Inspire trips and answer planners’ questions.

Travelers plan trips with search engines and, increasingly, AI assistants. longrtail publishes destination and planning guides that answer those questions and point to your bookings.

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Research

What your buyers are asking

These are the kinds of questions leisure and business travelers put to search engines and AI assistants. For your business, the engine researches the ones that matter most in your markets.

Articles for you

What the engine would write for you

Your real topics come from research on your market, chosen where you can rank and be cited.

Explainer

The best time to visit, month by month

Ranked list

The 10 best things to do in the area with kids

Comparison

Where to stay: downtown vs. waterfront

How to choose

How to plan a 3-day itinerary

Your dashboard

What you would see each month

A dashboard for a business in travel & hospitality. Hover any row for the numbers behind it.

Who AI assistants name

Share of answers that name each business, with a likely range.

TLTravel & Leisure Co.You 47%
ACompetitor A 47%
BCompetitor B 29%
CCompetitor C 16%

What your pages won

Answers that named you, before and after each page went live.

Things to do in Asheville, NC 0 → 18
Cabin or hotel in Asheville: which suits your trip? 2 → 17
Things to do in Asheville: a local's guide 0 → 14
The Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, mile by mile 0 → 12
How it works

How the Content Engine works for Travel & hospitality

  1. 1

    Research first

    The engine learns your buyers, your market and where you stand in Google and AI assistants today. Booking windows open months before travel. The engine publishes seasonal guides ahead of them.

  2. 2

    Written from credible sources

    Facts come from sources your buyers already trust. In your industry, that means sources like:

    • Tourism boards and official destination sites
    • Government travel and entry guidance
    • Transport authorities
  3. 3

    Guardrails that fit your industry

    • Never recommends competing hotels or operators
    • Entry rules and safety information always come from official sources
    • Competitors and anything you rule out are never cited or promoted
    • No invented results or figures
  4. 4

    Approved by you, published under your name

    Each draft arrives with a preview. It goes live only after a marketing or guest-experience lead approves it, under your byline and built for Google and AI search.

FAQ

Travel & hospitality: common questions

Can AI assistants recommend us for trips?

The engine checks what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude cite for trip-planning questions in your area and publishes the guides built to earn those citations.

Will articles link to our bookings?

Yes. Guides link to rooms, tours and packages where they fit naturally.

Does it include images?

Each article gets an original image generated to match it. You can also supply your own photography.

Does anything publish without our approval?

No. Every article arrives as a draft with a preview. A person on your team approves it, asks for changes or rejects it. If no one acts, the draft closes on its own instead of publishing.

How much does longrtail cost?

Visibility is $549 a month and tracks what AI assistants say about you, Claude included. Authority is $1,349 a month for 12 researched and AI optimized content pages, and Dominance is $2,149 a month for a new one every business day. Several sites or brands get a custom quote.

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