drishva.ai

AI visibility for hospitality

Travellers have stopped searching. They've started asking.

When someone asks an AI model where to stay, it names three or four hotels. There is no page two. If your property is not in that answer, it was not ranked low — it was not considered. And nothing in your analytics will ever tell you it happened.

The shift

Hotel discovery moved somewhere you cannot see

Three numbers explain why this stopped being a future problem.

~40%of travellers now use AI at some stage of trip planning — over half of US leisure travellers. Three-quarters of them are asking for recommendations, not logistics.
82%of AI citations come from earned media rather than a brand's own website. Your site is where someone lands after deciding to consider you.
62%of travellers say they would rather book direct with a hotel than through an OTA. AI-referred guests who book direct cost no commission.

What this looks like in practice

A real question, and a real answer

This is the shape of every conversation we have. Not a theory about AI — a question a guest would genuinely ask, and what four models actually returned.

Traveller asks Where should I stay in Edinburgh for a business trip — somewhere quiet, with a decent gym and late checkout?

The model answers with four hotels.

  1. A well-known city-centre property
  2. A boutique hotel with strong recent press coverage
  3. A chain property with a complete Google Business Profile
  4. An independent listed on the national tourism board

The fifth, sixth and seventh best-suited hotels in Edinburgh do not appear. There is no fifth position.

The difference is not quality. The four that appeared are cited in enough independent sources that a model can name them with confidence. That is a solvable problem — and it is the one we work on.

The measurement

We call it Share of Model

The percentage of relevant questions in which your property is actually named. Tracked per property, per engine, against a named competitive set, on a fixed query set, every month.

You cannot manage what has never been counted. Most of the hospitality industry currently has no number at all — not a poor one, none. Share of Model is the instrument that was missing.

Read the full methodology →

<20% Where most properties we check begin. Almost none of them knew, because nothing had ever produced the figure.

The framework

CITED

Five components. Every piece of work we do sits under one of them.

Crawlability

Whether AI systems can read your site at all. A surprising number of hotel sites block AI crawlers entirely — usually by accident, through a setting nobody chose deliberately.

Identity

Whether machines can resolve what your property is. Structured data, entity records, and consistency of name and address across every surface that carries them.

Trust

Whether independent sources confirm it. Reviews, tourism boards, guides and collections — the places a model treats as neutral.

Expression

Whether your content can be extracted. "Superbly located" is unusable. "Twelve minutes' walk from Waverley Station" can be quoted.

Distribution

Whether you exist in the places models look. Maps, directories, forums and tourism boards — much of it free, most of it unclaimed.

Applied per property

A forty-property group is forty entities in every system that matters. We work each one — not the group brand.

See the framework in detail →

Why a specialist

Hospitality is the whole firm

Not an agency with a few hotel clients. Every client, every query library, every framework, every hour of delivery is hospitality.

That matters for a specific reason. A hotel group is not one brand — it is forty properties, each a separate entity with its own listings, reviews and local context. Optimising the group brand does very little for the property in Manchester that is not appearing.

The work is also unusually shaped. Roughly half of it is per-property volume: listings, citations, entity records, tourism board registrations, review corpora. Multiply that across forty properties and it becomes work most agencies cannot price and quietly deprioritise.

More about how we work →

And the language

Written for commercial teams

A commercial director does not want to hear about visibility. They want to know what this does to channel mix, and what it costs to acquire a direct booking against an OTA one.

Our reporting is one number, one page, monthly — built so it can be taken into a board meeting without translation.

What we never touch

Rates, availability, parity, commission structures or channel strategy. That is your revenue team's territory and it stays there. We publish our boundaries because nobody else in this category does.

Evidence

Case study

Five questions. Four engines. What came back.

We will run five questions a guest would realistically ask about your market, across four AI models, and send you exactly what came back — with screenshots. No cost, no obligation, no meeting required.