking Direct

More than SEO. A full package for your AI search visibility, end to end: the questions guests ask, the answers the engines give, the sources they trust and the direct bookings that follow.

Free, within two working days, no call needed. Budget season: the Snapshot gives you the evidence for a 2027 AI search line.

★★★★★Trusted by world-renowned five-star hotels, including The Langham, London and Raffles London at The OWO

AT A GLANCE

sAIph Search runs AI search optimisation programmes for luxury hotels: on your site, across the sources AI trusts, benchmarked against your competitors every month.

At The Langham, London, ChatGPT answers naming the hotel rose from 40% to 70% in 90 days. We measure what ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot say about you, then change it: pages written to guest questions, technical access, and the guides, listings, reviews, Reddit threads and Wikipedia entries AI relies on.

5live AI engines, re-tested every month
40% → 70%ChatGPT answers naming The Langham, in 90 days
+228%Conversions at The Langham, with £1.83 back per £1 over the first three months

Trusted by world-renowned five-star hotels including The Langham, London and Raffles London at The OWO.

01 · THE PROGRAMME

AI search optimisation and SEO

The monthly programme. Pages, facts, sources, reviews, and PR, worked every month and re-tested so you can see share move from your competitors to you. From 10 to 80 hours a month, from £1,350.

  • Pages written to the questions guests ask, ready to publish or published by us
  • Technical access, rendering, and speed kept clean for every AI crawler
  • Off-site: guides, listings, reviews, Wikipedia, and press, corrected and earned
  • Competitor benchmark re-run monthly, share of voice reported by engine
  • AI assistants tracked as a channel in GA4, bookings traced back

02 · THE AUDIT

The AI Search Audit

Where every programme starts. More than 100 guest questions across five engines, your site read like a crawler, every source mapped, and a phased plan naming who owns each fix. £4,600, included with qualifying programmes.

  • 100+ questions, five engines, every answer read by a person
  • You against seven or eight competitors, question by question
  • Executive summary, action plan, and fact sheet for your team
  • Re-tests at day 30 and day 90

03 · RELAUNCH AND MIGRATION

Website relaunch: AI search and SEO

The riskiest moment for search is the best moment to become readable by AI. We map every old address, protect what ranks, and build each page so ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can read and quote it. Abby Connect: +20% traffic and sales after relaunch.

  • Redirect map for every old address, no chains, no blanket redirects
  • Content and metadata parity, checked before launch
  • AI crawler access and rendering tested on staging
  • AI visibility measured before and after launch

FOR HOTEL GROUPS AND COLLECTIONS

Brand and property, worked together.

Brand-level and property-level question sets, group reporting, and one request list for the brand team.

WHAT YOU ARE BUYING

More direct bookings, won from the guests who ask AI where to stay.

Every programme is built to move bookings from the OTAs to your own website. That is the focus, and every piece of work below exists to serve it.

01

Win the question

We test the questions your guests actually ask and make your hotel the answer the engine gives first, so the guest arrives already decided.

02

Take share from competitors

Every question is benchmarked against the hotels you compete with. Where a rival is named instead of you, we find out why and take that answer back.

03

Fix the sources AI trusts

Most of what AI says about you comes from booking sites, review platforms, guides, and press. We correct, place and earn coverage there, so the engine quotes you, not an OTA.

04

Send the booking direct

Answers point to your own pages, with the facts and the booking route on them, so the guest books with you and the commission stays in the property.

Free. Within two working days. No call needed.

THE WORKSTREAMS

On your site, off it, and measured against your competitors.

On your site we publish the facts AI needs. Off your site we work the booking sites, review platforms, guides, Wikipedia and press the engines quote. Every question is benchmarked against the hotels you compete with, so we know where the attention is going and how to bring it to you. Your audit decides which workstreams get your hours.

Select a workstream

01 · Measure

Know exactly where you stand, every month

Not just the questions. We measure everything that decides whether AI names you, then re-run it monthly so every change is visible.

FROM OUR WORK In one recent audit, the tracker mislabelled more than 100 answers as naming the hotel. Reading them is the job.
Your guest questions tested live in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot, read by a person
Share of voice against the competitors guests compare you with, question by question
Technical: crawler access, rendering, response times, and what text survives extraction
Off-site: every source the engines cite for you and for each competitor
Accuracy and sentiment: what AI says about you, and whether it is true
Bookings and enquiries traced back to AI assistants in GA4

THE DIRECT BOOKING

The guest asks AI. AI reads the OTAs. We make it send the guests to you instead.

Three of the tactics we employ, among many more our research team finds for each hotel.

  1. Put the direct reason on the page, as a factBreakfast included, late checkout, the best rate: stated plainly in the first lines, so AI can quote it when it answers "where should I book?".
  2. Make your official link the one AI citesFacts, prices and capacities on your pages, crawlers unblocked, and the sources AI trusts pointing at you, not at an OTA listing of you.
  3. Take the booking that AI already decidedThe sources AI trusts point to you. Guides, directories, press, and review profiles are corrected and earned so the engines cite them, and they link to your site, not the OTAs.

YOUR NUMBERS

Booking-site commission18%

Programme

WHAT IT TAKES TO PAY BACK

1.4

direct stays a month cover the Signature fee of £2,700 a month.

£338commission kept on one direct stay worth £1,875
8stays a month if you count only the commission saved

Revenue break-even, not profit, on your own numbers.

See full pricing →

A direct booking is also worth more: hotel websites earned $519 per booking against $320 on OTAs, and direct stays cancel half as often (SiteMinder, Jan 2025; Cloudbeds, Mar 2026).

WIN THE BOOKING, NOT JUST THE MENTION

Being named is half of it. The booking has to come to you.

When AI recommends your hotel, four things decide whether the guest books direct or through an OTA. We work on all four.

Price

Rate checks against the OTAs, and "from" prices AI can read, so the quoted rate is yours.

A reason to book direct

Your member benefits and direct-only inclusions stated as plain facts AI can repeat.

The official link

Every listing and knowledge source pointing to your own website, and your rate in Google Hotel Center.

The sources AI trusts

The guides, ratings and reviews that shortlist you, linked to your site, not an OTA.

WHY IT WORKS

Answers read by a person, work shipped every month, results you can check.

Tools count mentions. We read every answer across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot, write the pages and placements that change them, and re-test on the same questions so you can see what moved.

CASE STUDY · THE LANGHAM, LONDON

★★★★★
40% → 70%ChatGPT answers naming the hotel, in 90 days
+228%Organic conversions (booking steps), on flat traffic
83.1%ROI over the first three months (£1.83 back per £1 of fees)

"Our brand is entering far more AI conversations than it was a month ago."

Joe Bamsey, then Director of E-Commerce, The Langham, London · Verified on Clutch ↗

THE sAIph METHOD

How we work, in three stages

Measure, fix, compound. Every month.

Select a stage

Know exactly where you stand

  • Ten questions free, 100+ in the audit, your agreed set every month
  • Technical, content, off-site, and competitor measures, not just visibility
  • A baseline you can hold us to

Your guest questions run live in five AI engines and read by a person. Your site read like a crawler, every source the engines cite mapped, and your competitors benchmarked question by question.

WHAT CHANGES FOR YOUR HOTEL

Four things you will see move.

Every programme is built from your audit, so the mix differs. These are the results it is built to produce.

You appear in the answers you were missing from

Questions that named competitors instead start to name you, beginning with the ones closest to flipping.

AI describes you accurately

Prices, venues, awards, and services quoted correctly, because they are on your pages and in the sources AI trusts.

Competitors lose share to you

Question by question, the benchmark shows share of voice moving from the hotels guests compared you with.

Bookings arrive direct

AI assistants show up as a channel in your analytics, and the guests they send book on your site, not through an OTA.

Free. Within two working days. No call needed.

Max Carmichael-Jack, Founder of sAIph Search

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Advice, a second opinion or a quick question. We reply within one working day.

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WORKING WITH YOUR AGENCIES AND TEAMS

We slot in beside the people you already have.

Your SEO agency keeps you ranking. Your PR agency keeps you in the press. Your web team owns the site. We own the one thing none of them do: how AI engines read, describe and recommend you, and we hand each of them the fixes that sit in their lane.

YOUR SEO AGENCY

One owner for every fix

Every action is labelled your team, your brand, your agency or us. Nothing lands on two desks and nothing falls between them.

YOUR PR AGENCY

Briefs they can run with

We tell them which publications the engines quote for your category and what the piece needs to say to be cited. They pitch it; we measure the lift.

YOUR BRAND AND WEB TEAM

Documented, approved, in your templates

Pages are written ready to publish in your voice and CMS. The brand gets one ordered request list for anything that needs head office.

The key takeaway: your agencies keep you ranking and in the press. We make sure the guest's AI answer names you, and books with you.

SEO, GEO AND AEO

What is the difference between SEO, GEO, AEO, and AIO?

SEO earns rankings in Google's results. Generative engine optimisation (GEO) earns mentions and recommendations inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. Answer engine optimisation (AEO), also called AI optimisation (AIO), is a narrower term for winning direct answers, including Google's AI Overviews. Our AI search optimisation sits on top of SEO, never instead of it.

HOTEL SEO

What do you still need from SEO in the AI era?

  • Technical health. Crawlability, indexing, Core Web Vitals and clean redirects, checked monthly.
  • On-page. Titles, headings and copy matched to what guests search for each room, restaurant, spa and event space.
  • Local search. Google Business Profile, Bing Places and map listings complete and consistent.
  • Content. Answers to real guest questions, refreshed at least every 60 days.
  • Authority. Links and mentions from the travel, food and events publications that rank and get cited.

CITED VS RECOMMENDED

Why do some hotels get cited but never recommended?

Being used as a source and being named as the answer are different things. AI cites many brands it never recommends. We work on both.

Cited

Your page is used as a source for a fact. It comes from clear, factual pages AI can read: the on-site work.

Recommended

You are named as the answer to "where should I stay?". It comes from what the wider web consistently says about you: the off-site work.

Both

The hotels that win direct bookings from AI are cited for their facts and recommended for the occasion. The programme is built to earn both.

Source: GPO, State of AI Search, Sep 2026.

HOW WE COMPARE

How does sAIph compare?

Visibility softwareHotel SEO agencysAIph Search
Built for luxury hospitalitySometimesOftenYes
Measures live AI answersYesRarelyYes
Writes and ships the contentNoSometimesYes, every month
Works on the sources AI citesNoRarelyYes
Labels fixes by who can make themNoRarelyAlways
Published five-star AI search resultsRarelyRarelyYes

Our tools, the sAIph prompt tracker, prompt reverse-engineering and the sAIph audit, are built in-house, so you pay for the work, not software licences.

Relaunching or migrating? AI search for your relaunch →

The key takeaway: Your agencies keep you ranking. We make sure the guest's AI answer names you.

WHAT'S CHANGED IN AI SEARCH

What has changed in AI search this month?

The engines change their sources and rules every few weeks. We track what moved, what we have stopped recommending and why.

Last reviewed 1 October 2026. Updated monthly.

Every change, with sources →
Rising ▲

Gemini briefly dropped citations at a model launch.

For you: every model release can move your visibility overnight, so we re-check your questions straight away.

Source: sAIph knowledge base, Oct 2026 ↗
Falling ▼

ChatGPT cut its Reddit citations by more than half.

For you: Reddit threads are no longer a dependable route into ChatGPT, so effort goes to the sources it still trusts: your own pages, guides, listings, and press.

Source: Promptwatch via Search Engine Journal, Aug 2026 ↗

FREE · TWO WORKING DAYS · NO CALL

Find out who AI recommends instead of you.

Ten guest questions, your competitors side by side and up to five quick wins your own team can make this month.

Two emails: your Snapshot and one check-in a week later. Nothing else unless you reply. We never sell your details. Privacy notice →

Max Carmichael-Jack, Founder of sAIph Search, smiling, in a green corduroy jacket

Rather talk it through?

Questions, advice or a second opinion on what your agency is doing: tell Max about your property, portfolio or project and we reply within one working day.