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Hotels Shift Budgets Upstream to Win AI Search Visibility
marketingSkift··1 min·For: Revenue, Marketing, Owner, GM

Hotels Shift Budgets Upstream to Win AI Search Visibility

With 94% of hotels invisible in AI search results, hospitality leaders are rethinking commercial ownership and moving budgets into upper-funnel content to capture early travel demand. Success requires tighter cross-functional collaboration across revenue, marketing, and analytics teams.

Key Takeaways

  1. 1Research shows 94% of hotels are currently invisible in AI search results
  2. 2Hotels are shifting investment upstream into earned media and third-party storytelling
  3. 3Cross-functional alignment across marketing, revenue, and IT is becoming essential

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Source: Skift

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