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SEO, AEO and GEO for Travel Companies

Travellers ask AI engines to plan a trip and name the operator to book it with, then check Google before they pay. If your trips are missing from that answer, the booking goes to a competitor or through an OTA that keeps a commission. Our travel SEO, AEO and GEO work builds the itinerary pages, sources and listings engines quote. We count direct bookings and enquiries against a baseline.

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Why travellers choose an operator before they ever contact you

A parent planning a family trip to Japan no longer opens ten browser tabs. They ask an AI engine for a 10-day itinerary and which operator should run it, and get a day-by-day plan with two or three names in it. Then they search Google for the best time to go and whether it is safe, and read the AI summary above the results. By the time they reach a booking page, the shortlist is set, built from Tripadvisor, guidebooks and Reddit threads, not your brochure.

The OTAs and big publishers own every destination search

Search your own destination and the first page is Viator, GetYourGuide, Lonely Planet and a few listicles. Your site ranks for your brand name and little else. Every traveller who finds you through a marketplace pays on someone else's checkout, and the commission comes out of your margin on every booking.

Our trip pages read like a brochure

Sunrise over the temples, unforgettable memories, small groups. None of it answers what a traveller asks: how many days, which months, how hard the walking is, what is included and what it costs. Engines quote the operator that states those facts plainly, so a brochure page gets read and passed over.

AI itineraries name our competitors, or nobody at all

Ask for a week in Patagonia and the answer lists two rival operators and a self-drive route. When no operator is named, the traveller books flights and lodges alone and never needs you. Either way the trip gets planned without you, and you never see the enquiry you lost.

What we build for travel SEO and AI itineraries

Travel bookings are won on facts: dates, prices, logistics and trust. We run six workstreams from one roadmap, in the order your baseline says matters most, and each one is built around the questions travellers ask before they commit money and holiday time to a trip.

01

Prompt research built on how travellers plan trips

We map the prompts and searches behind your trips, such as "10-day Japan itinerary for a family", "best time to see the northern lights" and "is [operator] reputable", by market and by language, then record which operators and sources each engine names today.

02

Itinerary and destination pages engines can quote

Itinerary pages with real day-by-day logistics, best-time-to-go and is-it-worth-it pages, guided versus self-drive comparisons, and trip pages with structured data for price, duration and departures. Each one opens with a direct answer and carries the facts an engine needs to name you.

03

A place in the guides and lists engines cite

We trace the sources behind each answer, such as Tripadvisor, Lonely Planet, national tourism boards and the travel press, then earn your place in them. Engines also read Reddit travel threads, but we focus on the publications, directories and review sites. Listing fees are yours to approve.

04

One consistent account of who runs your trips

Your company name, licences, destinations, trip styles and guides described the same way on your site, in schema and on your Tripadvisor, Viator, GetYourGuide and Google Business Profile listings, so engines stop confusing you with a similar name. Expert author pages show who designs each trip.

05

Trip pages Google and AI crawlers can read

Travel sites often hide prices and departure dates inside booking widgets, publish a duplicate page for every departure, or serve translations without hreflang. We fix rendering, indexation and language targeting, and confirm GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and OAI-SearchBot can reach every trip page.

06

Bookings counted, not just visits

Each month we rerun your prompt set on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot, read rankings in Google and Bing, and count direct bookings, enquiries and trip email signups in your analytics, next to the commission they saved.

Covered on every engine your buyers use

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Google AI Mode
  • Copilot

ChatGPT search and Copilot draw on Bing's index, so Bing rankings feed AI answers. We work on search and AI engines as one program.

How it works

The same four steps on every engagement, with a clear view of what to expect at 30, 60 and 90 days.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Map your business, buyers, competitors and the prompts and searches that decide your category.

    Days 1 to 30. A fixed baseline across every engine and the prompts that matter.

  2. 02

    Prioritize

    Pick the few moves that will get you recommended fastest and turn them into a focused roadmap.

    Days 1 to 30. A focused roadmap agreed, with the first fixes already shipping.

  3. 03

    Execute

    Do the technical, content, authority and AI visibility work ourselves.

    Days 30 to 60. Content, technical and authority work shipping every week.

  4. 04

    Improve

    Track AI citations, rankings and the leads they drive against the baseline and keep refining.

    Days 60 to 90. A first read against the baseline, then the next quarter planned.

Case studies

The method we used to get a fragrance retailer named across every engine, not just one, is what carries over to an operator whose trips engines can't yet tell apart from the marketplace listings.

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Who this is for, and who it is not for

A good fit

Travel companies with a live website, trips people already book and a way to count the bookings and enquiries that search brings in

  • Tour operators and experience providers
  • Cruise lines and rail operators
  • Travel agencies, advisors and travel tech platforms
  • Destination marketing organisations

Not a fit yet

  • Operators who sell only through OTAs and have no direct booking path
  • Brands looking for social media or influencer campaigns
  • Businesses with no live website or nothing to sell yet
  • Anyone expecting guaranteed placement in a specific answer

How we compare with the other ways operators buy bookings

SearchAxe OTA listings and commission Travel marketing agency In-house blog team
Understands how your buyers research Traveller prompts mapped by market and language Owns the traveller, not you Keyword lists, mostly Writes for inspiration, not decisions
Works on AI answers and search together One roadmap for both No, marketplace ranking only Search first, AI as an add-on Rarely
Ships the fixes Pages, technical fixes and mentions Not applicable Often strategy and reports Posts yes, technical fixes rarely
Earns third-party mentions Guides, tourism boards and travel press Their brand, not yours Sometimes, as link building Not in scope
Compliance-aware copy Accurate prices, licences and safety facts Their listing rules apply Varies by agency Depends on the writer
Measured against a baseline Bookings and citations, every month Bookings, minus commission Traffic and rankings, usually Pageviews, usually
Published pricing Yes, from $499 per month Commission on every booking Rarely, a quote after a call Salaries and freelance fees

What you get each month

  • Baseline report Where you stand on every engine and in search before any work starts.
  • Monthly AI citation and ranking report Citations by engine, rankings and referring domains, read against the baseline.
  • Bookings attributed The bookings, trip enquiries and direct revenue that search and AI answers drove that month, in your own analytics.
  • Slack access A shared channel with the people doing the work.
  • Rolling roadmap What shipped, what is next and why, updated every month.
  • Competitor movement Which competitors gained or lost ground in AI answers and search, and why.

How we get started

From first call to work in progress in three steps.

  1. 01

    Book a free consultation

    A call about your business, your market and where you stand in AI answers and search today.

  2. 02

    Get a plan and a quote

    We send a plan for what we would do first, with a quote for the plan you choose.

  3. 03

    Work starts right away

    Once the plan and quote are approved, the work starts immediately.

What clients say

We had thousands of pages going nowhere. Amit cleaned that up and rebuilt our landing pages. Our top three rankings are up 362% and our citations across AI engines have grown more than a hundred times.

Nan Ha Nan Ha Product Growth Lead, Viggle AI Read the Viggle AI case study

We came to Amit with a good product and almost no search presence. He gave our team a plan we could actually follow. Referring domains are up 183% and our first page rankings have more than tripled.

George Kurdin George Kurdin Co-Founder, Monk Read the Monk case study

Our content was getting published but not landing anywhere. Amit reworked how we format it for AI engines and our citations across all seven engines are up over 400%. The Reddit community he built now brings us leads weekly.

Aditya Nagpal Aditya Nagpal Founder, Wisemonk Read the Wisemonk case study

We launched with a homepage and nothing else. Amit built the search foundation, the landing pages, the blog, the schema. Our domain rating is up 70% and we went from zero AI citations to being quoted by six of the seven AI engines.

Ahad Shams Ahad Shams Founder, HeyOz Read the HeyOz case study

We had multiple pages fighting each other for the same terms. Amit mapped it all out, consolidated what needed consolidating, and rebuilt our service pages. Organic traffic is up 147% and our top three rankings have more than doubled.

Manjunath Thandu Manjunath Thandu CEO, Zivoke Read the Zivoke case study

Who's behind SearchAxe

Amit Malvi spent four and a half years at Invideo AI, rising from SEO Executive to Senior SEO Manager. He built and led a 20-person link building team and owned the company's GEO and AEO programs. Today he works hands-on with a small number of businesses across 16 industries, from SaaS and AI startups to law firms, clinics, online stores and manufacturers, that want to be the name search and AI engines recommend.

Pricing

Published prices, in US dollars per month. The plan that fits this work is below.

Full Service SEO and AI Visibility

$1,499 per month

Minimum three months

For businesses that want one partner to own search and AI visibility end to end, from the fixes to the monthly report.

  • Everything in SEO Consulting
  • Technical fixes, on-page work and citation-ready pages
  • Link building, brand mentions and entity optimization
  • Monthly reporting on citations, rankings and the leads they drive

Third-party fees, such as editorial or placement fees and paid listings, are paid by you directly.

Questions buyers ask us

Can we win direct bookings back from the OTAs?

Some of them, yes. The OTAs will keep winning broad searches like things to do in Kyoto. What they can't own is the detailed question: who runs a specific trip, the best month for it, what a day on it involves. We build those pages, earn your place in the guides engines cite, and track direct bookings next to the commission you would have paid. For most operators the realistic aim is to make the OTAs one channel, not the main one.

How do operators get named in AI itineraries?

An engine building an itinerary draws on pages that state logistics plainly and on sources it trusts, such as Tripadvisor, Lonely Planet, tourism boards and the travel press. It names operators that appear in those sources and whose own pages confirm the details. So we work both sides: itinerary pages with day-by-day facts, and mentions in the sources behind the answer. Engines also read Reddit threads and YouTube reviews, but we focus on the publications, directories and review sites.

How do you handle seasonality in the reports?

Travel demand swings by month, so a plain month-on-month chart misleads. We read each month against the baseline and against the same month last year in your own analytics. We also track the prompts for each season before it starts, because travellers ask about summer trips long before summer. The report separates booking dates from travel dates, so a quiet month on the calendar isn't mistaken for lost ground.

Can you work on a site in several languages?

Yes. Travellers in each market ask different questions in their own language, and engines answer them from different sources. We build a prompt set per market, fix hreflang and duplicate translations, and make sure each version carries its own facts rather than a loose machine copy. For operators with hundreds of departures or destinations, our Programmatic SEO Agency work builds those pages from real data, with a quality check on every one.

How do you attribute bookings to search and AI answers?

In your own analytics and booking system. We separate AI referral traffic, connect it to booking and enquiry events, and count email signups for high-consideration trips, since many travellers subscribe well before they book. Not every AI-influenced booking carries a referrer, so we also suggest a how-did-you-hear question on the enquiry form and read both. You see direct revenue next to the commission those bookings would have cost through an OTA.

How long before we see results?

We set the baseline in the first 30 days, covering your prompts, rankings and current bookings by channel. You get the first full read against that baseline at day 90, and a report every month in between. Technical and page fixes tend to register before mentions in guides and the travel press do. We don't guarantee rankings, citations or booking numbers, and you should be wary of anyone who does.

What does it cost?

There are three plans, from $499 to $1,499 per month. Full Service SEO and AI Visibility, at $1,499 per month with a three-month minimum, covers all six workstreams on this page. If you want to see how engines treat your trips first, the $199 AI Visibility Audit is a one-time check. Listing or placement fees on third-party sites are paid by you directly. Every plan is on our pricing page.

Do you need access to our systems?

Read access to your analytics, Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, plus editor access to your CMS so we can ship page fixes. We also need booking and enquiry data, from your reservation system or a regular export, so bookings can be counted. Where prices, availability, licensing or bonding details are involved, every change goes through your own review before it goes live, and safety information stays factual.

Let's get your business recommended.

Tell us what you sell, who buys it and where you show up today. We'll reply within one business day with what is costing you leads and what we would fix first.

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