Online Travel Agencies
Online travel agencies live or die on comparison: they aggregate flights, hotels, packages, and activities for travelers who cross-check everything. Users range from budget backpackers mixing one-way tickets to luxury bookers, family planners bundling rooms and rental cars, and digital nomads booking month-long stays. This report tracks which OTAs search engines and AI models send those travelers to.
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A summary of what distinguishes high-visibility domains in this industry, based on signal correlation patterns and LLM recommendation data.
The Online Travel Agencies industry covers 1,163 domains in this dataset. The most LLM-recommended vendors include booking.com and expedia.com and airbnb.com.
Within this industry, the strongest predictor of LLM recommendations is SE Outbound Links (ρ=0.357, n=615 (vs. ρ=0.331 across all industries)). Common Crawl follows as second-strongest (ρ=0.356).
booking.com, expedia.com rank highly in LLM recommendations despite a modest backlink footprint, suggesting strong topical authority or brand recognition that exceeds raw web-presence metrics.
14 signals show a strong or dominant correlation within this category: SE Outbound Links (ρ=0.357), Common Crawl (ρ=0.356), Domain PageRank (ρ=0.299), Reddit Comments (ρ=0.298), Search Engine Appearances (ρ=0.295), PageRank History (ρ=0.285), Domain Backlinks (ρ=0.275), Harmonic Centrality History (ρ=0.256), Host Harmonic Centrality (ρ=0.249), Domain Harmonic Centrality (ρ=0.246), Reddit Posts (ρ=0.238), Host PageRank (ρ=0.233), Best Search Engine Rank (ρ=0.232), Host Backlinks (ρ=0.222).
Coverage varies by signal: backlink and SERP data tend to have the broadest reach, while Wikipedia and Reddit signals typically cover only the largest brands. Signals with fewer than 20 observations should be interpreted with caution.
Persona research
This industry has 11 identified audience personas derived from LLM query patterns. Each represents a distinct user intent with its own signal correlations, and its own full report.
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Signal correlations: Online Travel Agencies
Spearman rank correlations (ρ) between each measurable signal and the LLM recommendation score across all 1,163 domains in this industry.
Higher absolute ρ values (closer to ±1.0) indicate stronger relationships. Rank Influence summarizes the practical strength: prioritize Dominant and Strong signals when optimizing.
| Signal | ρ (Spearman) | R² | n | Rank Influence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Outbound Links | +0.357 | 12.8% | 615 | Dominant |
| Common Crawl | +0.356 | 12.7% | 787 | Dominant |
| Domain PageRank | +0.299 | 8.9% | 977 | Strong |
| Reddit Comments | +0.298 | 8.9% | 687 | Strong |
| Search Engine Appearances | +0.295 | 8.7% | 160 | Strong |
| PageRank History | +0.285 | 8.1% | 985 | Strong |
| Domain Backlinks | +0.275 | 7.5% | 868 | Strong |
| Harmonic Centrality History | +0.256 | 6.5% | 985 | Strong |
| Host Harmonic Centrality | +0.249 | 6.2% | 979 | Strong |
| Domain Harmonic Centrality | +0.246 | 6% | 977 | Strong |
| Reddit Posts | +0.238 | 5.7% | 638 | Strong |
| Host PageRank | +0.233 | 5.4% | 979 | Strong |
| Best Search Engine Rank | +0.232 | 5.4% | 160 | Strong |
| Host Backlinks | +0.222 | 4.9% | 791 | Strong |
| Wikipedia Citations | +0.196 | 3.8% | 508 | Confirmed |
| Wikidata | +0.154 | 2.4% | 249 | Confirmed |
| Homepage Keywords | +0.148 | 2.2% | 541 | Confirmed |
| Avg Search Engine Rank | +0.014 | 0% | 160 | Baseline |
Tracked domains
The 1,163 domains behind the "domains tracked" stat for Online Travel Agencies: every domain the LLM recommendation runs surfaced for this industry, across every persona, ranked by the same influence-weighted recommendation score the LLM Search Visibility report uses. Appearances counts how many times models recommended the domain across all runs. PageRank and Harmonic Centrality are the domain's current 0-100 authority in the Common Crawl web graph; 0 means the domain was not found in the graph. Click a domain name for its full site profile: authority history, backlink counts, and top backlink sources.
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LLM vs Fanout vs AI Search vs Organic
Pick a model per channel and compare recommendation patterns across LLM, fanout, AI Search, and organic results side by side.
→LLM Search Visibility
How this industry performs across the large language models sampled in this report.
→LLM Search+Fanout Visibility
The same LLM recommendation ranking, scoped to just the web-search-augmented (fanout) runs.
→LLM Fanout Queries
The exact web searches each LLM ran while answering this segment's questions, with overlap across models.
→AI Search Visibility
AI-powered search surfaces sit between traditional search and pure LLM chat.
→Organic Search Visibility
Backlink authority and on-page signals that drive traditional organic visibility.
→Bing Search Advertisers
Top and bottom advertisers on Bing (Google has no ads in this data), ranked by rank-weighted score.
→Organic Search: Suggested Terms
Suggested search terms from Google and Bing, ranked by rank-weighted score.
→Forum Search
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→News Search
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→Video Search
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→Short Video Search
Domains appearing in Google short-video results for this segment's queries, by rank-weighted score and appearances.
→Top Wikipedia Pages
The Wikipedia articles where this segment's topics and brands appear, plus articles with zero brand presence.
→Knowledge Graph Entities
The Wikidata entities matching this segment's topics and brands, and which brands have no entity at all.
→Top Subreddits
The communities where this segment's topics and brands get discussed, ranked by submissions and comments.
→Reddit Activity Trends
Monthly Reddit activity for this segment's topics and brands, from 2005 through mid-2026.
→Top Domains on Reddit
The websites Reddit links to and mentions alongside this segment's topics, in comments and submissions.
→Open Web Presence
Domains appearing together with this segment's topics across billions of crawled web pages.
→Top Backlink Sources
The websites linking to the most tracked domains in this segment, from the web link graph.
→Content Phrases
Top phrases LLMs associate with this industry or persona, ranked by recommendation strength.
→UGC Questions & FAQs
Questions people are asking, mined from forum, news, and video result titles, with the URLs each question appears on.
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→Research: Trade Journals
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